China’s bourgeois pooches

It turns out that Chairman Mao was right to worry about counter-revolutionary mutts.

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Zhou Tianxiao: creating a pet paradise
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One has always been grateful for the assistance of one's four-legged friends. The (now fast-approaching) "Glorious Twelfth" wouldn't be quite the same without a loyal canine companion to pick up the grouse and deposit them at your feet. Still, it seems ridiculous to take that gratitude too far. Celebrity miss Kylie Jenner, we learn, "is having a lavish doghouse built for her pooches complete with air-conditioning and a white picket fence", says Sameer Suri in the Daily Mail.

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