Coronavirus: in China, the pandemic payoff has been good for pets, with interest in them increasing

When Celia Zhang, an employee at a Beijing internet company, left the city for her hometown in the central province of Hubei in mid-January, she did not expect to be trapped there by a pandemic – or that she would be separated from her cat, Yahaha, for three months.While Hubei, epicentre of the first coronavirus outbreak, was under lockdown, Zhang, 27, scrambled to order cat food from e-commerce platforms, sought help from friends and kind strangers via social media and frequently checked on…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3102101/coronavirus-china-pandemic-payoff-has-been-good-pets-interest