But history shows that for a dog to bite a rat was once something perfectly respectable. Both written and archaeological records show that in early times, the Chinese were in the habit of keeping dogs as mousers.
但歷史證明，狗咬耗子本是正經事，由於文獻紀錄以及文物出現，都可瞭解中國人早有養狗捕鼠的習慣。