life - Pet dogs end violently in hotpot, say some

The Shanghai Daily does not surprise us too often with original reporting, but today they have a story. Nastly criminals are stealing dogs to provide local restaurants with enough dog-meat now the cold has Shanghai in its grip.
Here investigative reporting seems to have survived over the lazy copy-and-paste strategy that is too often used by journalists and webloggers alike.

The thefts — some of which involved armed attacks — have prompted the city's food authorities to warn the public not to buy dog meat from underground sales sources.

Snatched away from their owners while still on their leashes, poisioned and a threat for public health: hotpot itself might be under threat if we believe the story.

Over the past two weeks, Shanghai Daily received about a dozen calls from residents in Qingpu, Jiading and Baoshan districts, saying they lost their dogs to thieves, some of whom carried weapons and stole the animals in plain view of their owners.

Even the pets are not safe anymore in Shanghai. And what are the authorities doing: they advise to be careful in eating hotpot!. No poisoned dogs have been found in local restaurants yet. They might actually not exist.