Residents form a dog fighting team

时间：2007-09-15 06:29:38

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Chinanews, Shanghai, Sept 15 – As more and more people raise pet dogs today, the little animals sometimes cause a lot of troubles to community residents. Recently, residents living in the Jin Xiu Hua Cheng residential1 community in Shanghai have established their own dog fighting team to catch stray dogs so that they won't bother their life any more, the Shanghai Morning Post reported.

 

The action was actually initiated2 by a survey. In that survey, residents in the community center found that 80% of the dogs wandering in their community were stray dogs. The stray dogs had caused a lot of trouble to people living in the community center.

 

However, community residents' decision to set up their dog fighting team has aroused great controversy3 in society. Some dog lovers say that by protecting themselves, community residents should have a kind heart to these animals and should not chase them. However, experts support the residents, saying that their action can encourage more people to raise dogs in a more responsible way.

 

In Shanghai, 100,000 people raise their dogs all with dog-raising certificates. However, there are still 500,000 people in Shanghai who keep dogs without obtaining any certificates at all. Many dogs have not received rabies vaccine4 injection and when these dogs bite people, they might pass the rabies virus to humans. Apart from these, pet dogs have caused many other problems to people living in residential communities.

 

When community residents decided5 to set up their dog fighting team, many residents living in Jin Xiu Hua Cheng community applauded the idea. “It’s time for us to do something to solve the dog problems in our community,” said a resident surnamed Sun, who thought that the problems caused by dogs in her community could only be solved by strict measures. However, another resident in the community, Ms. Chen, said the dog fighting team should only take action after everybody in the community was informed, including dog lovers.

 
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1 residential kkrzY3     
adj.提供住宿的；居住的；住宅的
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  • The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
  • The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。
2 initiated 9cd5622f36ab9090359c3cf3ca4ddda3     
n. 创始人 adj. 新加入的 vt. 开始，创始，启蒙，介绍加入
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  • He has not yet been thoroughly initiated into the mysteries of computers. 他对计算机的奥秘尚未入门。
  • The artist initiated the girl into the art world in France. 这个艺术家介绍这个女孩加入巴黎艺术界。
3 controversy 6Z9y0     
n.争论，辩论，争吵
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  • That is a fact beyond controversy.那是一个无可争论的事实。
  • We ran the risk of becoming the butt of every controversy.我们要冒使自己在所有的纷争中都成为众矢之的的风险。
4 vaccine Ki1wv     
n.牛痘苗，疫苗；adj.牛痘的，疫苗的
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  • The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives.脊髓灰质炎疫苗挽救了数以百万计的生命。
  • She takes a vaccine against influenza every fall.她每年秋季接种流感疫苗。
5 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的
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  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

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