I just had an extremely odd conversation that tested my Chinese ability to the max. It actually took a long time before I fully grasped what was being said to me.
As you know, I have a dog and have become, for the first time in my life, a dog person. At night I take little Max for walks, clean up her poop, and hang out on the street with the other dog lovers. Tonight I sat down at a local 羊肉串place and ate shish kebobs, drank baijiu and had a nice long chat with the local dog fancier.
My dog doesn’t have an ID card (it’s expensive! about $125 for the first year. The local dog fancier told me that about 80% of the dogs in the hutong are illegal and unliscenced. Then he told me what he (from personal experience) knows about the consequences of cheaping out on the doggie ID. If I’m caught (and I have a friend who’s a cop here … it isn’t so much about getting caught as it is getting messed with) I will be stuck with a big fine ($600) ehich can be reduced to $25 if I beat my dog to death in front of the coppers. Crazy, huh?
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