My Take | Hong Kong is barking up the right tree by embracing the pet economy
Besides licensing animal-friendly restaurants, the government should have a plan to promote food, healthcare, and more in the industry
By the time we moved out of our Hong Kong home and relocated to Canada, it was practically World War III with our neighbours, well two of them anyway. With the rest, we were friendly or actual friends with them.
My neighbourly foes were two expatriate families, who hated that we let our dogs use the front rather than the back stairs, and let them run unleashed to our car parked outside. My excuse was that I didn’t even walk my dogs in our neighbourhood; I drove them to a faraway dog park.
In retaliation, I called the Buildings Department to report their illegal structure.
When my wife praised the police for their valiant actions during the 2014 Occupy Central protests, the officers who showed up practically became her long-lost pals while our hateful neighbour downstairs quietly listened, thinking they didn’t know she was there.
Yonfan and his rental manager didn’t give a toss so long as we paid our rent on time. In the end, for leaving us alone over many years to run a zoo in his flat and that my dogs had done some damage to the floors, I let him have my initial HK$100,000-plus deposit, even though we both knew the old walk-up low-rise was going to be torn down for redevelopment anyway.