NEWS AND COMMENT: Depending upon your point of view, Kelly Walker, is either an angel or she is stupid. For me she is an angel. She loves animals and followed her heart. She saved £14,000 for a deposit for a home for herself and she spent it according to the Mirror newspaper to ship two …
Hairdresser spent £14,000 bringing two feral cats in Turkey to the UK Read More »
These are brilliant photographs of Imam Mustafa Efe interacting with the community cats which he allows into his mosque; the Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi Mosque in Istanbul’s historical Uskudar district. He is quite clear about it; the mosque should be a home for stray cats if they need it. Imam Mustafa Efe clearly loves animals. There …
NEWS/OPINION-TURKEY: The story is that a street cat, a calico cat in fact, carried her sick kitten into an Istanbul hospital for treatment. It was a demonstration of incredible motherly instincts, on the face of it. The cat dropped her kitten in front of medics in one of the treatment rooms, we are told. The …
Community cat carries kitten into A&E to be treated by doctors Read More »
Turgutlu, Turkey – news/opinion article: Ikram Korkmazer’s butcher’s shop has become a tourist attraction after three years of feeding stray cats and dogs and recording it all on video and publishing it on social media, specifically his Instagram page. I guess this has brought in more business. It is an example of positive karma. Be …
Turkish butcher becomes tourist attraction as he feeds cats and dogs Read More »
Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou) tweeted today, one hour ago, that he is in the City of Cats. In the photograph he is standing in front of a large mosque. I think it is the Blue Mosque of Istanbul, a city dubbed the City of Cats and sometimes referred to as …
Cat Stevens in the City of Cats and why he is called ‘Cat Stevens’ Read More »
A Turkish community cat attacks men but not women. The video clearly shows this. People are scratching their heads as to why this happens. The cat is outside a market in Istanbul, the country’s largest city. The cat’s antics have been picked up by security cameras. You can see that when a man passes the …
Community Cat Attacks Passing Men But Not Women. Why? Read More »
The Mail Online newspaper reports that a British woman, Tracy Marlor on holiday in Turkey, became very ill and, by implication, she blames sick cats who would eat from the tables. She described the hotel, the Paloma Foresta Resort and Spa, as a “five-star cattery”. The hotel has received very good reviews, incidentally. The picture …
Woman on Turkish holiday blames stray cats for her salmonella poisoning Read More »
This story comes from Turkey. It is extraordinary, it has to be said. A shop assistant at an electronics store, a mild mannered man in appearance whose name is Ahmet Dilaver, was jailed for allegedly provoking a community cat to attack a female customer. I use the word “allegedly” because even though he was charged, …
Shop assistant jailed for provoking community cat to attack customer Read More »
A Turkish online newspaper, Hurriyet Daily News, reports that toxoplasmosis has caused partial blindness in two Turkish women. Both women come from the Western province of Izmir. One woman loves cats and the other is allergic to them. “A cat-borne parasite has caused two Turkish women to lose their eye sights” One woman is a …
Is it true that toxoplasmosis partially blinded two Turkish women? Read More »
This is a super little video. It comes from Turkey. A road sweeper using what appears to be an old-fashioned broom made of selected twigs (or a similar material) starts to gently brush the paws of a street cat. This encourages the cat to request more brushing and then in an act of trust she …
Turkish road sweeper’s act of kindness towards a street cat Read More »
This is a little vignette of Turkish street life. There is a cat resting on a mini-blanket in what appears to be a shop front. Firstly a woman in a grey coat comes by and pets the cat. Then the abusive woman comes by. At the moment she approaches, the cat knocks the blanket onto …
Woman ‘steals blanket’ from stray cat and strikes the cat with the blanket Read More »
This is the story of Leo, a stray cat living on the streets of Ankara, Turkey who one day decided good food and an excellent caregiver were only part of having a good life. Leo wanted a home to call his very own, and set about to make his dream of a forever family come …
Stray cat living on the streets of Turkey enters vehicle and finds a forever home Read More »
This is a trailer for a full-length feature film about the cats of Istanbul called ‘Kedi’. It is made by Termite Films. The director is Ceyda Torun and the star is Bülent Üstün. It gets an 8.4 out of 10 on the imdb.com website. I guess the film is really about seeing the ancient city …
This is another good news cat story. We like them because there are too many bad news cat stories. Most cats in Turkey are “free-living”. Another term is “community cats”. They don’t have owners. They share their time between a group of caretakers. Somehow this seems more natural for the domestic cat. It certainly works …
Free-living Istanbul cat remembered in a bronze statue Read More »
