I stopped into South City Shopping Centre this afternoon to get a couple things and found they were having a market day. The Centre had bales of hay all throughout, face painting, dancing demonstrations, balloon animals, lots of bargains, and a stall for a business called Pony Parties. It was at the Pony Parties stall that I found a chicken very comfortably sitting on the back of a donkey. As the donkey moved around the chicken barely noticed. All the animals at the stall were pretty placid, despite all the attention and noise, they could have been in a quiet farmyard.
The animals of Christchurch 