Chinese woman uses deterrent strategy to seek return of ‘sick, stupid and costly’ bulldog
A woman who reported her missing dog in eastern China wanted it back because it has “a very low IQ and it would cost a lot to raise it,” a local newspaper reports.
According to the Hangzhou-based Metro Express, a woman surnamed Chen posted the notice on a tree that read: “I lost a white one-year-old French bulldog (male). It has a very low IQ, so it must have been taken away by someone. The dog’s skin disease costs about 1,000 yuan a week for treatment. He also smells bad and has serious ear mites. You cannot afford to raise it, so please return him to me, thanks!
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Chen said she lost the dog on December 6, and the illness that she wrote in her post was not aimed at scaring away whoever took her dog ,because it was all true.
“It’s not easy to raise a French bulldog,” she said.
She added that the dog had a low IQ so couldn’t remember its way home if it wasn’t kept on a leash.
The report quoted a study conducted by Stanley Coren, a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, which studied levels of obedience at work among different dog breeds and ranked their IQs.