More and more urban Chinese with disposable income are also keeping dogs as pets. Cui, the general manager of the dog farm and once an avid consumer of dog meat, said he has stopped eating dogs after working with them. Dogs have intelligence. They're not like livestock. This is one of the reasons dog breeding has never developed over these thousands of years.
Dogs are smarter than other animals and they have feelings.
They can understand people. But Zhang, who has a German shepherd as a pet, sees no conflict between raising dogs and eating them. Although the dogs are not often let out to play on the large grassy yard, Zhang, Cui and Gao all seem to enjoy them. Gao asks workers to let two out so they can demonstrate to a visiting reporter how dog breeding occurs. But after 10 minutes of commanding and nudging and physically lifting of one dog on top of the other, the dog coupling was not to be.