This is what a traditional-style toilet looks like. You can find them all over Asia. But this one has dogs living on and under it.

According to the SBS TV program that revealed this, the owner goes to the toilet here in order to feed his dogs. Yes, they have to eat human shit.

This practice goes way back, and in fact is probably where the name "shit dog" comes from, a traditional slang name often given to dogs in Korea. Needless to say, viewers were appalled.

Feeding human feces to pigs was a traditional practice on Korea's island of Jeju. The pigs were similarly called "dung pigs."

But there comes a time when backward and ignorant peasant practices and traditions have to be abandoned. They are nothing to be proud of and just make Korea look bad.

We can only hope the idiot in the SBS program will change his ways and give this mother and her pups decent food.

Update

We've been informed that another animal protection group has rescued these dogs. Possibly they had to buy them, which is sometimes how dogs are rescued in cases like this.