Goats in Sweaters, Monkey Thugs, Puppies 🇮🇳 And The Most Oppressed Animals of Varanasi - Cats 😢

 As soon as you buy a ticket to the next destination, the place you are in acquires the flavor of a reminiscence... That's what happened to Varanasi after I recently purchased a ticket from Delhi to Tbilisi, Georgia... I am still here, in India, but feel like it's already slightly in the past - the past, I will miss one day. And one of the main things I will miss is the "zoo", which you can enjoy daily on the Varanasi streets. Let's start with the most fashionable creatures.  I don't know why Varanasi goats often wear sweaters,  whether this is because they just look fancier or bring more milk when they feel warmer...  But the fact is that goats in Varanasi often look more fashionable than other animals.  Another advantage of clothing on goats - you can easily recognize a goat you've already seen: a goat's coloring is harder to remember than the color and design of the sweater it wears.  For example, this goat in a burgundy sweater is often seen at the ghats, and is known to be a skillful thief. She tries to steal from chilling people and vendors.  When you arrive in Varanasi, you call these animals just "a goat" or "a sheep" but soon you realize: these are not just general "goats" and "sheep", but characters, each well-known by local people - like the goat in the burgundy sweater, or this sheep:  It is a disabled sheep with crooked forelegs (probably, birth trauma). It might be a stray. This creature is always at the ghat, and often hobbles in search of dropped food at the stairs, and is often surrounded by puppies who love her warm wool and sometimes eat her shit - I don't know why.  The streets of Varanasi are home to many stray dogs and their puppies.  Some of them get support from locals like those in the image above and others live in dusty corners and sometimes look doomed to die.  That's the perfect representation of old Varanasi's lanes, with doggies sleeping here and there.  They sleep most of the time. I guess they just wait for someone to feed them + after 8 pm, the lanes are less crowded, and that's the time when dogs are more active. They never attack people but can fight against each other for the territory.  Cows are cool, but I prefer […]