Sardine Cities And Animals

Just the door bell rang. An inspector wanted to know: “Is there a dog in this house?” Actually they take rising taxes on dogs. Soon, for sure, they will take a big tax on cats too. Our cat was silently hiding behind my legs, when the tax man was making his interview. It’s a good strategy to be shy sometimes; and it’s not easy to protect the last fragment of nature in our Sardine cities …

title=”Sardine City I” – photo by Rupert Procter, click on the picture to enter his galleries on Flickr
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my tip of the day, a Telegraph reportage: cat and grandma in rural Japan, featuring a wonderful coexistence:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/9698490/Photo-series-of-the-bond-between-a-grandmother-and-her-odd-eyed-white-cat.html
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compare
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/hong-kong-mankinds-future/
there:

title=”Hong Kong” – photo by Manuel ROMARÍS, click on the picture to enter his galleries on Flickr
or,
more of the topic “animals_and_their_people”:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/10/animals_and_their_people.html
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more of the topic “the hell of the big cities”:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/11/austerity_protests.html?camp=obinsite
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