• SuperApples@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      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.

    • angrystego@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      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.

  • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Kinda interesting that Spain is surrounded by two countries with +30% cat ownership but themselves have 16%. Is there something about Spanish society that lowers cat ownership? I read a pet census (2017 tho) which seems to infer the percentage of cat lovers is even lower than this chart, with 8% of households (again 2017) having multiple cats per household creating an inflated 16% number. While Spaniards love dogs as much as anyone, interestingly birds are actually more popular than both cat or dog.

    Man, anyone from Spain? I wanna hear the word on the street