Holy Smokes: A Puffin’ Pooch?!
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OMD. Now I think I can officially say I’ve seen everything.

There’s a story on DailyMailOnline about a lady in China named Mrs. Li who is worried about Treasure, her Cocker Spaniel.

smoking dog 1Why is she worried? Because Treasure smokes cigarettes.

The X-rays from a recent trip to the vet show a shadow on one of Treasure’s lungs, which could be a tumor. Her heart and liver are also bigger than they should be.

“She needs at least two cigarettes a day,” Li said. “I have to light one in the ashtray and let her stay beside to suck the smoke.”

Treasure picked up the filthy habit when she was just a little 5-month-old puppy. She also eats cigarette butts. Li says she swallows the tobacco and spits out the rest.

WAKE UP, MRS. LI!!

smoking dog 2Why are you letting your dog smoke?! Don’t you understand that it’s cruelty to animals? If you want to puff nasty cigarettes, that’s your problem – don’t make it Treasure’s too.

Here are a whole bunch of facts (101, just like the famous Dalmatians) about smoking you should read, especially this one: “Cigarette smoking has been identified as the most important source of preventable morbidity and premature mortality in the United States and the world.”

What that means is that you can live longer just by not smoking – both you and Treasure, too.

I know dogs aren’t supposed to beg, Mrs. Li, but please, please, PLEASE throw out those cancer sticks and get Treasure some bully sticks instead, ‘K?

Sure, us dogs are pack animals…but not that kind of pack.

PHOTOS: QuirkyChina.com

 
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