{"id":273928,"date":"2026-06-15T12:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=273928"},"modified":"2026-06-15T14:26:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:26:48","slug":"china-opens-kindergarten-for-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/273928\/","title":{"rendered":"China opens kindergarten for dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new kind of preschool in China offers games, nibbles, treadmills and music for puppies, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Pets arrive by 9 a.m. each day at Paw³, which bills itself as a kindergarten for dogs in the commercial hub of Shanghai, providing tightly scheduled activities for the canines․<\/p>\n

They follow a routine of interactive games and obstacle courses, interspersed with freshly made snacks and naps as ⁠a pianist plays classical music, and can stroll on a special doggie treadmill before their owners pick them up around 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

As declining birth rates alter lifestyles, pets are increasingly treated as members of the family, driving growth in higher-value services such as daycare, grooming and training.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new kind of preschool in China offers games, nibbles, treadmills and music for puppies, Reuters writes. Pets arrive by 9 a.m. each day at Paw³, which bills itself as a kindergarten for dogs in the commercial hub of Shanghai, providing tightly scheduled activities for the canines․ They follow a routine of interactive games and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":273843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-social"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273936,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273928\/revisions\/273936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}