There were numerous critters in Lijiang and surrounding areas.  The ones here are only  the more unusual or one representative from a group or location.

Domestic

I’ve never seen a dog sit like that before.

The girls all put their heads down when I appeared with my camera.  They were all sitting outside a cafe.

This one is notable for 3 small dogs sleeping in proximity.

This critter was visitng an ATM with its master.  When I stopped to photograph it  the Chinese did too so it ended up in quite a crowd.

This dog was all dressed up and had somewhere to go.  He was out with his owners who were dining in the street side of a nice little restaurant in the old town of Shushe  which I visited at night.

Rural Critters

This one was tied to a quad bike at Wenhai where the lake and medow was located.   Someone had a business involving renting quad bikes to tourists who rode them near the lake and then up the unpaved road towards Lijiang.  We saw a numer of young Chinese have a good time riding the bikes up nad down the mountain road.

This is one of the horses available for riding at Lake Wenhai. The flowers in the background are ones often found in Australian gardens or pots.

This horse walked right up to me.  Being unfamiliar with horses and not wanting my hand chomped on by horse teeth I let it alone and it soon wandered off.

Some of the goats and a view of the lake.  I’m not sure how badly afffected Yunnan continues to be following the last drought as everything seems so green and fertile.  However, this lake looks pretty small and I have seen a large scale dam completely devoid of water and another obviously still quite low plus a few creeks which look low.  It is the rainy season now.  I haven’t encountered much rain and I don’t know how normal that is.

One goat was lying down and the others crowded around her.

Pig herding.  There were some others which were tethered.

These cattle were at the foot of a hill on which a monastry mostly destroyed during the Cultural Revolution is located.  A new monastry is being created and a monk materialised on a road and was followed by a couple of kids who also materialised from nowhere .

This cow was tethered in the village where we went for dinner.

Other Critters in Urban Environments

This horse and its master were one of several in Lijiang available for tourists to ride through the streets.  Horses were an important part of Lijiang and other parts of Yunnan as they carried tea and silk along the Tea Horse Road to Tibet in times past.  Lijiang was one of the important stopping points.

This squirrel was resting in a small rabbit cage outside a shop in Lijiang.  There were many wild ones at the Golden Temple in Kunming where they scurried up and down trees in search of nuts and seeds sometimes left by tourists.

These fish were in a cage outside a restaurant  in one of the canals running through Shushe.

This guy was putting the goat around the main square in Lijiang.,  I’m not sure what his role was apart from to look co-ordinated and good.  Presumably the horse people were paid for providing rides.  There were also some people standing in another large open area who were dressed in historical clothing and made up with metallic paint to go with the metallised appearance of their clothing who posed with tourists.  They wern’t taking any money.  This man and his goat were always alone.

These two were just walking through the streets.  I saw another eagle a couple of days later tethered to a post at a stage in a park  where people were playing Naxi music.  The man who seemed to be with it was different.

There were a few shops selling ex-critters in the form of pelts.  The man with tourist horse had a fox or somesuch wrapped around his head in the form of a hat and I’ve seen the same elsewhere.  There were a few shops selling leather bags yet  few for leather shoes yet once upon a time Lijiang used to be  a centre of excellence for leather shoes.