@tastyjj23 530248 wrote:
Yea well in japan i never saw a stray animal ever… So even if the chips arnt all they are talked up to be … It seemed to do a better job then countries without the chips
In Japan they have only very recently been affluent enough to keep pets (their economic growth mostly happened in the 1980s because of electronics and computers) and many pets are kept by older people whose own children have left for Western countries (or they never had kids of their own) so they are very well cared for and looked after.
Also the layout is different with a lot of parks and green space which they seem to let the cats, dogs and older people just wander about in as they please and everyone is encouraged to look after these areas and take photos of them (if you look on flickr or youtube you can see many photos and videos of this). Whereas cars and bikes and metro trains and other “fast/busy streets” are elsewhere. Even if you have lived there it might be hard to notice as unless you can read Japanese you may have been worried about getting lost and not explored the place, I don’t understand Japanese and only found these parks myself whilst looking for funny cat videos on Youtube (something else they are good at making :laugh_at:)
It is a modern concept but linked to ancient Asian cultural ideas , although another big factor in Japan is that all the people can only live in a small part of it as there are too many earthquakes and other extreme weather phenomena to live in other areas. So everything is supposed to “be in its place”.
Northern European nations try to do this as well. England isn’t quite as advanced as the Netherlands or Germany in this respect but even here a lot of the people who are aged 60 and above are the ones who look after the stray animals (like how they had already worked out what to do about the cow I encountered in the rural areas!) and I have seen a lot more older people with bull terriers now which they are getting from the rescue centres.
