The Police ๐Ÿ‘ฎ . The Dog ๐Ÿถ . And the Copy Guy ๐Ÿ–จ (a story of my day)

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Well, yesterday was fun! (to say the least)

I woke up yesterday with a big headache,maybe it was the air conditioner that was constantly blowing on me or maybe a half of glass of wine that I drank before bed I don't really know. So I made myself a cup of coffee and slowly started living my troubles behind not knowing that bigger troubles were yet to come.

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I got a call, it was a woman saying something in Chinese, I almost thought it was a commercial again and was about to say: Bu young xie xie (No need, thank you) but thank god I haven't forgotten the language completely so through the conversation I kind of figured out that it was POLICE and that they will come soon with a check up and they need copies of passports, visas and the apartment contract. (What if I didn't speak any Chinese?I feel sorry for foreigners who don't speak any chinese and also have to deal with this kind of stuff, what are they supposed to do in this situation?Police doesn't know any English either)

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Once I hanged up the phone the music from Mission Impossible movie started to play in my head like: ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton ton )))) I ran an eye over the messy apartment, a cup of coffee I haven't finished yet and my dog...My dog!She was eating, she looked back and dropped food from her mouth. Happy was mission number one to deal with. We don't have all the documents for her, since she doesn't have a passport with our names written in it, she is considered to be an illegal one in the family.

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The registration of the pets for chinese and especially for foreigners is very very very difficult, not only it's about the places you should go and do stuff it's also the amount of documents you have to provide to make it work, including the original papers of apartment ownership which we don't own of course.So my motto here is - "Better safe, than sorry". I thought : "okay, I will just take my monkey to the pet shop where we usually take her for a haircut and then go copy those docs the police said they need".

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I put a leash on Happy, found all the docs I needed and rushed out from the apartment.

While me and Happy were walking as fast as we could to the pet shop, people who were walking by, starring at Happy saying: ๅฅฝ็˜ฆ! which means - So skinny! usually we bark at them for that,but today we didn't really have time ๐Ÿ˜ฌ๐Ÿ˜ˆ

(Dogs also have bad haircuts, from a fluffy monkey Happy turned into a little mouse with a huge head๐Ÿ˜.But at least she doesn't feel hot)

Before and After๐Ÿ˜‚

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You know when you expect and need everything to go smoothly and cooperate ,it goes right the opposite way.When I got to the pet shop it was closed, a big old fashioned lock was hanging on the door silently saying: "You are screwed, Damira!"๐Ÿ˜

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I decided to call the owner of the shop and ask where everyone was, when I got a hold of him he said that they don't work today because they have all gone to Shanghai.That was not really going with my perfect "crime plan" and I started begging him to help somehow, to send a person to open the place and put Happy for couple of hours there.He probably heard the despair in my voice and said he will send his friend to help me and open the door.The Chinese guy came and I checked at least one of the boxes I had in my plan.

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Then, I needed to try and find a place nearby where I could copy my documents.Luckily, there was a small half tailor's workshop half copy place.I was happy I found something very close and didn't have to waste time walking with 100 degrees outside.The copy guy was very nice but his copying machine and skills were not promising at all, it kept breaking over and over again during the copying.One time it comes out too white, the other - too black ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธIt took about 30-40 minutes instead of 5 that I anticipated.

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I grabbed all the copies and ran home to cover Happy's tracks. Her bowl with water and food went to the balcony, her toys together with little black & white football she loves so much went to the drawer, her food to the cupboard and I was done before I knew it ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ‘

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I started cleaning a bit to make it look like not piglets but pink flamingos are actually living in this apartment.

And then I sat and waited, I don't know why but it's always very stressful and a bit nervous when police comes to your house with a check-up.You are not a criminal, you didn't do anything wrong but it feels not so nice and exciting. It's like when you are walking out of the supermarket without buying anything it feels wrong even though you didn't do anything criminal ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

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The fact that police comes to your house and checks your documents and how you live there is granted, it's not a surprise in China. When it was G20 last year, police would come almost every week making check ups, asking questions, for instance : If we are planning to go out of the country or so, what do we do, where we work, how long are we going to live in China.

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I mentioned in my previous post that it's relatively safe to live in China which means that Chinese government keeps an eye ๐Ÿ‘ on everyone including foreigners ๐Ÿ‘€.I would even say: especially foreigners.They check and check and recheck and check one more time.All the documents they are asking I believe we submitted at least couple of times already,but I guess it's all bureaucratic.

Somebody finally knocked on the door,I opened. It was the same lady I saw couple of times before.She took all the documents and a picture of me sitting on the sofa for a report. This time I didn't ask to see the photo to make sure I look good on it, not this kind of time ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

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Once she left I ran to the pet shop to get my monkey.

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When we got home we high-fived and both crashed on the sofa with relief.Happy put her feet on the table and turned on the tv and I started to play with my toys.Oi ๐Ÿ˜ฌ, it was the other way around๐Ÿ˜

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She reunited with her beloved Donkey toy and took her beauty sleep she skipped in the afternoon, and I got to finally drink my coffee in a peaceful atmosphere.

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That was my day.

What about yours?

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cute dog....:)

Thank you๐Ÿ˜Š

you are welcome my friend :)

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Nice story. What would happen with your puppy if they find her?

They might say she is cute or : where are her documents?We are planning to move from China,I consulted with people regarding her documents and moving to another country,they said it's not really necessary to make a passport,just the certificates which proves she is healthy will do, so we are working on that now๐Ÿ˜

Oh, That's good. Sometimes they cook dogs in China, I read.

It's true..It's sick and very sad that people in China do that,they even have a Yulin Dog Meat Festival where they kill thousands of dogs and other animals for meat...People tried to sign a petition to stop it but they couldn't.Something must be done to stop it.Here in Hangzhou,im more worried about police who can't take her away,but this thing is also very very scary..

so cute dog and you are very pretty. Nice posting.

She is very cute!Im ok)))Thank you!

lul this puppy knows how to pose <3 so cute

Hahaha yeah she is such a supermodel ๐Ÿ˜Š

@damira Me and my partner live in China also, we teach Animation at a university. I'd love a dog if our situation was different. Happy is adorable :) Followed.

Thank you, Charlotte!You guys teach animation?How interesting!

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Your dog is adorable. I had the same thing happen to me but I didn't get a phone call. I heard a knock at my door while I was sitting in my bedroom. Before I could get to the door, I heard them try to open it...I was kind of surprised that they tried to let themselves in. I finally opened it and two cops had a sheet and asked for my passport. I guess pretty standard but hopefully they aren't just going in my apartment when I'm not home!

Thank you!)))
You know I "like" the most when people here knock and then right away try to open the door as if it their home, be it a delivery guy or a police doesn't matter, no manners.I sometimes say that next time there is no need to try opening the door, sometimes i just let it go, but it's really rude and annoying.I guess I was lucky with the call haha

Wubba lubba dub dub!!

Cute puppies