The Chinese city of Shanghai has announced a new rule modelled on the country’s one-child policy. From next May a one-dog policy will be introduced, and more than 600,000 un-licensed dogs will be declared illegal. The new regulation has been the subject of long and heated debate among the city’s lawmakers.
AFP reports, rampant barking, unscooped poop and the growing risk of dog attacks means the law will be just one pooch per family in the city of Shanghai. Dog owners must hand over their pets’ puppies to government-approved adoption agencies before the pups reach three months.
Communist China is slowly coming around to the deeply bourgeois idea of man’s best friend as a pet, but the same population rules that limit parents to one offspring will soon be applied to dog owners when the law comes into force from May 15.
