World Dog Day

On August 26, the World Dog Day is celebrated, registered by the World Dog Alliance, an organization spread worldwide which, among other things, is also involved in trying to create laws to ban the consumption of dog meat in Asian countries.


The director of World Dog Alliance explained that the date of August 26 was chosen because in Cantonese the pronunciation of the numbers 9-26 is similar to that of the proverb "Gau yi luk", which translated would become something like "It's easy to make happy a dog" and "A dog makes people happy easily".