Puppy taught to smoke by 'bad pet owner'

[Crystal Clarity]

Picture of Puppy at link. He's cute except for the cig in his mouth. :-(

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/839894-puppy-taught-to-smoke-by-bad-pet-owner

A pet owner in China has been accused of animal cruelty after he taught his new puppy to smoke cigarettes - with the result that the dog now smoke a pack a day.

Little Black, the puppy who was taught to smoke by owner Zeng Ziguang (Picture: Quirky China News / Rex Features)...23-year-old chef Zeng Ziguang said that he thought it would be funny to teach Little Black, his new puppy, to smoke when he bought him six months ago.

He said: 'At the beginning he hated the smell a lot. Then I trained him to get used to it by puffing the smoke onto his face frequently.'

Zeng, of Wuchang in Hubei Province, central China, used treats of food to train Little Black to put the cigarette in his mouth. Within a month, he says, the puppy was smoking.

'Now it can smoke a pack a day,' Zeng boasted.

But other residents of Wuchang haven't seen the supposedly 'funny' side of giving a puppy a deadly addiction, accusing Zeng - fairly reasonably, it has to be said - of being a 'bad pet owner'.

[alphafemale]

1. Dogs can pucker?

And inhale?

Really?

I think you just got your ass kicked by the internet crazy rumor train.

:rofl:

[Crystal Clarity]

2. That must mean NBC news did too

Which is where I first heard of it. Of course we know that the MSM often does get things wrong...Bush propaganda re: Iraq after 9/11 (exhibit A)

So you may be right. :hi: