How puppy smugglers feed Hong Kong's love affair with big dogs

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Getting an introduction to Tiger - a 176 pound (80 kilogram) Tibetan mastiff kept on the roof space of a cramped five-story village house in Hong Kong's New Territories -- is a complicated process.

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The current vogue for Tibetan mastiffs in mainland China -- where the nouveau riche have reportedly paid as much as US$750,000 for prize-winning specimens -- has reached Hong Kong, though keeping big dogs in a city where the average flat size is just 484 square feet (45 square meters) presents a dangerous challenge.

Tiger's owners, who did not want to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue, know only too well how much trouble a Tibetan mastiff can cause.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/26/world/asia/hong-kong-dogs/index.html?hpt=hp_c4

 

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Poor dogs. They're a bit too big really.