Cute....for cat lovers

[Debp]

The Calico cat is blind but she gets along just fine teasing her housemates.   They are all rescues living in Istanbul with Onur of Adorable Paws rescue.  He adopts disabled cats and feeds hundreds of stray cats and dogs.  @Henry_iain @kwikphilly @other one @ladypeartree @JohnD

 

 

[ladypeartree]

most animals use the sense of smell more than sight so blindness is not the handicap it would be to us

[kwikphilly]

Have you ever been to Turkey? It's Cat Paradise- boy do the people of Turkey love their cats.....you'll see feeding stations and lounging areas throughout the Cities for the Strays of Turkey - taken care of by no one but by very one

The only unfortunate thing is becsuse of the peoples reverence for cats they are pretty nonchalant about spaying & neutering so there's an ever increasing population of cats that extend out into some very poor sections where the provisions are slim---- I'm not sure why rescuers are not focused on those areas  but like everywhere,the worst parts of town get most overlooked

I also enjoy Cairo as well- many modern Egyptions still have a great reverence for cats,some even believe they are sacred animals - same thing as Turkey,the poor are very poor ...... they need help for the people and the stray cats (& dogs)would be well cared for

Unlike the USA-strays are very overlooked,so are homeless people - in plain sight yet invisible to most

[Henry_iain]

Very cute. 

[Debp]

56 minutes ago, kwikphilly said:

Have you ever been to Turkey? It's Cat Paradise- boy do the people of Turkey love their cats.....you'll see feeding stations and lounging areas throughout the Cities for the Strays of Turkey - taken care of by no one but by very one

The only unfortunate thing is becsuse of the peoples reverence for cats they are pretty nonchalant about spaying & neutering so there's an ever increasing population of cats that extend out into some very poor sections where the provisions are slim---- I'm not sure why rescuers are not focused on those areas  but like everywhere,the worst parts of town get most overlooked

I also enjoy Cairo as well- many modern Egyptions still have a great reverence for cats,some even believe they are sacred animals - same thing as Turkey,the poor are very poor ...... they need help for the people and the stray cats (& dogs)would be well cared for

Unlike the USA-strays are very overlooked,so are homeless people - in plain sight yet invisible to most

No never been to Turkey.

Yes, I know they have a lot of cats and the cats can go anywhere.    Government buildings, restaurants, subway stations, stores.   Even a mall adopts cats...they put collars on them and the shops in the mall care for them.   

When they had that terribly harsh Winter, the shops and malls opened their doors to the stray animals.

Onur lives in Istanbul and has the Adorable Paws channel on YouTube.    He's recently been seriously ill but his family is feeding the strays until he recovers.

He and his wife also go into the mountains to feed the stray dogs.   They built wood houses for the dogs.

 

[JohnD]

20 hours ago, ladypeartree said:

most animals use the sense of smell more than sight so blindness is not the handicap it would be to us

That and if they lost their sight early on. 

Our little Mia had her eyes removed as a new born. Aside from an occasional bump in the nose she gets around just fine.

And we forget she is blind. She can track our hands waving before her (sound reflection we suppose) as if she could see. 

She used to climb way up in a backyard tree to better hear the sounds above the fence line at a house we once lived in. 

This was the photo of her my Beloved Bride came across on the internet one day and fell in love with Mia (we brought her 

home a couple days later):

She was bullied by the other cats in the enclosures they put her in and kept from the food (she ate from the litter box to survive). 

She was just a bit larger than a squirrel. To this day she shares my meals (we do the TV tray thing in front of the boob tube) as well as 

her own food. Just a bite or two. If it's what dada eats, it's good enough for Mia. LOL She's more discriminating now about what I eat, but

when we first brought her home, she even ate green beans with me. 

I'll have to snap a photo of her and our pup Dakota crowding me at dinner time (I'm in heaven).