A lovely movie for cat lovers!!!
Definitely a movie for cat lovers and animal lovers! I enjoyed the stories about the lives and human friends of some of the street cats in Istanbul. I’m not use to subtitles and had to re-watch a couple of times to get all the English translation, but even the first viewing I got the gist of everything. Cats have run free in Istanbul for thousands of years since first introduced by ancient ships. The people there regard them as a good luck tradition.
I was very favorably impressed with the tolerance the Turkish people of Istanbul have toward their free roaming cats (unlike in the U.S. where way too many citizens, communities, cities, towns, want feral cats exterminated en mass instead of TNR!!) Even the few trades people in Istanbul who don’t like the cats only shoo them away from their goods—not threaten to kill them! And many stores welcome the cats going in and sleeping there for hours. (Nothing is ever said about how the Turks elsewhere in their country regard street cats—only Istanbul.) Yet, it is such a stark contrast to Americans’ attitude toward homeless cats!!! Nowhere in America would street cats be treated as well as they are there. Here Ally Cat Allies and others who feed feral cats and use TNR frequently have to fight community citizens and governments to let feral cats live in peace! But in Kedi (which is the Turkish word for cat) most of the cats had many human friends, in fact most humans were their friends, instead of harassers! But even in Istanbul where they are okay in the older traditional neighborhoods; ‘progress’ in the form of urban renewal type destruction for high-rise buildings or skyscrapers and superhighways is creating problems for the cats’ habitat. These Istanbul cats are healthy, handsome, friendly and trusting of humanity. A lovely movie for cat lovers!!!
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