Dobby is basically nothing like her namesake from Harry Potter, but after much debate we couldn't not name our new family member after something from Harry Potter. We did watch all six Harry Potter movies while at training after all (hi, fellow mission interns and us 2's- we miss you!).
The black market here is the go-to place to get animals, so Hol and I headed there a few weeks ago, knowing we wanted a kitten.
All we found were puppies (which while tempting, our Mongolian apartment is not the place for a puppy that will grow to be the size of a small horse), so we asked one of the puppy guys if he knew where we could find a kitten.
After communicating that we wanted a "mini-man cat" (kitten is not a known word here:-)) we exchanged phone numbers and he told us our mini-man cat would be ready in a few hours.
Not 10 minutes later (we were still walking home), Hol received a phone call from him, in which he said, "Your cat has arrived." Talk about a black market transaction- who special orders a mini-cat and gets it not 10 minutes later?
We returned to the market to find said puppy guy standing with another guy. The new guy unzipped his jacket to reveal a kitten and soon said kitten was tucked into Hol's jacket for the walk home. We exchanged money (roughly $9), the puppy guy announced how much we paid to his fellow animal sellers and we left, a wriggling and cold kitten in tow.
And that is how you get a kitten in Mongolia-
You place your order at the black market, you exchange money for goods that are tucked inside the seller's jacket and you walk home with a mini-cat. Easy.
P.S. Our mini-man cat turned out to be a mini-woman. Turns out the black market isn't necessarily as gender-specific as they claimed. Good thing we're not particular :- )
2 comments:
what happens to the kitten when you leave?
the kitten will come home with one of us :-)
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