{"id":542,"date":"2009-11-05T19:52:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T00:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/?p=542"},"modified":"2014-04-05T19:54:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T00:54:46","slug":"dogs-for-sale-by-ari-age-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"Dogs for Sale, by Ari (age 16)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dogs for Sale, by Ari (age 16)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Ari<\/a>

Ari prefers fresh coffee beans to dog.<\/p><\/div>\n

Americans generally see dogs as being man\u2019s best friend and house pet, but many Vietnamese have a slightly different idea of canine possibilities.\u00a0 We accidentally stumbled upon this discovery when looking for dinner in the town of Tam Duong.\u00a0 It was late for eating (7:00 is considered late there) and we could not find a place to eat.\u00a0 We were getting desperate for dinner when we saw a light shining out from between two closed shops – YES, it was a restaurant.\u00a0 We sat down at a table and were, relatively quickly, brought our meat plate.\u00a0 We thought that we were served pork, so we instantly began to grub.\u00a0 After chewing the spiced, porkish meat for a few minutes we realized that it did not taste quite like any pork that we had ever eaten before – Dad thought maybe the pork had been sitting out too long.\u00a0 The only other customer at the restaurant happened to speak a little English so we asked him if what we were eating was pork.\u00a0 He replied that it was not, because he had ordered the pork and his serving looked different.\u00a0 \u201cWhat is this\u201d we asked him, holding up a chunk of our meat with chopsticks, and he pointed towards a dog that was picking at scraps around the tables.<\/p>\n

\"Dogs<\/a>

Dogs are also well-loved, well trained motorcycle partners!<\/p><\/div>\n

This was our first of two surprising dog moments during our travels.\u00a0 The other took place while we were sitting on the side of a Laos road, dust flying in our faces, waiting for a vehicle to pass by that could take us to our next destination.\u00a0 Several full cars passed us and time seemed to be crawling by at a snails pace.\u00a0 Then, an immense truck that looked like it should have been carrying timber rumbled by.\u00a0 As this monstrosity passed, we noticed that the truck was weighted down with (instead of logs) hundreds of cages occupied by yapping dogs.\u00a0 After our initial thought of \u201clook at all the cute dogs!\u201d, the light dawned.\u00a0 We slowly turned to each other and, after confirming what we had all just seen, turned back to the road to see the truck disappear over a small hill on the way to Vietnam.\u00a0 Once the initial shock had worn off a little bit we recognized that the dogs were being taken away to be used in the place of beef.\u00a0 The end of the month, the traditional time for eating dog, was about to arrive and we were witnessing the preparations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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