Dog owners need training too

If you are one of the Beijingers who owns one or more of the almost 1 million dogs living in the city, the news that most of the 200,000 people who have been bitten were the dogs' owners should raise the hair on the back of your neck. According to those numbers, a dog owner in Beijing has a one in five chances of being bitten.

This suggests that dog owners are doing something wrong. Before lecturing Beijing's dog owners about the error of their ways, allow me to establish some credentials.

I spent five years running my own pet-sitting business. If there isn't such a service here yet, there will be.