Noble Pets: Sanlitun's Latest Spot for Pampering Your Pooch

“Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig. He just looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal.”
– Winston Churchill

Churchill would be pleased with Noble Pets. This new store sells little porkers eager to peek into your peepers. Thankfully, they won’t reach your eye level as these are the toy pigs that won’t grow bigger than the Chaoyang District regulation height for dogs. Boy, are they not cute enough to eat right up?

Noble Pets provides the goods and services that Sanlitun-dwelling animal lovers have been waiting for. Everything from minor medicines (eye drops, flea collars) to puppy training spray (you don’t want to ask) is available, and that’s before all of the outrageous “This is modern China” gaudy ghastliness comes into the equation. Seriously, who spends several thousand kuai on a leash, even if it is jewel-encrusted and imported from Germany?

The pampering theme continues on the second floor, which looks like a high-tech dentist. All that machinery and the magic happens, as anyone who has ever been featured on MTV Cribs is duty bound to say, and that magic is pet pruning. If you have never seen someone preen a poodle to the exact dimensions dictated by a drawing straight out of a “Teach Yourself to Draw” book, then you have not lived. And neither has your poodle.