I'd like to talk about my two cats, who are called Misha and Masha, and they're nine years old. And because I work for the British Council and I've worked in lots of different parts of the world, they're quite international cats. So they were born in St Petersburg, Russia, around the dawn of the millennium, in the middle of winter. And St Petersburg winters are very, very cold, so it's kind of minus 30 degrees, and some friends of mine found these two tiny little kittens in the snow and brought them in and then sent an email around the office saying 'Who can look after these two cats?' And my wife and I already had two cats at the time, from Indonesia, and we thought can we ... have we got room ... can we adopt these two new cats? And then when we saw them, they were just so cute that we couldn't say no. So we brought them home and so they lived with us for, like, two years in Russia. And then we moved back to the UK and they had to stay in France for six months, erm, just to check that they didn't have rabies ... erm, before they were allowed into the UK. And then they lived with us in Cambridge and we had a cat flap so they used to wander about it.
When it came to leave the UK, we discovered that they'd in fact had about five or six different homes and had made friends with all kinds of people along the street and used to go and get fed and get stroked and cuddled by all of our neighbours. Then we moved to Mexico and we had a house with a garden so we had to build a special fence that kind of curled in on itself so that the cats would climb up and then feel that they were starting to fall down so they'd climb back down again.
And then we moved to Guangzhou this time last year. So now they are 'flat cats', erm, they've not been squashed, they just live in our flat, live in our apartment and they don't go out. They just go out onto the balcony. But the interesting thing is that their personality has ... seems to have changed in every country they've lived in. So Masha used not to be very friendly towards people. As she's got older, she's now quite a cuddly cat. And they've adapted to living, to being kind of free to roam about and then being in the garden and now they seem to be very happy just being in a flat.
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Hello!
Happy new year,
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Cat and dog are very different : dog is a good bodyguard which likes games and makes some noise while cat is calm and gives us a lot of tenderness.
I think both of them are complementary.
I think dog is friendlier than cat. I can play with my dog in my house, in the park and so on. Dog is more intelligent than cat. That's why I love my dog.
i would like to go in spain.i like beeing there becouse i think that people are friednly,and becouse i like to meet football players of spain,or of barcelona such as david villa,fabregas etc.i agree with the phrase that the cats are indiferent and the dogs are loyal.i like dogs and i have a little dog called Reksi.I love him.I hate cats....Thanks..Kisssssssss
l think l would like to go to SCHOTLAND for work and to live. people are so nice and country is beatiuful. l have so many reasons to go there actually.Other thing is if l had a chance to get a pet ıt would be a dog becouse they are very loyal and listening you at least..
I have a cat too, her name is Sheela. She is a Siam. I like her, she is like a little dog. She speaks a lot to me, of course in her language, sometimes I can't understand her, because it's necassary to be empathetic to the cat. If I am busy, I can't be empathetic.
But often I understand Sheela, she is a lovely cuddly cat
Cats are more easy going than dogs. I love cats.
In Russia they say” it is good there where we are not present”I prefer working where I was
born. of course I would like to see new places and meet new people but as a
tourist.I like dogs I have two big asian sheepdogs. They are so goody-goody! Diana,Russia
I love England. I hope have a opportunity to study and work in England. I love Liverpool which famous by Anfield Stadium , the Cavern Club the Liverpool university and so on.
I have a cat and a dog, In fact, Dogs more loyal and friendly than cat but I think cat is good,
My cat name is Tieu Ho ( small tiger) and My dog name is Brush. When they played it's really fun . They are lovely and smart.
Dogs are more preferable. They helped man kind in different ways (e.g. Disaster Recovery, In detective department). Recently read a nice story about dog. Red Dog (2002) is a short novel by Louis de Bernières charting the life of a popular dog, a "Red Cloud Kelpie" nicknamed Red Dog, in Karratha,Western Australia.
I much prefer dog to cat. Dogs are human's most loyal friend, dogs help us a lot especially in the military, police and immigration, we also using dogs during disaster rescue operation, further more we usually bring dog beside us when go hunting. We can take the dog for a walk but cat. All in all, keeping dog is more interesting than keeping cat.
If my job allowed me to move around the world, I would like to work in Melbourne or Singapore. There may be lot of other good places to work. These two I am little bit familiar.
Melbourne is a nice city with lot of gardens. Some of the gardens at the heart of the city are Royal Botanic Gardens, Fitzroy Gardens, Treasury Gardens, King's Domain, Alexandra Gardens,
Queen Victoria Gardens, Flagstaff Gardens, Royal Park . Weather changes it mood quite often. At morning you may feel it very cold. But afternoon may become very hot. Monday to Friday evening city is totally absorbed in work. Friday, Saturday night city takes a festive look. From Sunday evening it becomes very quiet. Victoria market is very vibrant with more than one thousands stalls. At weekend musicians play music. Sports wise it is very vibrant. People love Rugby, Cricket. Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) is a wonderful ground. Every year there is Australian Open Tennis tournament there.
Singapore is very disciplined and clean. Various kinds of foods are available here. So it is adored as “Paradise of food”. Weather is tropical. Lot of interesting place is at your arm’s reach likely Marina Bay Sand, Resort world Sentosa, Jurong Bird Park, Night Safari, Zoo, Botanic gardens.
Thanks for getting a chance to express my love to these two places. Like all other people I also love my hometown. Chandannagar (33 km away from Kolkata India) is my hometown.
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