Stray Cats And Dogs In Turkey
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Stray cats and dogs in turkey. How Turkey started to take care of street cats and dogs. Demetrios Ioannou Aug122019 1208PM EST. In Turkey most of the citizens are closely associated with stray cats and they love to pet and feed them on the streets.
Turkey has so so many cats. Committing to them is an expensive process if it involves quarantine though people be warned. Turkey does have a population of sick or injured stray and feral cats as well as homeless dogs and at least one rescue group is addressing the problem.
Shelters protect needy stray animals in eastern Turkey 60 shelters built through youth initiative to help animals at freezing winter conditions. They also help others adopt stray cats and dogs. 1Department of Parasitology Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Van Yuzuncu Yil University 65040 Van Turkey.
In Istanbul alone a megacity of 15 million people there are thought to be 130000 dogs and 125000 cats roaming free. As an animal lover one of my favorite aspects of life in Turkey can also be one of the most challenging. Wandering around the streets of Istanbul Turkey one cant help but notice the plethora of friendly stray cats found everywhere from mosques to shops.
I thought nothing of them. Holiday resorts like Akyaka where there are so many visitors pensions and restaurants in summer months become places where unwanted animals are dumped. But Turkey was not always a paradise for stray animalsDuring the 90s and 2000s Istanbul and other Turkish cities had to deal with aggressive and sick cats and dogs that infected people with various diseases such as rabies.
8439-11942 stray cats in Ankara Turkey. There is a rich vein of lore explaining why this ancient metropolis is so stray-friendly and this documentary. On one hand I love how people and animals here live together on what often feels like equal terms.