Shanghai's Public Security Bureau said yesterday that the city's
people will not be allowed to walk their dogs on streets and any
other public areas any more in downtown Shanghai,
Shanghai
Morning News reported.
The regulation was designed to prevent dogs from damaging green
areas and other public facilities, environment and from hurting
people, officials said.
The city will tighten its control over raising dogs from now on,
officials said.
Dog raisers will also not be allowed to bring their pets onto buses
and other public vehicles if not for medical treatment or other
tests for their dogs.
They will also have to hang on their home doors the plates issued
by the bureau reading that the dog is "licensed".
One family will be allowed to raise one dog only, officials
said.
The authority will confiscate dogs from owners who break the rules
and will give a penalty of from 200yuan (US$24) to 1,000yuan.
Many dog raisers said the rules of stopping them from taking their
pets out of home almost result in no difference with stopping them
raising the pets, the newspaper said.
Experts from the Huangpu District Disease Prevention and Control
Center said in the city, cases of hurts by licensed dogs are not
few. Local residents better not raise dogs, they said, for the
hurts and infectious diseases caused by dogs are really hard to
prevent.
(easyday.com December 4,
2001)