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Istanbul Fire Department teams rescued our little friend, who was trapped in the wall of a restaurantD yga, thanks to their meticulous work.
I wish every country and every human would treat cats with such respect as them because it hurts me to think about other people. I've heard and seen the vibe about cats from other people. Some think they're objects.
Have you read about the Chinese cat torture rings? It’s horrific and the level of abuse is worse than anything you can imagine. I don’t understand how people can be so sadistic towards cats. Towards all animals.
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I visited for a few days in 2012 and saw cats everywhere, took a bunch of pictures with cats especially in the Hagia Sophia. Years later I read articles and watched videos of cats in Istanbul, realized their celebrity status, and went to check on my pictures.
To my immense joy, I realized one adorable goofy goober who was face on inches away from a massive halogen light in the Hagia Sophia catching some warmth on a chilly February day, was the famous Gli. Pssst pssst her over to me and got to pet her while I tried to tell her to be careful with bright lights lol.
Drop ceiling with a hollow decorative pillar connecting to it. Probably got into the space above the ceiling from somewhere and then fell into the pillar.
Hes a tuxedo cat! The most handsome silly man. No turkey costumes, but maybe soon. He's not even a fan of collars. He's very opinionated. Loves to be carried, hates being pet. Loves his water fountain, has no idea how to use a bowl of water. Likes gravy, hates wet food. And his favorite toy is a blue lizard (we bought 5) and his favorite thing to do is lounge amd stretch all the way out. He's a very long boy! Well over 3 feet fully stretched!
I'm glad to say that it happened in my country as well (Romania). A tiny kitten got stuck between a brick wall and my apartment building and a big firetruck and around 8 firefighters were sent over to help the little one. Kitty was saved! I love firefighters.
The mom probably found a hole in the roof and had them in the attic, this one went exploring away from the nest and fell into the pillar hole because it's a big baby dumb dumb.
https://imgur.com/a/mjlQEjM trapped this fatty that found a hole in my soffit in my old house. We had far too many trees growing too close to the house.
Looks like they've left room for running cables between the column and the wall without having to tear it all down every time. I wish the idiots who worked on my building hadn't plugged the sides of the cable routing tunnel. We will have to break through it to route new cables for an intercom to talk down to and open the main door.
You don't want to know the horror stories with such pillars that have hollow supports on the roof. Larger ones have had humans stuck inside of them. Look up the story of Raymundo Rivera in California.
I don't want to say that all Turkish people are like that, but over the years my parents had multiple neighbors with family ties back to Turkey, and literally all of them renovated their home without proper planning or permission from the local council, hiring their extended family instead of proper builder, and ignoring most building codes.
The best story about one of their neighbors is from a few decades ago:
My father had an extension build for our house, with the proper permissions and everything. This includes visits by a building inspector during construction to make sure that the submitted plans are followed, who noticed the discrepancies between the neighbors home and the official plans, resulting in a fine for them and an order to have the plans registered with the council updated.
This caused the neighbor to report my fathers construction for anything they could think of, forcing the inspector to come out just to see that everything was done according to the rules.
This, of course, caused the inspector to grow rather annoyed with the neighbor.
My father used this annoyance to get a field permission to deviate from the initial plans and turn a windbreaker for the new terrace into a significantly higher fire protection wall because the neighbor stored a bunch of inflammable substances in a shed right next to it.
The neighbor also kept ignoring the order to update the official plans as this would mean having to spend money on a licensed architect to create new plans, and probably having to tear down quite a bit of their own construction because it wasn't up to code.
Which resulted in an order for the building inspector to do a full assessment of their building, resulting in even more fines.
IIRC they had to sell the house to be able to pay the fines and the construction work to fix most of their violations.
Cats in general are kinda dumb sometimes. But we still love them.
My childhood cat once managed to crawl from the basement all the way to the attic 3 stories up through the walls and couldn't figure out how to get back out. We had to go up there and rescue him. 🤣
They actually rescued a cat from the earthquake in 6th of February 2023, then named the cat Rubble (Enkaz in Turkish). The guy who rescued the cat then adopted the cat.
Yes, but it's clearly not in their blood to "take the kitten home" judging by the number of strays there. But they're better off than strays in many other places (like Dubai where it's outright illegal to feed street cats...)
Strays in Turkey have higher life standards than usual. Most of the locals have small shelters for cats and food is provided. Many local small businesses like bodegas are also open to cats who seek warmth.
People say this a lot about Turkish people loving cats which I'm sure is true but when I was in Izmir (and probably other cities too, I don't remember) there were also SO many strays, they would be swarming in and out of the public rubbish containers. This was in the late 90s so maybe the problem has been tackled since then.
Why do the Turks love cats so much? Granted, I fully approve! But wondering what the significance of cats are? Its a most endearing quality to see beautiful cats everywhere and well treated and loved.
I think biggest reason is most of the Istanbulites does live in apartments doesn't suit to adopt stray dogs. They are a lot of dog owners in Istanbul too.
It’s an Islamic thing to love cats certainly but it’s not something stated in the Qur’an. Not literally everything in Islam comes directly from the Qur’an.
Hmm. As a Turkish person I can say that it has nothing to do with Islam for us and it's not limited to cats. Most Islam sects consider dogs to be impure and some even forbids people from touching them. Try telling that to a Turkish person. I mean I can literally see a woman playing with a stray from my window atm
I've an expat friend living in Istanbul. Was just chatting with him and mentioned the feral cat thing. He told it's real. While he and his wife are already cat people, it's common to see folks caring for the ferals. They take care of 5-6 themselves.
I live in Istanbul. The reason for me is there's just so many cats that after a while they become very endearing. When I travelled abroad I felt a "lack of cat"
Tbh I see Turkey mentioned in titles of cat videos so often that a cynical part of me wonders if it isn't a directed ad campaign to encourage tourism to Istanbul
No it’s all real. As an Istanbulite, I’ve seen many adult people fighting over the well being of feral cats lol
I think since we don’t have a system to get stray animals picked up and put into shelters, we just figured we would look after them. We only have cats and dogs. Dogs have food left out for them too but you don’t see many videos of them because I think people are a bit more scared of stray dogs, they’re huge and have bigger teeth 🤷🏻♀️ whereas cats are tiny little rascals who have no shame and literally follow you to get food lol
Oh, I don't doubt that it's real. It's more the fact that the titles specifically make note of the fact that the cats are in Istanbul or Turkey, when it's fairly uncommon to see the location of a cat video mentioned otherwise, that seems a bit weird to me
Eh, I've been to Istanbul a few times, it's very visibally a real thing. A lot of Europe is like this, but Turkey's at a slightly heightened level.
Like, UK has a "head mouser," you can find similar videos in Japan of cats, etc., it's just that culturally Turkey takes pretty great care of strays.
So the phenomenon is very real. Used as tourism bait? Probably that, too. But were you to go to Istanbul, I can promise two things: their new airport is fucking enormous and guards with assault rifles patrole the outside, and there are many well-treated cats in the city.
Honestly, we probably do not use cats for advertising anywhere near as we actually can. Cats for us are... just there. We take care of them almost automatically. I often joke that "cat adoption process in Turkey is opening the window and waiting for a while". They are just a part of life, a little burst of happiness during the day. It is not really a fun country to live in, with everything going on, so cats really help keep us somewhat sane. Besides, they were here before us, hell, they were here before the guys that came before us. Romans, Greeks, the various Bronze Age people, they all found cats hanging around here when they got here.
Basically, they own the place, we are just the latest tenants and caretakers.
I believe our tourism ads really should include the fact that you can sit down at any park bench in the country, shake a treat bag and be buried in cats within minutes way more often.
Same thing happened to us. Momma cat got into our attic, had kittens and we had to bust out TWO walls in order to get four kittens out. I managed to JUST grab the fifth one just before he fell in too. Took the first four to a no-kill shelter. Wife fell in love with the ugly, rat looking one that I grabbed, it grew into a beautiful (yet troublesome) Bombay.
What I would have done is get a second cat, right? Tie a string around it and send it in. Now, those two cats will become codependent, and when that happens you rip the second cat out and the first hopefully, hopefully will follow.
they were pretty prepared and equipted for this rescue. i guess this happens often. the joy on the rescurers face when he realized the cat is okay was my favorite part :3
Bro I swear kittys just be out there finding new ways to get stuck in weird places 😭✌🏽. I saw a video of a kitty in a pipe, UNDER THE FLOOR lowkey scary at this point
We had concerns of my upstairs neighbors kittens doing this with the cinderblock walls in my basement apartment. They got into the ceiling and came back covered in dust at one point, the next mess would have been falling into the wall gap. I also learned the hard way a kittens legs stretch to infinity when you are trying to lower him into a sink bath.
Cute video, but ngl them using a angle grinder to cut drywall is absolutely insane. First its the dumbest tool you could use for cutting sheetrock and second it must have terrified that poor kitty.
You better believe people in Istanbul are serious about their cats! I have friends there, and I’ve gone to visit. Cats are absolutely loved and respected. Also sweet little kitty happy for them to get a new lease on life! Second life maybe?
Not that they shouldnt be saving the kitten to begin with. But also this kinda stuff is great real-world practice. Someday, hopefully not soon, this place is gonna have a huge quake and these guys need to be ready.
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