🐱 “Fuzzy Fuzzy" is China's first celebrity cat to branch out into the lucrative world of modelling telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/2…
📸While Mao Mao diligently avoids catwalks, he can mostly be seen lounging on the bonnets of sports cars for which he rakes in between 5,000 to 15,000 yuan (£550 to £1,650 pounds) per photo shoot.
🐱 In recent years, China has witnessed a rise in pet influencers that earn money through ads promoting pet supplies on social media.
Some felines have as many as 500k followers on Weibo, while over a million Chinese people tune in to pet-related livestreams every day
💸But as Zheng Zhi, Mao Mao's owner, explains that his cat works on a more traditional business model.
Aside from working as a car model, Mao Mao can also model for jewellery brands.
In fact, Mao Mao, earns more than an average human model in China.
📸“A car model earns 800-1500 yuan (£80-150) modelling one day, but Mao Mao is paid 2,000 yuan (£200) for half a day,” says Zheng Zhi, Mao Mao's owner
🐱 China has long cherished cats, which have been the focus of annual worship in previous dynasties and were kept as pets of the aristocracy as symbols of good luck, depending on the colour of the fur.
Right from the start, there were two plausible explanations for where the Covid virus might have come from.
1⃣The virus jumped naturally to people from some animal host
2⃣The virus escaped from a virus research lab
🦇"Yet for the past year mainstream media around the world have ignored this common sense possibility in favour of the scenario that the virus jumped naturally to people from some animal host" says Nicholas Wade
🗣️On Friday night, Sir Richard Dearlove, a former head of MI6, said the situation was becoming an "intelligence issue" where British security services may need to "incentivise" Chinese defectors to get to the truth if China did not open up its research to scrutiny
📩Letters seen by The Telegraph show that last April vaccine specialists contacted several journals over concerns that structural details in the virus which looked man-made were being ignored
The source said: "If there was enough evidence to suggest that there was something, and that we needed to do it as well as the US, then of course we'd think about it...There's all sorts of things that we wouldn't rule out"
"Who hasn’t felt peeved, like cash-strapped Phoebe, at having to fork out for yet another fancy restaurant meal when you can really only afford tap water and half a basket of grissini?"