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How Many Doodles Could You Buy With $582,000?
THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE DOG:
TODAY staff
updated 9:05 a.m. CT, Fri., Sept . 11, 2009
It sounds like a shaggy dog story, but it isn’t. A Tibetan Mastiff is believed to have broken the record as the world’s most expensive dog — sold to a young Chinese millionaire for a mind-blowing $582,000.
The owner, known only as Ms. Wang, traveled to Qinghai province of northwest China to purchase the 18-month old dog, named Yangtze River Number Two.
Yangtze came home to an A-List entrance at Xi’an airport in China’s Shaanxi province, where he was reportedly greeted by hordes of dog lovers and picked up on Wednesday by a motorcade of 30 black Mercedes-Benz cars.
“Gold has a price, but this Tibetan Mastiff doesn’t,” she was quoted as saying to Chinese publications.
Tibetan Mastiffs, a fairly rare breed, typically cost about $2,000 in the West, but are more expensive in China where they are valued for their skills as guard dogs.
Ms. Wang has plans to mate Yangtze with another Tibetan Mastiff that she owns, according to Chinese reports.
A family in Florida previously held the record, paying $155,000 for a Labrador named Lancelot Encore, cloned from their dead dog, Lancelot.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32797517/ns/today-today_pets_and_animals/?gt1=43001
For once, I am speechless.
TODAY staff
updated 9:05 a.m. CT, Fri., Sept . 11, 2009
It sounds like a shaggy dog story, but it isn’t. A Tibetan Mastiff is believed to have broken the record as the world’s most expensive dog — sold to a young Chinese millionaire for a mind-blowing $582,000.
The owner, known only as Ms. Wang, traveled to Qinghai province of northwest China to purchase the 18-month old dog, named Yangtze River Number Two.
Yangtze came home to an A-List entrance at Xi’an airport in China’s Shaanxi province, where he was reportedly greeted by hordes of dog lovers and picked up on Wednesday by a motorcade of 30 black Mercedes-Benz cars.
“Gold has a price, but this Tibetan Mastiff doesn’t,” she was quoted as saying to Chinese publications.
Tibetan Mastiffs, a fairly rare breed, typically cost about $2,000 in the West, but are more expensive in China where they are valued for their skills as guard dogs.
Ms. Wang has plans to mate Yangtze with another Tibetan Mastiff that she owns, according to Chinese reports.
A family in Florida previously held the record, paying $155,000 for a Labrador named Lancelot Encore, cloned from their dead dog, Lancelot.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32797517/ns/today-today_pets_and_animals/?gt1=43001
For once, I am speechless.
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Comment by LuvMyAbby&Kaela on September 12, 2009 at 1:00pm
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Not only is she wealthy....she is a certifiable lunatic! It is painful to hear about such waste! I watched a wedding show once and the people (not famous or anything - just rich and sinfully spoiled imo) had a $25,000 wedding cake. That wasnt the focus of the show, it was just mentioned in passing. What a waste of money! Even if I was filthy stinking rich, my own inner scruples would cause me to be to ashamed and embarrassed to waste money so frivolously when there are suffering impoverished people and starving babies on this planet!
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Comment by Karen & Lucy on September 12, 2009 at 11:05am
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I think that is crazy
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Comment by Linda,Yankee & Finn on September 12, 2009 at 10:54am
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Wow! That dog has it made.
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Comment by Michele Barton on September 12, 2009 at 10:20am
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I wonder how much the puppies will go for.
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