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WARNING: GORY IMAGES This video clip is circulating big time on the Chinese internet right now, and has received over 470,000 hits and 5,000 comments on Youku within less than a day. And it is just plain disgusting. A security guard at Wenzhou University beats a helpless dog to death as students videotape...
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This is just waaaaay too cute. If these three videos aren't enough for you, then hop over to Life in the Fast Lane for more amazing pictures and videos of baby pandas from day 1 to day 120 of their birth that made us keel over from an overdose of cuteness. Have a fabulous Thursday, Shanghai.
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This week's Adoptable Pet from Second Chance Animal Aid, Shanghaiist's adopted animal charity. From the SCAA: Peanut, is just over a year old and was found when she was just a tiny kitten and needed to be bottle fed. She is very affectionate and enjoys sitting on the sofa with you. Sometimes she likes...
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The Pet Paradise Asia 2007 expo opened in pavilion W5 of the New International Expo Center to commercial representatives early on Thursday , and to the public on Saturday for a second two-day run. When Shanghaiist dropped by yesterday afternoon, the place was hopping — booths retailing pet supplies and...
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This week's Adoptable Pet from Second Chance Animal Aid, Shanghaiist's adopted animal charity. From the SCAA: Bitsy is an eight-year-old Australian silk terrier cross. She was brought to China when her family moved here from Australia and unfortunately, the family had to return to Australia unexpectedly...
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This week's Adoptable Pet from Second Chance Animal Aid, Shanghaiist's adopted animal charity. From the SCAA: Jill is an adorable three-month-old brown tabby. She was just a few days old when she and her sister, Jackie, (now adopted) were discovered by two children playing just outside their compound...
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We told you about the "man-eating catfish" (which was actually a whale shark), the man with the world's largest hand , the two-headed freaks in China , the world's tallest woman Yao Defen , the world's tallest man Bao Xishun (who has since been overtaken by a Ukrainian) and the moment he met the world...
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Pigs are back in the headlines once again, and with a vengeance. Here is an interesting juxtapose of three pig-related news stories found via the informative China Digital Times . We first read on the Beijing News that a "Zero-Profit Pork Alliance" consisting of about 150 supermarkets in Chongqing that...
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This week's Adoptable Pet from Second Chance Animal Aid, Shanghaiist's adopted animal charity. From the SCAA: Jude is a one-year-old male cat found at a construction site three months ago where he had been surviving only on the scraps of food kind people left out for him. When his foster mom found him...
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Even as the majority of the domestic and international press crowned Inner Mongolia native and Shanghai resident Duo Zirong for her courage to stop the truck and "save" 800 cats from the food trade on July 7, dissenting voices have been raised with regards to the character of this women. And some have...
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This week's Adoptable Pet from Second Chance Animal Aid, Shanghaiist's adopted animal charity: Lucky is a lovable long-haired cat. Caring for his beautiful coat and keeping your house relatively hair-free means regular brushing – which he's happy to sit still for. He's 2.5 years old, neutered and vaccinated...
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Whenever there is a crisis or a natural calamity, there are the people who lose money and then there are the entrepreneurs. It seems enterprising businessmen have decided to cash in on an outbreak of rodents in the Dongting Lake area in Hunan province which saw an estimated 2 billion mice on the run...
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Last Friday, over 800 cats were rescued in Shanghai's Xinzhuang area , where they were about to be shipped to Guangzhou to meet their maker. However, local cat lovers here in Shanghai informed the police , resulting in a stand-off between the cat-lovers and the cat meat shippers that lasted several hours...
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Shanghaiist has been super-busy of late, and to save time and sanity, we have started spending a lot more time in Shanghai's fleet of taxis. One experience that added to the boredom of our long and usually uneventful taxi trip has been the looping of...