【文稿】为狗好：城市别养狗？

Heyang: The property management company of a residential building in Jilin Province has announced it will cut the water and power supply for pet owners only. Of course it will not be taken in easily by some residents. Is it suitable for the property management department to take such a measure?吉林省松原市一居民楼的物业贴出了以下告示：禁止饲养携带宠物，违者停水停电。物业采取这样的措施禁止养宠物合适吗？Heyang: What happened and what’s up with this controversial rule?Mark: Well, I am a dog owner. Em, again, I’m gonna sound like a hypocrite. But I’m gonna actually tell you why I’m not. I don’t think it’s right to keep dogs locked up for 22 hours a day in apartments in Beijing. Now the reason why i say, I’m gonna justify me keeping a dog but I don’t do that. I lived very close to the building where we are now, right? I go back to see my dog every lunch time and then I walk that dog at least two or three times a day. It maybe takes two and a half hours at least to walk him all together in the day. But that still means he’s locked up for at least 21 and a half for a day, hmm, with no one there. It’s just not right, in my opinion. And so, I mean, some people like to keep pets locked up like that. I don’t think that’s right either. Cats are made to hunt and forage, what’s why they are on this planet. But dogs are, it’s an outdoor creature, a dog. So I know it sounds a bit hypocritical but I devote a lot of time trying to make that dog’s life as pleasant as possible. My view is that it’s good that they are not letting people keep dogs because it’s perhaps not suitable with the way we live today. I know somebody who told me they know of someone with an adult dog that has never been outside.Heyang :Yeah.Mark：That’s just pain cruel.Heyang: So you’re saying it’s ok, the basically what this announcement sounds like is very controversial, because it’s saying pretty much that no dogs period .Yeah, because the cutting off power supply all that staff is just the reaction to when they people with pets.Mark: but the thing is there might be people like me devoted to their dog and do all they can and spend all their time with their dog and walking it and looking after it properly. But i think ,so many people, just think a dog is a commodity or a toy, it’s not, it’s living creature that has real emotions and they can get sad and depressed, and it’s a full time job you know, second only to raising a child I suspect. So i don’t know cutting people’s electricity and water off. That sounds like it’s probably illegal to me but maybe they pass the local law. It’s not. It seems very unreasonable thing to do for me to cut off the power and water.Luoyu: well definitely, i think ,when it comes to cutting off the water supply and electricity its illegal because it will do harm to the local residents, not only the dog owners but all the people there. So definitely, I think it’s wrong. However, from the other perspective, why the property management department has been doing so I think it’s because of several reasons. For one thing probably because the dog has been barking all the time and when it comes to sanitation problem they defecate and then they run away. The dog owners won’t care about their poop there. Mark: That depends where they poops, in my opinion, yeah, if it poops on pavement, I think you should take a little bag of which I have many and picked it up, but if it poops in the woods or something...in fact that I was just talking to a friend of mine just yesterday who said a real big problem where he’s from which is in Britain in a rural area is people has been given this propaganda over the years that you must pick up dog poop. So what happens is that when they go to the rural area, they put the poop in a plastic bag and tie it up. But there’s no bin or anything to put it in. So they hang it in a tree. And, you go there and it’s like a forest of dog poop trees. (laugh)Heyang: And they all kept ever fresh in those little baggies. Maek: Sometimes the dog poop needs to be allowed biodegrade, as nature intended, it’s all about context and where the dog poops I think whether you pick it up or not.Heyang: Yeah, I think wouldn’t be great if all dogs owners are like Mark ,you are so caring for your little buddy, the dog,...Am i allow to say that ?Mark: yeah. Heyang: little buddy, that sounds totally American, your pal, ok, that’s American too...that little chap…Heyang: My mate, my mate, suddenly feeling very masculine. That’s a great thing and also you know having some good etiquettes when it comes to raising a dog. It’s just really important for those who live around you and hmm...this morning, it’s really funny when i was walking towards the subway to go to work, and then I saw this gigantic pile of poop and then I could clearly see the shoe size of the person who just walked on it. And when you see this on your pavement, you sort of just natural breed this resentment towards dog owners. It’s like, what is wrong with these people?Mark: You are quite right to be resentful towards the owners rather dogs. Because the dogs, well they don’t know, but actually, my dog always goes on to the grass to poop.Heyang: You taught him well. Mark: well I don’t know if I did. I did teach the dog to poop quickly if it’s raining by giving the dog a snack. As soon as he pooped, he got a snack. So now if it’s raining, he goes out there, he sees me with the snack, he poops immediately and then has the snack. He is the one who pulls me back home because he hates the rain.Heyang；All right, and that sounds like a beautiful love story between a human being and a dog. And that human being is my lovely friend Mr. Mark Griffiths.