In my parent's compound, from their window, I could see a neighbor's little garden, and cages of bird and cricket. The bird sang beautifully and the cricket chirped loudly.
One day, I saw a cat became infatuated with the place.
Later, I realized that there was a squirrel confined behind the horizontal bars and I surely hoped that the cat wouldn't get his wishes. Better still, the family should have given the squirrel its freedom.
As I mentioned in the cat article, pets were practically nonexistent when I grew up in China but now they were everywhere. Below is a picture of a woman walking her dog in the same compound.
More bizarrely, in the Province Museum, I saw this sign below by the escalator, telling people to hold their pets when using the escalator. Bring pets to museum?
Back to my parents' compound, I also saw some a couple fish pounds teeming with fish. Considering how many cats roaming around in the compound, it was a relief to see the fish being so worry free.
But the shrimps in the tank in a restaurants were definitely not for eyes' pleasure.
One day, I walked by a real estate office and in front of it, a man was playing with a tortoise and I surely hoped that this was a pet, rather than food.
If the sight of a tortoise was strange, it was even stranger to see donkeys in the city. When I was little, it was not uncommon to see horse- or donkey-drawn carts delivering produces to the city. That practice had ceased to exist since late 1980s through early 1990s before I left China. Now the donkey carts were back. Very strange.
Well, at least those donkeys themselves were not the merchandise, unlike the unfortunate chickens and ducks I saw in a farmer's market:
Yet, not every animal in the market was to be slaughtered and consumed. This cute dog below was a pet dog belonged to one the of vendors and this little guy was just enjoying himself in his home turf.
Label: Shenyang, Shenyang Trip 2012
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