Posted on 05/27/2009 2:56:18 AM PDT by Daffynition
We were there for a couple months due to my husband’s work assignment. So we were in some of the more obscure parts of the cities and many restaurants had cages out front with many different kinds of animals.
The main market was the eye opener (used to be called Xing Ping market, they’ve since changed the name) We saw dogs, cats, (felt especially sick at the way they kept cats and dogs in the market), beetles, worms, frogs, snakes, geese, rabbits, you name it they were slaughtering it, and the sanitation, well there was none, we walked through puddles of animal blood (I was so hyper about putting on and taking off shoes because of all the “stuff” we walked through in the market and other places, I had the family washing their hands each time they even touched their shoes.)
If you’re squeamish, don’t look at this article, but it was in an UK paper a few years ago about the cat and dog slaughter at restaurants and markets:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-445260/Back-barbaric-business—caged-cats-China.html
We were in China twice - both times for adoption. We were warned by our agency to always wear shoes and never to eat food from a street vendor.
My company had an office right down the street from our Hotel at the time. It’s a small world.
Look more like big ears.
I suggest marinade and mesquite wood BBQ, slow roasted gato.
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Angel kitty!
Did you stay at the White Swan?
oops hit post before I finished. In Guangzhou all the people there to adopt children stayed at the White Swan...a beautiful hotel.
It looks like our cat, but, instead of sticking out of her back, her appendage sticks out of her belly and kind of drags the floor....no wait...she is just fat. Sorry.
Long hairs, particularly with that texture of fur, mat ferociously. 2 of our 4 cats are long haired and one has that sort of fur...it only takes missing a night or so of grooming to get mats that look like that behind her ears.
Evolution, intelligent design or cosmic mutation?
:-)
I’ll take it!
The first time we stayed at the China Marriott and the secind time at White Swan.
I was thinking the same thing...
I think its a natural evolutionary process Chinese cats are now going thru. Cats there have discovered that no one wants to eat a cat with bat wings...........
They’re not wings. They’re ESM/ECM antennae for avoiding dogs...
WEEEEeeeee AHHHHHhhhhh
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