Overview
- Surveillance footage and family accounts say Chutou was taken from his parents’ farm on May 11 and carried away on an electric bike.
- Owner Guo returned from travel and on May 26 located a man he accused of taking the dog and offered 10,000 yuan for its return but was told the dog had been mistaken for a stray.
- Guo was later told Chutou was sold to a restaurant for about 180 yuan, slaughtered the same day, and that the butcher had discarded the animal’s fur.
- Guo has reported the loss to Ningling County police and submitted evidence of Chutou’s commercial value to seek charges, but local theft rules may require proving a value above roughly 2,000 yuan to meet criminal thresholds.
- The case has provoked widespread grief on Douyin and renewed public debate about the dog-meat trade and the lack of a national companion-animal protection law ahead of the annual Yulin festival.