The 18-month-old dog, Yangtze No. 2, was bought by the Chinese woman after she visited the remote border region between Tibet and western Qinghai province.
The woman, who only revealed that her surname was Wang, flew home to Xi’an in north-western Shaanxi Province in China to be met by a convoy of 30 black Mercedes and a committee of local dog lovers holding a red banner welcoming Yangtze No. 2.
“Gold has a price, but this Tibetan Mastiff doesn’t,” she said.
Her search for a mate for the Tibetan Mastiff dog she already owns took her to Yushu, an isolated area that is known for its Tibetan Mastiff dog breeders, one of whom will now have enough cash to keep him in yak butter for the next millennium.
The breed can grow to a height of more than three feet and weigh over 50 kg, are renowned as the fiercest domestic pets in China. Bred as guard dogs in the high mountains of Tibet, the Mastiffs have become status symbols for the country’s new rich in recent years.
Straits Times reported that the Mastiff bought by the wealthy Chinese woman cost her about four million yuan (more than US$500,000).
Source: Telegraph
Previous newspaper reports have also suggested that a pair of such Mastiffs have killed tigers while guarding sheeps in the highlands of Nepal.
The Tibetan Mastiff also known as Tsang Khyi (large mastiff variety) and Do-khyi (generic for the mountain type) meaning ‘tied dog’, reflects its use as a home guard. In Mandarin Chinese, the name is 藏獒 (Zang’Ao), which literally means Tibetan Mastiff or Tibetan big ferocious dog. It can stand up to almost a meter tall and weighing over 100 kg. The breed is one of the world’s oldest purebred dogs, and is thought to date back more than 3,000 years.
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The dog looks like a black color lion…
yah lor. looks abit scary.
I don’ see what the big deal is with this dog, it looks like a cross between St. Bernard and Mastiff. She could have saved 500,000 and ordered a St. Bernard.
St Bernard is a considred a Chinese delicacy, and considering how Chinese treat most dogs and cats, clubbing skinning them alive the article reads like a joke, and is very poor PR. Go on YouTube and type word dog and china in one sentence and see what you get.
It should be dri butter, not yak butter.