Chinese women have no time for pet haters
Over lunch at a hotel on the edge of an industrial city in the middle of China, with roars coming from a wedding in the next room, two women were telling me about their cats. One had been given a stray kitten only a few weeks old which had grown into the most devoted pet.
“She’s more like a dog than a cat. She follows me around everywhere and sits looking at me, even in the bathroom,” she said.
She reckoned that feeding and taking care of the cat cost the equivalent of about €40 per month and she had…
