A Chinesenarrate reason why they eat dog during Yulin Dog Festival. I'm Tony, a Chinese native. This guide I will introduce everything you want to know about Yulin dog festival, why Chinese eat dog meat, and some frequently asked questions.

I was raised in northeastern China, Heilongjiang. I was accompanied by the Chinese rural dog of my grandma when I was a little child, but she has no name.

I was very naughty playing with her all the time, but she was never upset with me or bored with me.

Every morning when I go to college, she followed me there; every afternoon when I was after college, she was always standing in front of my classroom, waiting for me right there.

I was afraid to cry when a black dog barked unfriendly to me. Without hesitation, she's fighting with that dog. Though harmed by that black dog, she wagged her tail and was pleased to defend me. She was my greatest childhood friend, and when I grew up, I swear I would defend her.

But I didn't have an opportunity to do that.

I was extremely sorrowful!

Every one who has lost a dog will know that feeling!

I wanted to fiercely beat my neighbor but I was just a child then. Why he did that?

She passed away for more than 20 years, but I still miss her.

Although eating dog is not very strange in China, but I will never do that. I wrote many Chinese and English articles to appeal people to stop hurting or eating dogs and cats.

You must think native Chinese are wild and bad here, yes? They eat cute dogs and cats.

As I am grown up and more mature, I know all the reasons.

Although many Chinese are rich nowadays, but they are very poor 20-30 years ago. They have the most of population in the world and many of them are lack of food.

So they eat everything in the nature. Not only will Chinese eat beef, pork, fish, but also dogs, cats, snakes, horses, donkeys, frogs, mice, fox and even locust.

Many foreigners in China must know Chinese eat animals' offals such as heart, kidney, gut, liver, head or something else.

You may have watched the TV show "Man vs. Wild" acted by Bear Grylls. I have to say, Chinese eat more varieties than Bear Grylls.

Here are some pictures of what Chinese eat:

1.Chicken's Claw


2.Kidney


3.Rabbit


4. Frog


5.Trepang


6. Scorpion


7.Pig's Brain


8.Duck's Neck


9. Cricket


10. Stink Egg


11.Cat Meat


12.Mice


13. Pig Feet


14. Balut


Now you know how crazy Chinese are.

It’s said that the rabbits are not under control and they destroyed the grasslands in Australia. It can not be happened in China. We will eat them up.

Even the crayfish which are extremely prolific, they are eaten up in China.

So dogs are just a kind of meat. They are not considered as a specific species for some people.

Now you may have a question:

Do All Chinese People Eat Dogs?

We have ancient sayings"再穷不杀看门狗、再饿不吃耕地牛" "子不嫌母丑，狗不嫌家贫", it means no matter how poor you are, you should not kill your dog, and your dog will never leave you away, just as the child will never consider their mom to be ugly even she is old.

But there are too many people in China, more than 1.5 billion. Someone foreigners find that 10,000 people eat dog, they post the discovery on every social media, broadcast it on the TV,spread it on the blog, raise awareness, hold public campaign, talk about it to anyone and everyone. Soon most of the people in your country believe that every Chinese abuse and eat dogs.

Some individuals in China truly eat dogs, but it's only a very small number of the 1.5 billion population base. When I was young, I often saw the news which people was shot in the US on TV, so I believed that the US was not a safe country, everyone there had a gun, and they would shoot me when they were not in a good mood.

Is that true?

Not really. But that's the job of Media. Although those who eat dogs and cats are very few number in China, the media would love to make it look like half of Chinese are eating dogs every day.

But the Yulin Dog Meat Festival is Holding Annually, What is it and Why not Stop it?

As a Chinese people, I have never heard about Yulin and Yulin Dog Festival 5 years ago. But the festival is taken place in 2009 for the first year, and now is holding every year in the summer.It is said that 10,000 dogs are eaten every year during the festival, cat meat and lychees are also available.

In fact, Yulin is a very small city in China, never will I know it if the city don't hold the dog festival. It's known by nearly every Chinese now just for the dogs.

Although eating dogs are not illegal in China, but the public are appealing not to do it any more. Almost all of my friends under 30 years old said straightforwardly they would resist this festival. The attitude are changing greatly these years.This festival is under huge pressure and many of the dogs were rescued these years.

Less and less dogs are ate and in my opinion, the dog festival will be stopped in the near future. It's a tendency of public.

What's the Chinese Attitude to Yulin Dog Festival?

Xiaoyun Yang, a not rich 65 year old Chinese woman, saved more than 3,500 dogs until now. She sold her house and spent all her money to buy dogs from Yulin.

In 2015, she spent 15,000 CNY to save 360 dogs and begged the resturant owner not to kill the dogs. Her story is influencing the whole China, and many Chinese donate money or go the same way to save dogs with her.

I know the westerns love dogs and see dogs as their friends. China is also a dog loving country, a lot of heart warming stories of saving dogs are spreading fast online and offline.

A poll taken by Horizon (by China Animal Welfare Association) shows that 70% Chinese have never eaten dog meat. In my opinion, the other 30% who have eaten dog are most more than 40 years old. My uncle actually ate dogs when he was young, and never have I heard my young friends eating dogs.

62% Chinese people think Yulin damages China's reputation, although it's not the fault of Yulin city, for most Yulin people also hate this festival.



What's the attitude of government about Eating dogs in China?

If it's illegal to eat dog meat, no one will eat dogs in China. However, it's just a dream that does not come true. There are no related policies to ban killing and eating dogs, for the government have to consider about the population's custom.

Source: Petpetbuy