my heart is sad :(

i heard that a fairly famous market in seoul opened somewhere near my area on the 9th of every month. it being sunday, and me having the day wide open i decided to find it. i did and it was pretty interesting, and also heartbreaking. this market boasts a variety of vegetables, textiles, herbs and livestock. you can guess where this is going...
anyways, here are some pictures.





it was obvious to tell which animals were for eating and which were meant for pets.
this is the cutest dog ever! as everyone knows i'm sure, koreans sometimes use dogs as meat. i HOPE that this little guy wasn't meant for that though he was tied up in front of cages that clearly were.

for loving.
cute chickies.
bunnies.
chickens.
goats.
for eating. :( now, i've seen this a bunch of times before: that being dogs caged and sold for food. what made me almost lose my cookies was not this but the full smoked dogs that were being sold beside. i gagged. i also couldn't bring myself to take a picture and assumed that anyone who was a dog/animal lover wouldn't want to see it. those images have haunted me all day. RIGHT after seeing that i made it to the pet section where i met a golden retriever that i fell inlove with right away. if it weren't for the endless guilt for leaving the other hundreds of puppies behind i would have adopted him (no matter what mom and mike say!)
i don't know what was going on here. this guy isn't cutting those snakes, he was just stretching them out to a crowd of koreans. i took this picture and was promptly yelled at by 2 men. i don't know what's secret about this or why i can't take a picture of a snake being treated well, while it's ok for me to snap tons of pics of animals being treated in a way that would send PETA in it's entirety to korea with torches, but meh.

anyways, other than that i've been biking TONS and loving it.

miss you.