Cute, fluffy and horribly greedy

[Garden Carpet]

Excellent loripo... one chihuahua sized shopping trolly required hehe!

jaki

PS Henry says their job is to look after me, so we could say they are already gainfully employed. I say they do a lot of sleeping on the job!!

[loripo]

Our local organic food shop has very small child sized trolleys - maybe I can get you one to try

[Garden Carpet]

Sounds as if we have a deal. Will he need a bright yellow jacket?

jaki

[loripo]

I have this vision of him pushing a tiny trolley thru the carpark at Asda, note in hand and a purse attached to his collar

[Garden Carpet]

and tugging the jr along saying "no... you are not having a bonio unless you stop whining"

wonderful picture

jaki

[Fritillary]

loripop
<The book & article show just how expensive ecologically our pets are. >

For me this is just a silly idea to sell books not more. Even worry me that this silly idea be a pretext for those bad people to abandon animals.

Animals (or babies) can be extremely expensive if we just follow the consumerism of actual societies. I have had lot of animals with me and money or "carbon emissions" have been almost "0". The only more expensive things were medicines when animals got older or neutering.

And yet UK it is fine, if you were in USA there are lot more rubbish to animals, since dresses (??!!) to parfumes, which are only waste of money and ressources. And of course, later it is said that having an animal is expensive...

[Norfolk Girl]

Oh Fritillary - that little sad kittie you have on your profile page Was the photograph taken in another country?

BTY I agree with what you said in your posting.

[Dinasaw]

Oh dear (wipes away tears of mirth). I recall years ago a Playgroup Mum getting hot under the collar about us making pictures with stuck-on pasta and lentils (remember those? they were very pretty!) when there was a world food shortage......and I was wondering what she actually fed her 2 dogs and cat on. Or even her 4 children......

[loripo]

Seeing what Fritillary said about dresses for animals, a shop I went into last week had some. A customer thought they were firstborn baby clothes and was told they were for dogs. I wonder what the people who had to make those, for next to no pay , thought about that.

[Fritillary]

Do you mean this one?
I put it in my avatar. Yes I found this little kitty in the street in Mexico. Sadly there are lots like her. I was walking on the street and I saw her just like that, I could not leave her there. Even she had a horrid infected wound in her tail, so I took her with my parents.
But it was a happy ending, she became a beautiful girl but I dont have the photos of "after".

By the way that is why I wouldnt like to go back, I just cannot stand seeing animals like this one on the streets. I am not rich, I cannot take all of them with me... well maybe I should begin to play loto shouldnt I??

[Norfolk Girl]

Someone after my own heart I did wonder if you had found the poor little cat when you were away abroad.

The first time I went to a foreign country, it was to Rhodes. On the waste ground next to the hotel was a mum cat and her tiny kittens. Each morning myself and a German tourist took food frrom our breakfast to help mum cat out. Whilst staying there, she unfortunately got hit by a car and broke a leg, but desperately tried to carry on looking after her babies.

We also had a dog follow us round town one day and I then witnessed the same dog hit by a car outside our hotel. I rushed out to help it, but the locals wouldn't stop and by the time I got someone from the hotel, it had died. I got told to put it in the rubbish bin, while the hotel worker crossed themselves several times!

Like you, I can always see the suffering on the streets (animals and humans), even when we've stayed in expensive hotels courtesy of company's expenses. But it amazed me how some people can walk by and not care.