After China celebrates New Year with the rest of the world on Jan. 1, it will also be gearing for the Chinese New Year 2018, which begins on Feb. 16. According to the nation’s traditional lunar calendar, 2018 marks the Year of the Dog,
My Chowder will be 13 years old on Feb 4th, so he wasn't born in The Year of The Dog.
He was born the year of the monkey that is my year too :)
