I remember years ago the first time when I met a cow on my hiking path in Hong Kong. I’m sure he thought it was his grazing path. I didn’t argue with him. He was bigger than me. At the time, I was a little afraid. I just wasn’t familiar with cows or more specifically Hong Kong cows. Still that cow seemed very at home on the hiking trail. Fast forward to present day, I live in TinLiu, 田寮. If you are from the US, you don’t really care whether I give you the characters or not, but if you are from Hong Kong. You want the characters as there are about 5 different TinLius in Hong Kong. Without the characters or listening to the tones, you will likely find yourself in the wrong TinLiu. Well, unless you’re one of the many cows that seem to consider this area home.
They don’t need characters. We are surrounded by nature here and the cows like it here. We have a French neighbor who used to scoop up their droppings but I think he has given up on that for now. There’s just too many cows. At least someone come along and scoop the droppings when they fall on the road.
Cow March Down Main Street
Speaking of road, these cows are organized. They seem to plan trips to TinLiu as it suits them. Some days ago, I was walking Tracy to the bus stop when we saw a herd of cows walking down the road. All the traffic just waited for them. Haha… It was a bit of a cow jam. Here’s the video
Unfortunately, the cows, pigs and other wildlife are all being affected by the development going on all over this area. When I moved in a little over two years ago, this is what our village area looked like.
Now there is a lot more dirt, gravel, and concrete. The poor cows they want to eat grass, but we have less and less grass for them to eat.
I don’t know the details of the housing development that is going in across the fence from us, but one of the neighbors says they will be putting in 60 story high apartment buildings. It seems where ever I move the city follows me. We probably have about two or three years. They’re even going to be adding 6 more village houses right in front of where Tracy and I now live. It’s sad much of the nature around us is being replaced by concrete.
