Originally posted by Kater
I *think* huacao is from Shanghai according his/her earlier postings. Lilith Cherry seems to believe this as well.

The website http://mypethome.chinapet.com/ seems to me to be a pet community with forums. I'm having trouble loading the page right now so I can't be entirely sure.

I recently saw a Chinese film titled "Kala, my dog" (2003) and it was then that I was first made aware of the unfortunate results of these expensive dog licensing laws. For example, I found a website stating that in Shanghai licenses for dogs living within the city proper are 2,000 RMB per dog per year (approx. $240) and licenses for dogs living outside of the city are 1,000 RMB per dog per year (approx. $120). According to the film, police will periodically go to parks or places where dogs and owners are gathered and check for licenses. If you cannot produce a current license upon request, your dog will immediately be confiscated by the police. These strict laws were put into effect in 1997 and seem to have been in response to increased incidences of dog bites and the fear of rabies. Lilith Cherry, huacao or others, please feel free to correct me if any of this is inaccurate.

Maybe huacao can give us more information about these pictures but even then I'm not sure there is really anything we can do about it. However, this does *not* mean I'm not willing to try.
Oh, thanks god!!Kater. After i read your response, i almost cry. Thank you for your understand of us. That is really true in this movie. When my dog was used to live in China, i have to pay $600 usd for buying his license annually. At that time my personal annual income was just $2000 usd, and i was the middle class, even the top part in the middle class, but the dog license almost cost me 1/3 of my annual income. Since I love my dog, and I didn't need support my family, so i paid for that. I knew it was unfair, but i took it. For some people, like the major charactorsin the movie, such high price is unaffordable to them. You can also see that it is very hard to get them out even you have to pay after they were caught. In this movie, the man wants to pay, but his wife doesn't want to pay. The wife's attitude is the represent of most of the dog owners, so one their dogs are caught, their normally give up.