Thousands of dogs culled in plan to take bite out of rabies

Bai Lihe is not getting much sleep these days, even though her village no longer reverberates to the nocturnal sounds of 300 local dogs that were killed in a bid to combat rabies.

Instead, Bai lies awake thinking about Doudou, the dog who shared her life for the past eight years.

Doudou was out in the neighborhood a week ago and never came home, said Bai, a 55-year-old housewife from Xiayishui village, Yangxian county, Hanzhong, in northwest Shaanxi province.