Look what I just found on Google….. World’s most expensive dog!
Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Tibetan Mastiff Lovers: I was googling around the internet this morning. I was half listening to the Today show and they were talking about a story they were going to cover but I did not catch when. It will probably be on tomorrow. It is about a 150 pound English Mastiff that gave birth to 20 pups. Of course, I was interested because of Romeo. Anyway, when I googled, Today show English Mastiff Mom gives birth to 20 pups, this story came up and I had to share with my dear readers.
The world’s most expensive dog cost $582,000
A Tibetan Mastiff now holds the title after being sold to a woman in China
September 2009
A woman, identified by only the surname Wang, poses with her $582,000 dog as they are greeted by a convoy of 30 black Mercedes-Benz cars at the airport in Xi’an, in China’s Shaanxi province, on September 9, 2009.
It sounds like a shaggy dog story, but it isn’t. A Tibetan Mastiff is believed to have broken the record as the world’s most expensive dog sold to a young Chinese millionaire for a mind-blowing $582,000.
The owner, known only as Ms. Wang, traveled to Qinghai province of northwest China to purchase the 18-month old dog, named Yangtze River Number Two.
Yangtze came home to an A-List entrance at Xi’an airport in China’s Shaanxi province, where he was reportedly greeted by hordes of dog lovers and picked up on Wednesday by a motorcade of 30 black Mercedes-Benz cars.
“Gold has a price, but this Tibetan Mastiff doesn’t,” she was quoted as saying to Chinese publications.
Tibetan Mastiffs, a fairly rare breed, typically cost about $2,000 in the West, but are more expensive in China where they are valued for their skills as guard dogs.
Ms. Wang has plans to mate Yangtze with another Tibetan Mastiff that she owns, according to Chinese reports.
A family in Florida previously held the record, paying $155,000 for a Labrador named Lancelot Encore, cloned from their dead dog, Lancelot.
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I am taking it that there is no Tibeten Mastiff rescues in China! LOL
More odd stories from the East later…….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma both worth about a zillion dollars a piece.
Comments(6)
Wow!!!! Thats a nice dog but not sure if I would pay that kind of money. Hope she guards the dog. Not sure what to think on this one Cat.
Some people have more money than brains. The sellers saw her coming a mile away.
$500,000 for a dog…in china…millions are starving and she feels the need to spend that on a dog…i’m all for dogs…but you know sometimes you need to step back and examine things…couldn’t that money go to so much better things….rather than breeding other expensive tibetian mastiffs????
call me jaded and cynical.
Maybe she wants to be a billionaire and mastiff puppies will help her get there.
WOW! When I first saw this animal I thought it was a Newf, but it certainly an amazing looking animal. I have never heard of this breed.
Cat you said what I was thinking. He is a beautiful animal however. I have been to many cattle auctions and follow prices on livestock and this dog goes “Way over the Top”