a tibetan mastiff domestic dog has been offered in china for almost $2 million, a record stated wednesday, in what may be the maximum high priced dog sale ever.
a assets developer paid 12 million yuan ($1.nine million) for the one-yr-vintage golden-haired mastiff at a "luxury pet" fair tuesday inside the eastern province of zhejiang, the qianjiang night news pronounced.
"they have lion's blood and are top-of-the-range mastiff studs," the canine's breeder zhang gengyun was quoted as telling the paper, adding that every other pink-haired canine had offered for 6 million yuan.
large and every so often ferocious, with spherical manes lending them a passing resemblance to lions, tibetan mastiffs have become a prized fame symbol amongst china's rich, sending prices skyrocketing.
the golden-haired animal become 80 centimetres (31 inches) tall, and weighed 90 kilograms (nearly 200 pounds), zhang stated, adding that he changed into unhappy to promote the animals. neither was named within the record.
"natural tibetan mastiffs are very rare, just like our nationally treasured pandas, so the expenses are so excessive," he stated.
one purple mastiff named "huge splash" reportedly offered for 10 million yuan ($1.five million) in 2011, inside the maximum expensive canine sale then recorded.
the purchaser at the zhejiang expo turned into said to be a fifty six-year-antique property developer from qingdao who hopes to breed puppies himself, according to the report.
the newspaper quoted the owner of a mastiff breeding internet site as saying that closing year one animal offered for 27 million yuan at a honest in beijing.
but an enterprise insider surnamed xu advised the paper that the excessive costs can be the result of insider agreements amongst breeders to enhance their dogs' really worth.
"a whole lot of the sky-pricey deals are simply breeders hyping every different up, and no money genuinely adjustments fingers," xu said.
proprietors say the mastiffs, descendants of dogs used for looking by way of nomadic tribes in crucial asia and tibet, are fiercely unswerving and defensive.
Canine sells for nearly $2 million in china
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