No, you didn’t read that wrong. It’s not a load of extra digits in there…this dog changed hands for £1.2m.
How did this happen?
In a story that looks like it really should be a hoax, a supposedly ‘super rare’ Tibetan Mastiff was sold at a so-called ‘luxury pet fair’ in China.
The dog was apparently purchased by a Chinese property.
The dog’s breeder, Zhang Gengyun (who is definitely not a charlatan infused with greed and holder of a first class degree in spouting total bullsh*t) had this stream of nonsense to say about the dogs when speaking to Qianjiang Evening News:
“They have lion’s blood and are top-of-the-range mastiff studs,”
Call me a cynic, but I reckon they’d don’t have any lions blood in them. What with lions being a cat and this being a dog.
“Pure Tibetan mastiffs are very rare, just like our nationally treasured pandas, so the prices are so high,” he further spouted.
Pandas are, of course, a species of animal. Dog breeds are all of the same species.
The trend for so-called ‘designer’ dogs is a growing one as, it would appear, there are gullible suckers just waiting to throw their money at anyone who claims to be selling something ‘rare’. Back in 2006, K9 Magazine reported: