One dog policy

I don't really understand your point here. Maybe it's my English knowledge to blame, I don't know. So, China has a one-dog policy. That sounds OK with me. They have a "one child policy" as well, why would we be surprised that Chinese people are not allowed to own more than a dog? What I don't understand is your second afirmation. What is disturbing? The fact that almost every house owns a dog? Or the fact they don't own more than one dog? Please, make me understand your point.

I love dogs. I live with my dogs in one roof. There are 3 of them and 4 newborn puppies. I don't think I would agree to that policy. I am presently staying in a village and nobody bothers what others do or own. But I'll be moving into a new townhouse and there I need to have a special license for my dogs. But that won't be a big problem to me as I have made the necessary arrangements to get the license.

Hmm... Well, given the population of China, I guess that policy has some merits to it. I mean, imagine not only the noise they'd make but also the poo :) Just one dog per person and that's at least 1.3 trillion dogs. With that many dogs, one case of rabies can be catastrophic.

Hello Staria and welcome to myLot! I have only one dog, and nobody forced me to stop at one. I think I can't take care properly of more than one dog. We live in a small apartment and there wouldn't be place for another dog. But I think that even if I had a larger apartment or even a house with a yard, I still wouldn't keep more than one dog. Though, I think that a law which forces people to have only one dog (or worse, only one child!) violates the human rights. The authorities could have made another law instead of this. One that should have force people to take care of their dogs (no matter how many they were), to punish hardly those who abandon dogs, to punish those who disturb their neighbors by letting their dogs bark uncontrolled or to roam free on streets.

Ok. I looked for an article about this and the reason given there was because there was a growing number of attacks on humans and a significant number of these resulted in fatal cases of rabies. So ok. I suppose if the Chinese thinks having a one-dog policy is a solution to that problem then that's fine. Elsewhere, however, it's probably not needed. We have 4 dogs right now, and each has his/her own 'territory' in the yard. They are actually our guards. We need them! =P And we love them hehe. =) As long as the owners can take care of their dogs properly, I don't see having more than one dog as a problem.

I own a dog too, as you can tell by my avatar. lol I do not agree though that you can only own 1 dog in your household. I did once own 2 dogs in my own. It should not matter how many dogs you have in your home imo. I am a totally dog freak. I love my dog, and I've always been raised around dogs. My mediate family has always had a dog in their lifetime. Small, and Large. It didn't matter. But, right now I've got a small lap dog. Which, is great. But, it shouldn't matter at how many dogs you want to own in your home. Heck, you have to take care of the puppy. So, I say get as many as you want. I know I would as long as I can care for them properly. I've seen this show here in my country where people get obsessed with dogs, and they have about up to 45 to a 100 dogs at one time. Yes, that's crazy, and going overboard. But, 2 or 4 is not bad at all. Those people they had a lot of mental problems, and I think that they were taking in the dogs as a cover-up or something, ya know?

As I know the policy was issued in some big cities in China,such as ShangHai and Guangzhou.If no limitation on it , it may turn to be a big society problem in the coming years. 1,as the expense of having the a dog is raising up,some family are not able to afford to have more dogs. 2,More dogs may mean that it is hard to manage them.It is risky and noisy for others if you take all your dogs together for a walk,especially in some crowded cities. In a word , I agree on this policy.It is fair and reasonable to both human beings and dogs.

as i read the article. i think china is suffering a saturation of dogs right now. Due to growing number of attacks on humans, many dog-inflicted were reported. In-order to minimize or stop the saturation, i think thats the right way to do to implement the one dog policy.

i love dogs,but i've never kept one.i agree with this policy,because the population of china is so large,more dogs will cause more social problems.