Pets no longer too bourgeois for average Chinese citizen

[SoCalDem]

Sun Jul 6, 8:59 AM ET

Mimi, a four-month old domestic cat, stands on watermelons at his owner's fruit stand, in China's financial hub of Shanghai, July 6, 2003. Pet ownership, once banned and labelled as too bourgeois for the common man during the Cultural Revolution, is once again gaining popularity as the population becomes more affluent thanks to more than a decade of growth and liberalization. REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV

[izzie]

1. Only rich countries have pets. They must begetting their.

Look at our own history. The ones you see in painting are with the rich as they were painted and the poor had working dogs if they had them. They had to earn their keep. An interesting read is the cats and the black death and why they had been killed off before. Do you recall reading Dick Worthington and his cat as a kid?