It’s 2am right now, I’m sitting on the floor of my uncle’s house trying not to pass out. Today was a super busy day and unfortunately, it rushed past super quickly. Woke up around 9 and ate breakfast with my uncle and aunt on my dad’s side of the family. Then headed out to run errands with Kimberly like closing her bank account and getting last minute gifts and snacks to bring home.
We were in Mon Kok and Kimberly took me to the street that I haven’t been to where they sell all the delicious I mean adorable puppies and kittens. I just….ugh I don’t know how I feel about it to be honest. From all the research and knowledge I have from owning a rescue dog for the past year and a half, I just can’t agree with this form of selling and buying pets.
For one thing, all the puppies (I didn’t pay attention to the cats because they’re jerks) were between the ages of 2 and 6ish months. My first issue is, what happens after 6 months because I doubt they’re all getting adopted by coincidence at that age. Next I now realize why none of the dogs I saw in China were leashed. I think that by taking them away from their mother at such a young age because they’re at a very cute stage warped them in their young development stage of learning important social lessons that only being in a litter until around 9 weeks teaches. So that’s probably why they’re so incredibly attached to their owners that they aren’t required to have leashes (I could be wrong).
Next, there were 2-3 dogs in a very small cage and they were just craving the touch of someone to pet or hold them. I’m not going jump to the conclusion that these animals are being maltreated but whenever one of the workers opened up the cage to clean it, the puppies would automatically want to play. Being locked in a glass case all day every day sounds pretty awful to me.
Finally, some of the pet stores were selling husky and English bull dog puppies. These things get BIG fast and considering how small the space is in Hong Kong, I really don’t know if people think about the exercise needed or even how much even the husky would suffer in the intense humidity and heat in the summer.
People weren’t allowed to take pictures but…whatever. I’m not going to blow a whistle on their businesses because obviously there’s a demand for adorable tiny puppies and it’s legal to run the way that they are. I just felt that this was important enough to share my opinion about and have pictures to back me up.
This tortoise could barely turn around in its tank
And these bunnies…well they were super fuzzy and cute ^_^
