Source: Global Times
Cats can be said to be the most popular ambassadors of travel, and without cats, postcard sales in the Greek Islands would certainly be greatly reduced. There are many destinations around the world that are famous for cats and attract tourists, and I have traveled specifically to see cats.
Clean stray cats on the streets of Singapore.
Although Kotor in the Republic of Montenegro is a beautiful city, there will be less lazy charm without cats. According to local legend, the Montenegrins believed that cats saved Kotor, and as sailors arrived in Kotor's cats, they wiped out rats and poisonous snakes that ran rampant in the city. Locals love cats and appreciate them, feeding and caring for them every day, and even a cat museum, the most important square in the town center, also known as the cat's square.
It is said that in the past, Tashiroshima was extremely infested with rats, so many cats were introduced, and because of the love of cats by the islanders and the favor of Japanese culture for cats, many rare and valuable cats were introduced. However, there are news reports that due to overbreeding, the welfare and life of some cats are not as good as people think, and many old, weak, sick and disabled cats are actually "shielded" and cannot enter the eyes of tourists.
Turkey's largest lake, Van Lake, is located in the eastern Part of the Anatolian Plateau, where I visited many years ago to see cats. The famous local Van Lake cat, with white hair, blue eyes and amber yellow, is very beautiful, and is also good at swimming and can go into the water to catch fish. It's just that the author didn't see the cat swimming, it is estimated that it looks too cute, someone feeds, and there is no need to jump into the lake to fish.
Strictly speaking, I have never had a cat, but when I was a child, my family opened a shop in Singapore, and there were often cats in the store. We need these cats to catch mice, about seven or eight shop cats enjoying freedom, someone to feed regularly, and an exclusive cat bed. Stray cats in Singapore, like the city, look clean and decent, and are cared for by many cat lovers. Singaporeans call them community cats.
One of the legislators in the ruling party is a well-known animal activist who often asks for the lives of cats. Although many Singaporeans keep cats in HDB houses, it is actually illegal to keep cats in HDBs. Puzzlingly, dogs can be kept in HDB houses but not cats, on the grounds that cats will "visit the door" and make noise at will.
Official statistics in Singapore in 2014 showed that there were about 50,000 stray cats. If you travel to Singapore, you will find that many stray cats have their ears cut off a small horn, which means that the cat has been castrated or ligated, so it is not easy to hear the sound of cats calling spring in Singapore and seeing a litter of kittens waiting to be fed.
The most famous cat in Singapore is the pull cat, but it is not very common in the local area, and this famous cat is now very expensive, it is said that a cat cub is about $2,000. At the Gavinna Bridge, which spans the Singapore River, the discerning traveler will find 3 statues of Singaporean cats on the bridge, 15 of which are said to have been destroyed or stolen. In the 1990s, the Singapore Tourism Board took a fancy to the appeal of the Singapore cat, and even selected it as an image ambassador, designed a variety of posters and statues, and also took a Nanyang style name kucinta, from the Malay language kuchin (cat) and cinta (amiable), Chinese translated as "kissable it", sindaya.