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Fads and crazes: pocket pets and teacup dogs – we never learn.
Fads and crazes have being going on for decades beginning with the hamster in the 1930’s and now pocket pets and teacup dogs. Whenever the pet trade and animal breeders feel that the market is becoming stale, they are very good at producing and introducing new fads and crazes to keep the gullible and fickle…
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No paradise for the Gili Island ponies
The mass expansion of tourism on the motorless Gili Islands, Lombok is giving local ponies a hard time. Recently I spent a few days on the Gili islands during a lengthy trip visiting Lombok island and it was fascinating to see the ponies and brightly coloured carts locally known as the “Cidomo”. They are literally the workhorses…