Guangzhou residents rush to register their dogs

Guangzhou has issued more than 8,000 dogs licenses in the past month during a push to get owners to register their pets.

The figure was eight times more than an ordinary month before the city's public security and urban management authorities launched their licensing campaign in mid-August.

Urban patrol officers, known as chengguan, and police officers expanded patrols in major housing estates, parks, squares and other public places to see whether the owners had obtained or applied for dog licenses, according to the Guangzhou public security bureau.