Another Visit to Champ Pet Shop

We've been back to the Champ Pet Shop a few more times to buy more canned cat food for Kitty Kat, our building's cat that we feed and take care of during our three month stay.

  

 

Here's a better look at the shop and it's neighbors. Located on the busy Lebeny Street across from the old and long abandoned Siag Hotel, the shop is sandwiched into a block anchored by the Angogo auto dealership and a building supply shop. There's a radiator store and a "Magic Kids Station" at the end of the block also.  Across the street are a number of medical offices.

 

These small shops are typical of the older neighborhood where we live. Out in the suburbs, an auto dealer would look much like an American dealership - large and brightly lit.

Our friend, Roshdy, dropped us off and drove on to attend to another errand while we shopped. We picked up about a dozen cans of cat food this time and waited for the return of our ride back to the apartment.  Abdl Rahman, Champ's manager and gracious host, offered us two chairs to sit in while we waited and sent his assistant for tea and coffee for us, of course.

 

While we were waiting for the tea to arrive, Abdl Rahman showed us a few items that he thought our cat might enjoy: a laser pointer to chase, and also a robotic mouse that rolls across the floor dragging a tail.  What cat owner could resist this example of twenty-first century robotics! Of course, I bought it - at the reasonable price of just over four dollars. It's rechargeable through a USB port just like a mobile phone.

    

 

Kitty Kat was intrigued and a bit wary at first but now loves to chase it. She needs the exercise and diversion. Now that she is getting regular meals, she has begun to put on weight - or does that weight have something to do with the large Tomcat that has been hanging around the front door to the building. Time will tell.

More pictures at this Flickr album, of course (along with sign translations by Google).