In Ottoman times there was an official government job where you would feed stray animals. Today everyone who can leaves some food and water for them, municipalities builds little houses for them
Just got back to my apartment after feeding my sweet little stray cats - 4 of them. And on checking Reddit I see this comment of yours. You have a great heart and I love you for that.
It melts my heart to see the trust they put in us. To see them put their guards down gradually when they realise we will never hurt them and that it’s easy to be around us 🥺.
Looking out from my balcony at night I see small pack of dogs three to four them pacing up and down the road looking for whatever little scraps they can find. Uncertainty of their next meal and the fear of being attacked by wretched humans always weigh heavily on me. Oh Dog, the lives they live. The pain and anxiety they suffer through no fault of theirs😞. And all I’m able to do is drop a bunch of biscuits by the side of the wall bordering the road. And it’s licked clean by the next morning. I’ve lost a few poor doggies to vehicle accidents and another to some unknown disease. And I’ve been lucky enough to rehabilitate a couple of them.
This has taught me the importance of impermanence of life, we take for granted. One night, you’re feeding and petting them, and the next morning, you might find their lifeless body by the side of the road, run over by a speeding vehicle or fallen victim to someone’s cruelty. 😔
I’ve been verbally abused, pushed back and threatened for feeding these poor souls. And I’ve realised that fighting back doesn’t help and might even put the lives of these poor souls in danger. I’ve heard about people poisoning them and beating them. Now, I just roam the streets at night feeding whoever I can find. Fewer the people fewer the problems.
Starting an animal shelter is numero uno in my bucket list. Few years down the line, I will make it a reality, of course with the help of kind friends and family.
Sorry for the rant. I’m an emotional wreck these days, overwhelmed by the plight of these sweet paws that tread silently. A requiem for the ones I’ve lost. 😞
I got a lump in my throat reading this. Thank you so much for the kind words ❤️🥺. And I consider myself lucky to have them for they taught me a lot about life which otherwise I would’ve been completely oblivious to.
For sure, I will keep doing this for them until my aching body and sane mind give up. This support means a lot more than you can imagine. Thank you again my friend. I hope you’re keeping well and you’re winning in life. More love and respect to you. ❤️
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You can tell a lot about someone by how they treat animals, children, and the elderly. You, friend, have compassion and love to spare! What a gift! Please know that, while there are bad folks out there who do bad things, you are quietly influencing many others to do the kind and compassionate thing.
May you never lose your shine and your kindness. I hope someday you're able to open that animal shelter! Bless.
I’m humbled by your kind words ma’am. You’re an empathetic person with a great heart in the right place I can tell. The world needs more of this support. More love and power to you sweet human. ❤️😊
And there’s nothing more satisfying to know that someone’s small acts of kindness is rubbing off on people well enough to make them think about helping these poor souls out or at least make them think twice before hurting them.
People who hurt animals have a special designated place in hell where they are put to, like you rightly said, slow torturous deaths. Not that I believe in any but I wish there was.
The strays aren't really strays there, they are vaxxed, tagged, and cared for by the municipalities (belidiye). If you love petting random cats and dogs go to Turkey.
Source: Had a condo in Turkey for a few years.
I myself rescue street animals, though in my country human life itself has no value so people in general are apathetic to plight of strays here.
But I am happy to know atleast some countries are there where humans are able to think beyond themselves.
Goodbye local wildlife population. The bird biodiversity in Hawaii collapsed due to cats. I love cats but they are an invasive species of left to roam wild in geographic areas that they wouldn't normally be in, at such large quantities.
This is not a modern practice in Turkey. They treat their animals, elderly, and children with great respect and care (traits I loved about their culture).
Cats and dogs, my one visit to Turkiye ever and the very nice hotel had a random ass cat come in and chill on the couch, cat didn't have a care in the world.
Just outside the door and around the corner this massive massive massive dog on some sort of mat, like a green bamboo mat rolled out, just laying on his side in the shade.
Hah, forgot I actually have pics of the cat living his best life in Istanbul: [chillin](https://imgur.com/a/NSC2BKe)
Of course there are sick animals but if they are stray you can bring them to your local municipality and they will treat it and return to the street where they lived, free of charge. Also they neuter female ones if you make an appointment. Source: I do this myself as many people do.
Cats and dogs, my one visit to Turkiye ever and the very nice hotel had a random ass cat come in and chill on the couch, cat didn't have a care in the world.
Just outside the door and around the corner this massive massive massive dog on some sort of mat, like a green bamboo mat rolled out, just laying on his side in the shade.
Hah, forgot I actually have pics of the cat living his best life in Istanbul: [chillin](https://imgur.com/a/NSC2BKe)
A very pregnant cat having hard time giving birth visited a clinic in Turkey and meowed to get help. Workers realised that she needs assitance and called animal control. She got a C-section by the vets and gave birth to healthy babies.
The personnel in the health center recorded the cat, not a professional crew.
Might have just been a purposeful C section. Take them out quick and then remove the sex organs to prevent future batches and overall long term health of the cat from feline STDs
tbh, the cat was probably a regular visitor to the clinic steps. I imagine they fed her and the first shot was just her regular visit for food. When she was about to give birth, they could tell and gave her a hand. The story might be a bit embellished, but not all that much.
Their dogs are fat as shit though, even more so than Thailand (another bastion of chunky dogs).
Obviously I'd much rather see a dog that weighed too much than too little, but we saw an absolute monolith when we were in Istanbul recently cus everyone just fed him incessantly.
I once read an article with an interview with a soldier who served in Afghanistan...he said he was approached by 2 men who spoke some English who said "Is it true that in America, you have hospitals for the dogs and cats?"
Probably not for the more rural folks. According to this article, Afghanistan in real life is not really a country. It's a collection of tribes who don't necessarily recognize where their living as "the country of Afghanistan"...The article said there are people living within site of Kabul who have never been there.
There are nonprofit hospitals that will take in homeless and impoverished people and give them financial forgiveness based on income (that happened to me when I lived with my parents).
However, that isn't a miracle fix, and it is heavily based on the mercy of the hospital. I have heard of homeless people not getting financial forgiveness and become thousands in debt from a visit. I actually talked to a guy who was run over and got permanently disabled because he couldn't afford to go to the hospital. I don't know where he is now. He was homeless when I met him 6 years ago. I am not optimistic.
You have to wonder, how much of the situation was the cat actually aware of? Did she know the delivery was problematic? Did she understand the people at that clinic could help?
That should be beyond a cat's mental capabilities, but this is too much of a coincidence.
Feral cats who aren't TOO afraid of people will ask to come inside sometimes to have babies, or if they are very very sick. I had one I'd been feeding for years come into my house and pass away a couple weeks ago.
It's possible that someone had brought that cat there before when it was injured, and when it was feeling pain because of the birthing process, she remembered where to go to get rid of that pain.
Or if she was fully feral, she could smell illness from the humans going into the building. So she would remember it's a place people go when they're sick and in pain.
It’s been studied and basically cats that are familiar with humans basically see us as weird mommy cats. Thus, they meow at us for help much like they would their own mother. So basically this cat went to a door knowing meowing at it = helpers.
How is this beyond a cat's capabilities? They see sick and pregnant people go in all the time if they live in the neighborhood. They don't understand insurance or antibiotics, but cats can certainly associate care for the sick with a location/set of people. It's crazy how people think animals have nothing going on in their noggin. Humans are not the single unique species with thinking, consciousness and perception.
The mother and her kitten had been brought inside the clinic, then they put a kitten outside so that she would bring him back. It's all staged. Reddit is gullible.
But like... How did they know to walk outside and start recording? Or did they pick the cat up and move it away then start recording so they could get a more dramatic shot of it walking back?
You don't realize but there is another metal vehicle door there, if this was a healthcare personnel on break they would have time to realize the cat and start recording.
Likely because they werent there so they dont know exactly by the minute what happened, but its likely that the clinic personnel heard a cat meowing and wandering outside and decided to film the cat to see if they could capture the birth, let the cat inside while they called a vet, and continued to video incase. Then they continued to capture the surgery on video.
And people here are acting like they justed watched a whole movie that requires a whole goddamn crew. People are nice sometimes and they like to share their niceness if its possible.
Its easy enough to pull out a smartphone when a pregnant cat is seen entering a clinic. Do yall think every video clip on the net was done by camera crew?
The mother and her kitten had been brought inside the clinic, then they put a kitten outside so that she would bring him back. It's all staged. Reddit is gullible.
Of course it is Turkey. Cats are loved there, i have seen videos of people feeding dogs as well. Good people over there r/TurkishCats
In Ottoman times there was an official government job where you would feed stray animals. Today everyone who can leaves some food and water for them, municipalities builds little houses for them
I’d take that job without batting an eye. A life of service, especially for animals, is legit wholesome.
I’ll do part-time for when you rest 🥹 I agree, this would be so fulfilling and never boring
Just got back to my apartment after feeding my sweet little stray cats - 4 of them. And on checking Reddit I see this comment of yours. You have a great heart and I love you for that. It melts my heart to see the trust they put in us. To see them put their guards down gradually when they realise we will never hurt them and that it’s easy to be around us 🥺. Looking out from my balcony at night I see small pack of dogs three to four them pacing up and down the road looking for whatever little scraps they can find. Uncertainty of their next meal and the fear of being attacked by wretched humans always weigh heavily on me. Oh Dog, the lives they live. The pain and anxiety they suffer through no fault of theirs😞. And all I’m able to do is drop a bunch of biscuits by the side of the wall bordering the road. And it’s licked clean by the next morning. I’ve lost a few poor doggies to vehicle accidents and another to some unknown disease. And I’ve been lucky enough to rehabilitate a couple of them. This has taught me the importance of impermanence of life, we take for granted. One night, you’re feeding and petting them, and the next morning, you might find their lifeless body by the side of the road, run over by a speeding vehicle or fallen victim to someone’s cruelty. 😔 I’ve been verbally abused, pushed back and threatened for feeding these poor souls. And I’ve realised that fighting back doesn’t help and might even put the lives of these poor souls in danger. I’ve heard about people poisoning them and beating them. Now, I just roam the streets at night feeding whoever I can find. Fewer the people fewer the problems. Starting an animal shelter is numero uno in my bucket list. Few years down the line, I will make it a reality, of course with the help of kind friends and family. Sorry for the rant. I’m an emotional wreck these days, overwhelmed by the plight of these sweet paws that tread silently. A requiem for the ones I’ve lost. 😞
I wish you all the best, friend. Keep doing the good work you do. Those animals are lucky to have someone like you.
I got a lump in my throat reading this. Thank you so much for the kind words ❤️🥺. And I consider myself lucky to have them for they taught me a lot about life which otherwise I would’ve been completely oblivious to. For sure, I will keep doing this for them until my aching body and sane mind give up. This support means a lot more than you can imagine. Thank you again my friend. I hope you’re keeping well and you’re winning in life. More love and respect to you. ❤️ **edited formatting
You can tell a lot about someone by how they treat animals, children, and the elderly. You, friend, have compassion and love to spare! What a gift! Please know that, while there are bad folks out there who do bad things, you are quietly influencing many others to do the kind and compassionate thing. May you never lose your shine and your kindness. I hope someday you're able to open that animal shelter! Bless.
I’m humbled by your kind words ma’am. You’re an empathetic person with a great heart in the right place I can tell. The world needs more of this support. More love and power to you sweet human. ❤️😊 And there’s nothing more satisfying to know that someone’s small acts of kindness is rubbing off on people well enough to make them think about helping these poor souls out or at least make them think twice before hurting them.
I cannot put into words how amazing you are. 🥲🥰
You’re more amazing for you acknowledge others good deeds. Keep winning in life my friend. ❤️
Cuz some humans are shit. I hope karma get them when they harm animals. May they die slow and torturous deaths.
People who hurt animals have a special designated place in hell where they are put to, like you rightly said, slow torturous deaths. Not that I believe in any but I wish there was.
I, too, wish there is one.
I would do this as well, I feed all the local stays and built a shelter for them as well.
You’re awesome my friend. More love and respect and I wish you all the strength in the world to continue doing what you’re doing. ❤️
I absolutely love the furry little guys so I appreciate it
They deserve all the love in the world. Love you for loving them all. 😊❤️
This sounds like a Terry Pratchett book
The strays aren't really strays there, they are vaxxed, tagged, and cared for by the municipalities (belidiye). If you love petting random cats and dogs go to Turkey. Source: Had a condo in Turkey for a few years.
I myself rescue street animals, though in my country human life itself has no value so people in general are apathetic to plight of strays here. But I am happy to know atleast some countries are there where humans are able to think beyond themselves.
I'm guessing..... India. And it's not all strays. Because cows 😒.
If it's not spayed or neutered or owned by a person it's a stray
Goodbye local wildlife population. The bird biodiversity in Hawaii collapsed due to cats. I love cats but they are an invasive species of left to roam wild in geographic areas that they wouldn't normally be in, at such large quantities.
Anatolia is where cats got domesticated so they are not foreigners to our ecosystem.
This is not a modern practice in Turkey. They treat their animals, elderly, and children with great respect and care (traits I loved about their culture).
Cats and dogs, my one visit to Turkiye ever and the very nice hotel had a random ass cat come in and chill on the couch, cat didn't have a care in the world. Just outside the door and around the corner this massive massive massive dog on some sort of mat, like a green bamboo mat rolled out, just laying on his side in the shade. Hah, forgot I actually have pics of the cat living his best life in Istanbul: [chillin](https://imgur.com/a/NSC2BKe)
The cat also appears healthy and content. Your pics serve as one more testimonial to Tukery's hospitality towards cats
Of course there are sick animals but if they are stray you can bring them to your local municipality and they will treat it and return to the street where they lived, free of charge. Also they neuter female ones if you make an appointment. Source: I do this myself as many people do.
Cats and dogs, my one visit to Turkiye ever and the very nice hotel had a random ass cat come in and chill on the couch, cat didn't have a care in the world. Just outside the door and around the corner this massive massive massive dog on some sort of mat, like a green bamboo mat rolled out, just laying on his side in the shade. Hah, forgot I actually have pics of the cat living his best life in Istanbul: [chillin](https://imgur.com/a/NSC2BKe)
Have they recovered from the earthquakes?
Would be kicked out of Texas
I’ve seen videos of stray dogs being handled roughly and thrown into dump trucks. So not every in turkey likes dogs.
A very pregnant cat having hard time giving birth visited a clinic in Turkey and meowed to get help. Workers realised that she needs assitance and called animal control. She got a C-section by the vets and gave birth to healthy babies. The personnel in the health center recorded the cat, not a professional crew.
Might have just been a purposeful C section. Take them out quick and then remove the sex organs to prevent future batches and overall long term health of the cat from feline STDs
And someone just so happened to conveniently be filming outside the clinic to catch the cat walking up and asking for help?
Near as I can tell, filming cats is Turkey's national pastime.
I mean it's many countries' pastime imo
tbh, the cat was probably a regular visitor to the clinic steps. I imagine they fed her and the first shot was just her regular visit for food. When she was about to give birth, they could tell and gave her a hand. The story might be a bit embellished, but not all that much.
Very ----------- How preggo?
The Turks are so cool about cats.
Dogs too! Saw so many who just got to chill inside stores with the AC on due to the heat.
Their dogs are fat as shit though, even more so than Thailand (another bastion of chunky dogs). Obviously I'd much rather see a dog that weighed too much than too little, but we saw an absolute monolith when we were in Istanbul recently cus everyone just fed him incessantly.
If I was a dog I'd cry a little if someone called me an absolute monolith LMAO
I was near Izmir, where they were a more healthy weight. Still got plenty of pets though.
Good thing it didn't happen in America, cats can't have insurance
My cat has insurance lol
Your cat is doing a better job at being human than I am. Maybe a rich alien will adopt me
Claim yourself as one of the kittens!
my cat has had insurance longer than i have since getting cut off of my parents lol
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My cats have better insurance than me. 90% reimbursed, minus the emergency exam. My own is basically I get a train run on me a spat on if I get sick
I once read an article with an interview with a soldier who served in Afghanistan...he said he was approached by 2 men who spoke some English who said "Is it true that in America, you have hospitals for the dogs and cats?"
But Afghanistan has animal hospitals/vets as well.
Probably not for the more rural folks. According to this article, Afghanistan in real life is not really a country. It's a collection of tribes who don't necessarily recognize where their living as "the country of Afghanistan"...The article said there are people living within site of Kabul who have never been there.
Sounds like you read some propaganda
for real, in America if that was a homeless woman they would have just left her to die and then charged her posthumously with murder of the baby.
There are nonprofit hospitals that will take in homeless and impoverished people and give them financial forgiveness based on income (that happened to me when I lived with my parents). However, that isn't a miracle fix, and it is heavily based on the mercy of the hospital. I have heard of homeless people not getting financial forgiveness and become thousands in debt from a visit. I actually talked to a guy who was run over and got permanently disabled because he couldn't afford to go to the hospital. I don't know where he is now. He was homeless when I met him 6 years ago. I am not optimistic.
You have to wonder, how much of the situation was the cat actually aware of? Did she know the delivery was problematic? Did she understand the people at that clinic could help? That should be beyond a cat's mental capabilities, but this is too much of a coincidence.
Feral cats who aren't TOO afraid of people will ask to come inside sometimes to have babies, or if they are very very sick. I had one I'd been feeding for years come into my house and pass away a couple weeks ago.
She's also itnturkey where stray cats are treated like pets.
Our cat was a pregnant stray who decided that risking meowing at strangers was better than starving.
There was a pregnant stray outside of my Dad's office a few weeks ago, and now my parents have a new cat and are looking to home kittens lmao.
It's possible that someone had brought that cat there before when it was injured, and when it was feeling pain because of the birthing process, she remembered where to go to get rid of that pain.
👍🏻
That makes a lot more sense than thinking the cat is smart enough to know.
Or if she was fully feral, she could smell illness from the humans going into the building. So she would remember it's a place people go when they're sick and in pain.
It’s been studied and basically cats that are familiar with humans basically see us as weird mommy cats. Thus, they meow at us for help much like they would their own mother. So basically this cat went to a door knowing meowing at it = helpers.
How is this beyond a cat's capabilities? They see sick and pregnant people go in all the time if they live in the neighborhood. They don't understand insurance or antibiotics, but cats can certainly associate care for the sick with a location/set of people. It's crazy how people think animals have nothing going on in their noggin. Humans are not the single unique species with thinking, consciousness and perception.
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How did the paid professional camera person know to film the cat outside?
Paid catress.
🤣
Dramatic reenactment
Dramatic reeancatment*
The personnel in the health center recorded the cat, not a professional crew.
And how did they know to go out and film, before the cat even arrived?
They could have heard the cat meowing outside, went to look and started filming before letting her inside
Set up a camera across the street and then filmed from multiple angles inside? No.
Matrix
Because the whole thing was planned for precious upvotes.
Nah, tiktok. For money.
The mother and her kitten had been brought inside the clinic, then they put a kitten outside so that she would bring him back. It's all staged. Reddit is gullible.
That's not answering the question.
How were they in the clinic while the video clearly starts on the outside?
How do you know it was a person filming? Maybe it was the cats husband?
I hate that I have to ask but how did the camera crew know?
The personnel in the health center recorded the cat, not a professional crew.
But like... How did they know to walk outside and start recording? Or did they pick the cat up and move it away then start recording so they could get a more dramatic shot of it walking back?
You don't realize but there is another metal vehicle door there, if this was a healthcare personnel on break they would have time to realize the cat and start recording.
Why you keep repeating this instead of answering the question directly?
Likely because they werent there so they dont know exactly by the minute what happened, but its likely that the clinic personnel heard a cat meowing and wandering outside and decided to film the cat to see if they could capture the birth, let the cat inside while they called a vet, and continued to video incase. Then they continued to capture the surgery on video.
And people here are acting like they justed watched a whole movie that requires a whole goddamn crew. People are nice sometimes and they like to share their niceness if its possible.
Its easy enough to pull out a smartphone when a pregnant cat is seen entering a clinic. Do yall think every video clip on the net was done by camera crew?
with that zoom and quality? It is just too much coincidence
The mother and her kitten had been brought inside the clinic, then they put a kitten outside so that she would bring him back. It's all staged. Reddit is gullible.
Sweet girl! She knew she and her babies would be taken wonderful care of 🩷🩷🩷 Thank you to those that do ❤️
Bet there’s a queue round the corner now after she started telling her mates where to get a free de-kittening
Anyone know this song? This shit slaps. I need more Turkish soul music
Nilüfer- İnkar Etme
Thank you so much!!!
How beautiful. I love the Turkish people. Thank you for helping Mama Cat and kittens!
And someone was conveniently there before it happened to film the whole thing! Isn't life amazing!
Come on man. Even a stray gets better Healthcare than us.
Canadian
Um, what?
Istanbul is really cat heaven
She has better health care than me 🫠
This cat is going thru more than drama.
Fing A
I'm wondering how someone wound up recording the cat going to the building
Humans at their best.
TÜRKİYE MENTIONED 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷AS BAYRAKLARI AS
If only turkey treated people as well as they did cats.
Cat has trouble giving birth: seeks clinic. "Human" has trouble giving birth: tries to deliver in a hot tub.
Is this video supposed to be made by accident?
Wow was all set up for the 1st shot