Word: pets
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That much is clear when the 50-year-old owner of Gaza City's oldest pet store holds up a particularly fluffy kitten. "This is one of the cats we breed here. It's a Siamese mixed with a Persian," he says proudly. "Siamese cats are known for their intelligence. They are the smartest of cats. Whereas Persians have the most beautiful...
...shop is the biggest cat, fish and bird supplier in all of Gaza, and that just about any Himalayan, Persian or Siamese in the coastal enclave can be traced back to him and his neatly kept log book. But his business is also a story of unlikely survival. While pet food is not among the items blocked by the Israelis from entering Gaza, it is expensive getting Meow Mix into the territory. Gazans must improvise on pet food. "These goods are luxury items," he says, standing before a wall of mostly empty fish tanks. "People need political and financial stability...
...love at first sight ...the connection is there,” said the pet owner, commenting on her first encounter with Merf, a Siberian Dwarf hamster she acquired as a result of “feeling lonely” during her stint in dorm crew earlier this summer...
...Though Merf’s presence is of crucial importance to this student’s well being, she sometimes struggles to balance her two roles of Harvard student and pet owner. “The thing is with Merf, she gets lonely, she doesn’t have a companion to play with her. I’m busy with class, with work, and I don’t have the necessary time, which is on average an hour a day to play with her. I feel as though it is necessary that she get an article for herself...
...They’re] like YouTube videos. Are YouTube videos a distraction?” said the pet owner. “And having pets is therapeutic. If you have a rough day, you come back, you take the hamster out of the cage that is looking at you, and you pet it, and it’s fuzzy, it’s cute, and it overwhelms...