Posted on 06/06/2026 1:47:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A dog famous in China for traveling around with its owner was reportedly stolen, sold for less than $30 and eaten, according to media reports from Asia.
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that the dog’s name was Chutou and that he was an eight-year-old border collie who gained over a million followers on China’s version of TikTok, Douyin, for accompanying his owner, identified by multiple outlets simply as “Guo,” on journeys across China over many years.
Guo, according to SCMP, took a solo trip to Georgia last month and left Chutou behind in the care of his father at his home in the central Chinese province of Henan. The outlet reported that, on May 11, Guo’s father took Chutou with him to work in the family’s fields, and that’s when he went missing.
Frantic, Guo immediately cut his trip short and came back to China to look for Chutou, and surveillance footage was eventually obtained that showed “two strangers taking the dog on an electric bike,” the South China Morning Post reported.
“He was later told that Chutou had been sold to a dog meat restaurant for 180 yuan [$27 USD] and the pet had been eaten.”
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Anyone who kills a dog should have the same fate.
Another Reason to hate the communist Chinese
I hate everybody.
Yep. Family.
Even Jon Sumrall?
Kagogi
The Chinese will eat anything they can subdue long enough to slaughter and cram in their mouth. Yes, that includes cooking cats and dogs alive. They also like to skewer a fish thru its gills and lower everything but the head into hot oil just long enough that the fish is cooked but still flopping its tail when presented at table.
It’s a dog eat dog world.
🐶 🌭🇨🇳
There’s an old joke about two foreigners who visit America and decide to try “hot dog.” They purchase two hotdogs from a street vendor. After each is handed his hotdog, they both take a long look at them and one finally asks the other, “What part of the dog did you get?”
No they are not.
I saw the headline and assumed this was in Springfield, Ohio. 🤷♀️
5,000 years of civilization...
Collie sushi is pricey. Tastes kinda like spotted owl.
https://youtube.com/shorts/3bAXfh0MaAs?si=3zAW94KrrCwRhj86
Family Guy take on eating dogs. 😉
Poor pooch.
I’d be wanting to go John Wick on everybody involved.
I saw this yesterday on The China Show. Sad, I feel for the guy, and his dog.
The chinese rrzlly have very little feelings for animals at all. Not even humane practices and ethics.
Yeah, looks more like an Australian Shepherd. Poor little guy.
Only in China! (I thought this was a Bee story.)
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