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[Uncle Sparky]

Wait... those bowls of gruel people leave by their door are for cats, not tourists?! ,,,oops.

[Bereta_Eder]

That's actually how you get a cat. At some point sooner or later a baby cat starts following you.
I had that happen but couldn't take her in. It was a bit sad.
They are the happiest in the islands because of all the fish

[Bereta_Eder]

Istambul is full of cats everywhere. I never saw so many cats in a city, and people treat them very well. I was surprised to see in the old city many people left food by the front door every day for the street cats. And the reason for all this love for cats is that they saved the city from many plagues throughout it's long history.

I thought it was the same all over the world.
It is certaintly the same here

[Uncle Sparky]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/15/silence-the-story-israeli-strike-on-media-offices-gaza-condemned

Israel bombs AP/ Al-Jazeera building in Gaza.

Trump disappointed he didn't think of that first.

[Uncle Sparky]

But drawing a gun in the US is just their way of saying 'Hello'...

[BeBMan]

Pokémon card sales at major US retailer halted over security fears

US retail giant Target is suspending in-store sales of Pokémon and sports trading cards amid safety concerns as customers vie for the collectibles.

Target, which has more than 1,900 outlets in the US, made the decision after a man drew a gun in a fight over cards outside a store in Wisconsin.

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A fight broke out in a car park outside a Target in Brookfield, Wisconsin, on 7 May, after four men allegedly assaulted another man over sports trading cards, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

The victim, who had a licence to carry a concealed gun, ended the fight by drawing his weapon, police say.

No shots were fired, and the four men ranging in age from 23 to 35 fled and were later arrested.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57124256

[SlowwHand]

https://www.newsweek.com/cat-jumps-five-stories-burning-building-survives-1591439

[toWERS]

Istambul is full of cats everywhere. I never saw so many cats in a city, and people treat them very well. I was surprised to see in the old city many people left food by the front door every day for the street cats. And the reason for all this love for cats is that they saved the city from many plagues throughout it's long history.

[toWERS]

Sure, let's fill the streets with rats to stop the plague and then we can inject ourselves some bleach :b :

[Dauphin]

Not sure I buy that.

I’ve heard opposite arguments - that large rat populations actually decrease the chance of spread to humans compared to small populations. The fleas that spread the disease prefer rat hosts, and so would only feed from, and so infect, a human host if there were no nearby rats to live on. More rats, lower likelihood of picking a human to feed on.

Outbreaks of plague would therefore occur if there were a sudden decline in rat population in the area, causing the fleas to seek new human hosts, en masse.

[Uncle Sparky]

All Obama's fault.

[Berzerker]

dont know if this is true but i heard one of the reasons the plague hit Europe so hard was they killed cats out of superstition allowing for more rats to spread

and the plague coincided with the little ice age so rats and people were spending more time inside

[SlowwHand]

Go cats!

[Uncle Sparky]

I bet a witch came up with that plan! Burn the witches!

[SlowwHand]

Don't like cats? I do. There are worse things.

Animal Rescue Has Released 1,000 Feral Cats into Chicago's Streets to Combat City's Rat Problem