Bodega cats are famous. Particularly the New York bodega cats. And domestic cats are famously attracted to sources of warmth. The shops might get quite chilly during the winter with the front door open. And all devices on standby, as they must be in a shop, will emit heat. This includes freezers and chillers …
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A large rat which crept into a Rome supermarket and helped itself at the deli counter in front of customers has become a sensation and racked up more than half a million views on the Instagram page where it has been published under the account name WELCOMETOFAVELAS_. Customers asked how it was possible and …
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There are some excellent pictures of Bodega cats on Facebook. They really do capture the spirit of the community of these 10,000 corner shops in New York City which are characterised by their resident domestic cats who add to the ambience tremendously, I think. I think that customers like them too. However, it seems …
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NEAR NORWICH, UK – OPINION/NEWS STORY: Pumpkin is not a grocery at the Drayton branch (near Norwich) of the Tesco supermarket. He is a ginger tabby-and-white, six-year-old domestic cat and he loves to visit the store. He’s been a regular visitor for well over a year but in November 2019 the staff at the …
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This is New York, the home of Bodega cats. Bodega cats are community cats who live in delicatessen and general stores in New York. They are cared for by the community and perhaps a particular shopkeeper. In this example a Bodega cat by the name of Lexi, a female tabby-and-white, lived in and around …
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This is a story about an autistic boy’s love for a young cat, the theft of that cat and the intriguing question of whether a theft took place…. Jonathans’s love for Luna Ismael Diaz’s autistic son, Jonathan, loves their shop’s cat, Luna. Jonathan’s family run a deli in the Bronx, NY and you might …
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Bodega cats live in bodegas! Europeans probably won’t know what a bodega is. I didn’t until I looked it up. New Yorkers will know. In the UK we might call them a “corner shop”. In America people call them a “corner store”. Not very different. In New York City a corner shop selling a …
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