BEIJING — There once was a time, throughout the frenzied heights of China’s mastiff craze, once a droopy-eyed slobbering large like Nibble may need fetched $200,000 and all over up roaming the improved grounds of some coal tycoon’s residential district villa.
But Tibetan mastiffs area unit therefore 2013.
Instead, earlier this year Nibble and twenty a lot of unlucky mastiffs found themselves stuffed into metal chicken crates and packed onto a truck with a hundred and fifty alternative dogs. If not for a band of Peiping animal rights activists UN agency virtually threw themselves before of the truck, Nibble and also the rest would have all over up at a shambles in northeast China wherever, at roughly $5 a head, they'd are rendered into hot pot ingredients, fabric and also the lining for winter gloves.
