cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/20064636
Turkey seems low, but I guess public cats aren't technically "owned". :)
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2024
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- "No, I don't own any cats..."
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Checks out. I have three cats, and one porch kitty.
They belong to the king!
(The king of cats, not the other guy)
Romanians go prrrr
brb moving to romania
You don't see many cats out and about in Bucharest. Best move to Greece (or Turkey, I hear). In Athens the city microchips and makes sure "stray" cats and dogs get veterinary care. Public parks are filled with cats so you can't eat your lunch without making a few friends, and you can't park a motorcycle without a cat parking itself on the seat. Even the hill the Acropolis is on is covered in cats.
brb moving to athens
When i was in bulgaria there were also many cats and i made a friend there.
Greece and Turkey heavily skewed because nobody owns the community cats
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Not the point of the graphic at all, but this is the second time recently I saw the spelling “Turkiye” and was wondering the context behind that change, wondering if it was anything like the change in the spelling of Kyiv (which has now been so engrained in my head that I had to go look up the Russian spelling “Kiev”).
I looked it up and it appears Türkiye has been their own spelling for over 100 years, and they just petitioned the UN to update the spelling of the country’s name in 2021.
Cool, so Türkiye it is! (Plus my phone automatically adds the umlaut, so that’s handy!)
Also in Türkiye they don’t own cats, the cats own them.
The reason for its change was the names association with the animal, the gov didn't like it. But like nobody from turkey actually cares, it's just a formal thing. Funny thing: we call India Hindistan (which means land of the turkey).
Does it affect the spelling?
You're supposed to read it in Turkish. It is "týɾ.ci.je" in phonetic but you're better off googling its pronunciation.
Yeah, the asked the international community not to call them after a ~~water fowl~~ big chicken anymore and use their native name for the country instead. Officially it always was "Republic of Türkiye" and not Turkey anyways.
The funny thing is the bird is called turkey after the country (despite being american), not the other way around.
Turkey is so low, becuse the cats own them not the other way around.
Yep, they reached the point where they acknowledge you can't really "own" a cat.
It can go either way. There are some community cats in my neighborhood but also we have one feral rescue in our house who definitely knows our house is home. She goes out a couple times a day and rarely uses a litter box but she always comes right back in. Even if it's a beautiful day and she stays outside longer, she stays right by the house.
“owning”
Don't know why the contrast between Portugal and Spain is so funny to me.
The only reason Portugal exists is because Spain was a dog centric society and they banished all the cat people to one corner of the peninsula thousands of years ago.
(This might be true, but that would be quite the coincidence since I just made it up)
So say we all.
Not a reddit fan anymore, but this makes me think of r/portugalcykablyat
I’m a little surprised Turkey came in at only 14%
No one owns them when it's all over the streets I guess lol
Eastern europe W
What’s up with Romania?
Romania is easily explained with the fact that a lot of it is rural and basically everyone living in a village has a cat. There are also stray city cats that people feed that they might consider as theirs.
Turkey and Greece are a bit more surprising to me. I guess people don't consider stray cats theirs even if they feed them.
You're given a kitten at birth.
I need to see their definition of cat ownership. I'm not (much of) an idiot, but my cats are smarter than me so I'd consider them the owners. They lay around all day and get treats whenever they want, after all. Only work they have to do is get snuggles when I want and eat bugs, which is something they seem to enjoy. I mean, if I could figure out how to get that kind of arrangement wouldn't you?
The lowest-numbered will have the most wild birds.
That sounds logical, but if you look at the map, there are countries with low ownership like Greece, Italy and Turkey, where there are loads of street cats everywhere. There are many cats there, just not so many owners. There can be less birds in countries with street cats compared to countries where cats are kept mainly indoors.
I don't know, but for Germany that seems way too high. Maybe I just don't see all the indoor cats in the cities (where more than 75% of the people live).
Really? It seemed low to me?
But I'm a cat person and pay special attention when someone mentions their Katze.