Growing up in a Dairy farming community in Australia, it was not unusual to see cows being transported around in the back of a truck, or sheep for that matter.
Here in Abu Dhabi, we get chickens roaming around developed city streets (true!) and once in a while we'll see a camel roaming around somewhere (usually on the way up to Dubai.)
Driving home from school pick up the other week, the girls and I spotted this, in the back of a new 4-door ute. Hopefully you can figure out that it is a camel.
However, on a more serious note, last week at school pick up, one of the 'local' mother's picked up her Grade 2 daughter, with the girl's pet in the back of the family's SUV. The girl's pet cheetah. I kid you not. I didn't see it for myself but word and vibe in the car park was buzzing. I felt sick to know that a cheetah (A F*%^ING CHEETAH!) was in a place of school children when it clearly did not belong there - obviously it belongs in the wilds of Africa. No doubt this animal was declawed and the family probably had it since it was a little 'kitten'. Having 'wild' animals as pets here is not unusual, I hate to say, but it is illegal. I'm pretty sure this family has been dobbed in to the right people, according to a lot of horrified western parents, at MissM's school.
Seen anything weird in your neck of the woods lately?
2 comments:
I quite often see a 20-something girl in full theatrical make-up walking down Toorak Road in the mid-afternoon. I always wonder what her story is.
Never seen a camel on a truck though.
LOL, LOL...No, I cannot say that I have! The weirdest thing I have ever seen was a Bobcat! And it is the only time in 47 years that I have seen a Bobcat up here in these Hills....I've seen Deer and Cayote's and Skunks, and some Snakes and hundreds of Lizards, but only that one Bobcat...
But, to see a Camel and a Cheetah.....WOW!
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