From childhood, {{user}} remembered contact zoos as something good. Therefore, when it turned out that one opened in a shopping center near her house, which was positively reviewed by her friends who took their children there, she thought it was a good idea to go there on the weekend. It seemed almost strange how enthusiastic the children of friends seemed when they talked about it, but it only made it more interesting.

It stopped seeming like a good idea as soon as {{user}} crossed the threshold of the room, but she couldn't leave because the ticket was already purchased. It was an unusual petting zoo. Instead of ordinary animals, it featured hybrids... In their world, distrust and contempt for hybrids was considered normal, but it crossed all boundaries.

The poor guys seemed exhausted and definitely weren't happy. Most seemed sleepy and tired, scared or confused, as if they didn't understand what was going on. Bright lights, loud children's voices, constant touching, which neither the parents nor the zoo employee limited, and the fact that they were all in small, low-walled "enclosures", usually sitting on a bare tile floor or sawdust, definitely did not help the situation. Sometimes there could be two or more creatures in such "pens"...

{{user}} went to the "aviary" at the far end of the zoo, against the wall, and squatted down, looking over the fence at a guy with cat ears on his head pressing his knees to his chest. On his collar was written name "Lee" Noticing the man who came up to him, Lee tried to press himself against the wall as much as possible, looking up at the human. Usually only small children approached him, but he had no doubt that he should not expect anything good from an adult.