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To Save or to Sleep: Stray Dogs in Beijing

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Simplified Chinese
为了放手的出手（一）

那天，我和朋友在商场吃完饭出来，看见一堆人围着一只抽搐的小狗，有位墨镜大姐
抚摸着它。原来这只狗是流浪狗，在墨镜大姐走出商场时默默跟她走了几步，随后就
不动了，墨镜大姐想把狗狗送到宠物医院，无奈围观的人都不知道附近的宠物医院在
哪儿。
商场保安说，我们已经报警了，等警察来处理吧。墨镜大姐很激动——我不让警察动
它！警察只会把狗狗打晕不知道扔到哪里，我亲眼见过的！我不知是被她吓到还是感
动了，说，我知道二里庄有个宠物医院，但是走路太远了，我们打车去吧。墨镜大姐
说，北京出租车拒载动物，更别提公车了，咱走过去吧。说完抱起小狗就动身了。我
有点不知所措，但也动身了。老实说我不是一个保护动物的身体力行者，虽然也曾拒
绝吃爸爸打猎带回来的各种肉，但主要原因是觉得不好吃。不过我又信命，有些事既
然在你生命中发生了，就积极参与吧。

其实我也不知道二里庄的宠物医院在哪，不过在北京谁又知道哪在哪呢。小狗奄奄一
息地躺在大姐怀里，一直抽搐，大眼睛可怜巴巴地看着你。大姐疼惜地说，狗狗真可
怜——尽管大姐是个“大人”，她还一直用“狗狗”来称呼所有的狗。她说她已经救助了不
知道多少条流浪狗了，现在家里的狗狗就是车祸幸存者，前前后后花前前后后花了一
万多的手术费治疗。以前把狗狗放在宠物医院，给钱让医院照顾它，结果医院根本不
管，把狗狗关在笼子里，吃喝拉撒都在那儿。结果狗狗染了一身病，又得出钱治。后
来，干脆把狗狗接回家自己养，虽然累点儿，但放心。她说，她住的小区里有好些流
浪狗，平时她也去喂喂它们，最近有条狗生了几个狗崽，她家没法养了，只好找朋友
2 寄养。这不是长久之计，但就是找不到愿意收留的人。
我差点儿脱口而出说“我愿意”，但一方面想到房东不让养宠物，另一方面，由于北漂
生活不稳定，我无法保证照顾它的一生，我甚至无法保证照顾它的童年。这点大姐也
同意，而且她还坚持，如果不能保证长期照顾狗狗，就不要养，狗狗经不起折腾。

我们走了半个多小时，终于找到了那家宠物医院。
大姐在路上说，这个狗狗的情况不容乐观，不行就进行安乐死。我的朋友听了觉得不
可思议，中国的动物生存状况怎么这样糟？这是一条生命，怎么可以轻易放弃？大姐
说，它现在这样活着更痛苦，还不如解脱。

Traditional Chinese
為了放手的出手（一）

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那天，我和朋友在商場吃完飯出來，看見一堆人圍著一隻抽搐的小狗，有位墨鏡大姐
撫摸著它。原來這只狗是流浪狗，在墨鏡大姐走出商場時默默跟她走了幾步，隨後就
不動了，墨鏡大姐想把狗狗送到寵物醫院，無奈圍觀的人都不知道附近的寵物醫院在
哪兒。
商場保安說，我們已經報警了，等員警來處理吧。墨鏡大姐很激動——我不讓員警動
它！員警只會把狗狗打暈不知道扔到哪里，我親眼見過的！我不知是被她嚇到還是感
動了，說，我知道二裏莊有個寵物醫院，但是走路太遠了，我們打車去吧。墨鏡大姐
說，北京計程車拒載動物，更別提公車了，咱走過去吧。說完抱起小狗就動身了。我
有點不知所措，但也動身了。老實說我不是一個保護動物的身體力行者，雖然也曾拒
絕吃爸爸打獵帶回來的各種肉，但主要原因是覺得不好吃。不過我又信命，有些事既
然在你生命中發生了，就積極參與吧。

其實我也不知道二裏莊的寵物醫院在哪，不過在北京誰又知道哪在哪呢。小狗奄奄一
息地躺在大姐懷裏，一直抽搐，大眼睛可憐巴巴地看著你。大姐疼惜地說，狗狗真可
憐——儘管大姐是個“大人”，她還一直用“狗狗”來稱呼所有的狗。她說她已經救助了不
知道多少條流浪狗了，現在家裏的狗狗就是車禍倖存者，前前後後花前前後後花了一
萬多的手術費治療。以前把狗狗放在寵物醫院，給錢讓醫院照顧它，結果醫院根本不
管，把狗狗關在籠子裏，吃喝拉撒都在那兒。結果狗狗染了一身病，又得出錢治。後
來，乾脆把狗狗接回家自己養，雖然累點兒，但放心。她說，她住的社區裏有好些流
浪狗，平時她也去喂喂它們，最近有條狗生了幾個狗崽，她家沒法養了，只好找朋友
寄養。這不是長久之計，但就是找不到願意收留的人。
我差點兒脫口而出說“我願意”，但一方面想到房東不讓養寵物，另一方面，由於北漂
生活不穩定，我無法保證照顧它的一生，我甚至無法保證照顧它的童年。這點大姐也
同意，而且她還堅持，如果不能保證長期照顧狗狗，就不要養，狗狗經不起折騰。
我們走了半個多小時，終於找到了那家寵物醫院。
3 大姐在路上說，這個狗狗的情況不容樂觀，不行就進行安樂死。我的朋友聽了覺得不
可思議，中國的動物生存狀況怎麼這樣糟？這是一條生命，怎麼可以輕易放棄？大姐
說，它現在這樣活著更痛苦，還不如解脫。

Pinyin
wèile fàngshǒu de chūshǒu (yī)
nàtiān, wǒ hé péngyou zài shāngchǎng chī wán fàn chūlai, kànjiàn yī duī rén wéizhe
yī zhī chōuchù de xiǎogǒu, yǒu wèi mòjìng dàjiě fǔmō zhe tā. yuánlái zhè zhī gǒu shì
liúlànggǒu, zài mòjìng dàjiě zǒuchū shāngchǎng shí mòmò gēn tā zǒu le jǐ bù,
suíhòu jiù bùdòng le, mòjìng dàjiě xiǎng bǎ gǒugou sòng dào chǒngwù yīyuàn,
wúnài wéiguān de rén dōu bù zhīdào fùjìn de chǒngwù yīyuàn zài nǎr. shāngchǎng
bǎoān shuō, wǒmen yǐjīng bàojǐng le, děng jǐngchá lái chǔlǐ ba. mòjìng dàjiě hěn
jīdòng ----wǒ bù ràng jǐngchá dòng tā! jǐngchá zhǐ huì bǎ gǒugou dǎ yūn bù zhīdào

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rēngdào nǎlǐ, wǒ qīnyǎn jiànguo de! wǒ bùzhī shì bèi tā xiàdào hái shì gǎndòng le,
shuō, wǒ zhīdào èrlǐzhuāng yǒu ge chǒngwù yīyuàn, dànshì zǒulù tài yuǎn le,
wǒmen dǎ chē qù ba. mòjìng dàjiě shuō, Běijīng chūzūchē jùzài dòngwù, gèng bié tí
gōngchē le, zán zǒu guòqù ba. shuō wán bàoqǐ xiǎogǒu jiù dòngshēn le. wǒ yǒu
diǎn bùzhīsuǒcuò, dàn yě dòngshēn le. lǎoshí shuō wǒ bù shì yī ge bǎohù dòngwù
de shēntǐlìxíng zhě, suīrán yě céng jùjué chī bàba dǎliè dài huílai de gèzhǒng ròu,
dàn zhǔyào yuányīn shì juéde bù hǎochī. búguò wǒ yòu xìn mìng, yǒuxiē shì jìrán
zài nǐ shēngmìng zhōng fāshēng le, jiù jījí cānyù ba.
qíshí wǒ yě bù zhīdào èrlǐzhuāng de chǒngwù yīyuàn zài nǎ, búguò zài Běijīng shéi
yòu zhīdào nǎ zài nǎ ne. xiǎogǒu yǎnyǎnyīxī de tǎng zài dàjiě huái lǐ, yīzhí chōuchù,
dà yǎnjīng kěliánbābā de kànzhe nǐ. dàjiě téngxī de shuō, gǒugou zhēn kělián
----jǐnguǎn dà jiě shì ge "dàren", tā huán yīzhí yòng "gǒugou" lái chēnghu suǒyǒu de
gǒu. tā shuō tā yǐjīng jiùzhù le bù zhīdào duōshao tiáo liúlàng gǒu le, xiànzài jiālǐ de
gǒugou jiùshì chēhuò xìngcúnzhě, qiánqiánhòuhòu huā le yīwàn duō de shǒushù fèi
zhìliáo. yǐqián bǎ gǒugou fàngzài chǒngwù yīyuàn, gěi qián ràng yīyuàn zhàogu tā,
jiéguǒ yīyuàn gēnběn bùguǎn, bǎ gǒugou guān zài lóngzi lǐ, chīhēLā sā dōu zài nàr,
jiéguǒ gǒugou rǎn le yī shēn bìng, yòu děi chū qián zhì. hòulái gāncuì bǎ gǒugou jiē
huíjiā zìjǐ yǎng, suīrán lèi diǎn, dàn fàngxīn. tā shuō tā zhù de xiǎoqū lǐ yǒu hǎoxiē
liúlàng gǒu, píngshí tā yě qù wèi wèi tāmen. zuìjìn yǒu tiáo gǒu shēng le jǐ ge
gǒuzǎi, tā jiā méifǎ yǎngle, zhǐhǎo zhǎo péngyou jìyǎng. zhè bù shì chángjiǔ zhī jì,
dàn jiùshì zhǎo bù dào yuànyì shōuliú de rén.
wǒ chādiǎnr tuōkǒuérchū shuō "wǒ yuànyì". dàn yī fāngmiàn xiǎng dào fángdōng bù
ràng yǎng chǒngwù, lìng yī fāngmiàn, yóuyú běipiāo shēnghuó bù wěndìng, wǒ wúfǎ
bǎozhèng zhàogu tā de yīshēng, wǒ shènzhì wúfǎ bǎozhèng zhàogu tā de tóngnián.
zhè diǎn dà jiě yě tóngyì, érqiě tā hái jiānchí, rúguǒ bù néng bǎozhèng chángqī
4 zhàogu gǒugou, jiù bùyào yǎng, gǒugou jīngbuqǐ zhēteng.
wǒmen zǒu le bàn ge duō xiǎoshí, zhōngyú zhǎodào le nà jiā chǒngwù yīyuàn.
dàjiě zài lùshang shuō zhège gǒugou de qíngkuàng bùrónglèguān, bù xíng jiù
jìnxíng ānlèsǐ. wǒ de péngyou tīng le juéde bùkěsīyì, Zhōngguó de dòngwù
shēngcún zhuàngkuàng zěnme zhèyàng zāo, qícì zhè shì yī tiáo shēngmìng, zěnme
kěyǐ qīngyì fàngqì? dàjiě shuō, tā xiànzài zhèyàng huózhe gèng tòngkǔ, huán bùrú
jiětuō.

English
One day, after a friend and I came out from eating in a mall, we saw a group of
people surrounding a small twitching puppy, which was supported by a woman
wearing dark sunglasses. As it turns out, this dog was a street dog. When Ms.
Sunglasses went out to the mall, it trailed behind her for several steps, and then

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refused to move. Ms. Sunglasses wanted to send the dog to the veterinarian, but
none of the bystanders knew where the neighborhood vet was. All security said was
they'd already called the police and suggested letting them deal with it, but Ms.
Sunglasses grew agitated and said she'd never let the police touch her dog. She
said she knew the police would knock the dog unconscious and just throw it, "God
knows where," telling us she'd seen this herself! I don't know whether I was scared
or moved by her, but I said, "I know there's a veterinary hospital near Erlizhuang, but
it's too far to walk. Let's take a cab!" The lady in sunglasses said that Beijing cab
drivers refuse to take animals in their cabs, to say nothing of public buses. "So let's
walk," Ms. Sunglasses replied, and then she picked up the dog and started walking. I
didn't know what to do, but I also set off. To tell the truth, I'm not a staunch animal
activist, and although I did once refuse to eat any meat from a pig my father hunted
in the wild, the main reason was that I didn't think it tasted very good. But I do
believe in fate, and there are some things in life that are destined to happen, so you
might as well actively take part in them.
Actually, I didn't know where the Erlizhuang animal hospital was, but in Beijing, who
knows where anything is? The little puppy lay twitching in the woman's arms as if on
its last legs; its large eyes looking up pitifully at us. The woman mournfully talked
about how cute the dog was, and even though she was a grown up, she still kept
referring to all sorts of dogs as "doggie." She said that she'd already saved countless
stray dogs, that all of the "doggies" in her home were survivors of auto accidents,
and that she'd already spend more than ten thousand RMB on surgery to treat them.
Before, she'd taken her dogs to the veterinary hospital and given them money to
look after the dogs, but they didn't do anything but shut the dogs up in a cage, where
they would take care of all of their bodily functions. And so, as a result, the dogs
5 would fall sick and it would take more money to treat them. And so afterwards, she
simply took the dogs home and raised them herself. Although this was a bit more
tiring, she could relax. She said that in the apartment block where she lived, there
were a lot of stray dogs and she would often go out to feed them, and lately, there
was one dog that gave birth to a litter of puppies. She didn't have the space to raise
them, so she had to find friends to take care of them for a while. This wasn't a
long-term plan, as she couldn't find anyone to adopt them for life.
I almost blurted out, "I'll take one," but then I remembered that my landlord didn't
allow people to raise pets. It was just as well, because my semi-adrift life here in
Beijing wasn't settled, and I didn't have any way to guarantee that I could take care
of it for life. I didn't even have any way to guarantee I could take care of it through its
infancy. The older lady agreed, and she also insisted that if you couldn't guarantee
to take care of "doggie" for the long-term, you shouldn't raise one, and "doggie"
couldn't bear having multiple owners.
We walked for more than half an hour, and finally found that veterinary hospital.
The lady said that if the prognosis for the dog wasn't good, they would euthanize it.

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My friend heard this and felt really startled. How could the state of Chinese animal
life be this awful? This was a life after all, and how could anyone throw it away so
cavalierly? And so the older lady said that it would be in more pain living like this,
and it would be better just to let it go.

Vocabulary
Simplified Traditional Pinyin English
抽搐 抽搐 chōuchù to twitch
奄奄一息 奄奄一息 yǎn yǎn yī xī to be on one's last legs
可怜巴巴 可憐巴巴 kělián bābā pitifully
幸存者 幸存者 xìngcúnzhě survivor
吃喝拉撒 吃喝拉撒 chīhēlāsā to eat, drink, and go to
the washroom
狗崽 狗崽 gǒuzǎi puppy
寄养 寄養 jìyǎng to place in care of
折腾 折騰 zhēteng to fuss
安乐死 安樂死 ānlèsǐ euthanasia
解脱 解脫 jiětuō to cast off

Vocabulary Sample Sentences

6 他发病的时候浑身的肌肉都会 tā fābìng de shíhou húnshēn When he got sick, the muscles
抽搐。 de jīròu dōu huì chōuchù. throughout his body all
twitched.
这位老人被送到医院的时候已 zhè wèi lǎorén bèi sòng dào When this old person was sent
经奄奄一息了。 yīyuàn de shíhou yǐjīng yǎn to the hospital, he was already
yǎn yī xī le. on his last legs.
那个狗狗一直可怜巴巴地看着 nà ge gǒugou yīzhí kěliánbābā This dog kept watching me
我。 de kànzhe wǒ. pitifully.
他是这次车祸的唯一幸存者。 tā shì zhè cì chēhuò de wéiyī He was the only survivor of the
xìngcúnzhě. car accident.
生病以后，他吃喝拉撒都不能 shēngbìng yǐhòu, tā After he fell ill, he was not able
自理。 chīhēlāsādōu bùnéng zìlǐ. to eat, drink, or go to the
washroom without help.
我家多了几个小狗崽。 wǒ jiā duō le jǐ ge xiǎo gǒuzǎi. My house has several
puppies.
我出差的时候把狗寄养在同学 wǒ chūchāi de shíhou bǎ gǒu When I went away on

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家里。 jìyǎng zài tóngxué jiālǐ. business, I placed my dog in

the care of a friend.
我的花被我折腾死了。 wǒ de huābèi wǒ zhēteng sǐ I fussed my plants to death.
le.
听说，安乐死只需要四十秒。 tīngshuō, ānlèsǐ zhǐ xūyào I've heard euthanasia only
sìshí miǎo. takes forty seconds.
我们什么时候才能从压力下解 wǒmen shénme shíhòu cái When we will be able to cast
脱出来？ néng cóng yālì xià jiětuō chūlái off our pressures?
?

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