The Dog by Jack Livings

Chan Wei lives in China and is a mortician who is involved in dog racing on the side. His cousin, Zheng, owns a racing dog, but unfortunately the Chinese government has decided to outlaw gambling; including dog racing. Chan Wei and his wife Li Yan have been able to make some handsome profits off of this form of gambling. So this leaves Chan Wei in a predicament: should he continue to support dog racing or do what is legal? What should happen to the dog? Zheng has a plan to take care of the problem: eat the dog. So he invites all the family for a feast. While at the dinner, Zheng wants Chan Wei to kill the dog before everyone. He declines and Chan Wei is elected to cook dinner. She rushes to the market to buy whatever she can. She makes up the food and presents it to all, but both she and Chan Wei take the plates stack them up and go out and feed the dog before anyone else. Irony is the best storyteller.