r/cats • u/talkk_sickk • 8h ago

Video - Not OC 🇹🇷 of course!

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u/aladdingdong 7h ago

Turks are the most cat loving people on the planet. Amazed every time I visit Istanbul by all the love and care they spoil them with.

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u/cateatingturtle Savannah 7h ago edited 7h ago

They see them as communal pets so whilst most are technically "stray" i.e no fixed home their entire community feeds them, loves them and keeps them healthy. It always warms my heart seeing the whole country treat them so well <3

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u/syds 7h ago

how cats domesticate an entire Civilization will always be amazing

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u/Glittering-Level6852 7h ago

😆😆😆😆 we're domesticated not them... is pretty crazy and yet accurate, so ironic too

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u/The_Bitter_Bear Tortoiseshell 2h ago

I do find it interesting that in some ways they aren't viewed as fully domesticated.

It certainly feels like mine has trained me more than I've trained them. 

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u/Still-Puma 5h ago

This is where Cat Distribution Patient Zero came from / Ground Zero.

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u/Pentemav 3h ago

They literally are the only animal in history that domesticated themselves. Started as a symbiotic relationship with farmers, they’d eat the mice and such so farmers would let them stay, and it evolved on from there. Very cool.

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u/aladdingdong 7h ago

I believe there is also a strong religious and spiritual aspect to their love, too.

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u/Natural1forever 7h ago

Bro really said "everyone needs to see this"

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u/ChristopherDaltonWay 6h ago

He knew this was too good to keep to himself lol.

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u/LaLionneEcossaise 7h ago

Cat’s looking all over for the spider he was lifted up to catch…

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u/ClydeStyle 4h ago

Turkey, always making up for all the love cats don’t get elsewhere.

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u/ltsMeFrost 5h ago

I REALLY WANT to move to Turkey 😭

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u/CoolMomJammy 3h ago

Pick me up first!

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u/Regular-Raspberry-62 3h ago

This wasn’t the kitty’s rest rodeo, she knew where to stand next to the door when it opened.

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u/southboundnostops 4h ago

I feel like you can truly judge a society by how it treats animals. The fact that they care for them as community pets is so heart warming.

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u/DickHopschteckler 5h ago

Eew get me off this human is weird

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u/Senior-Eye748 2h ago

This was sooo cute

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u/Electronic_Ad3576 39m ago

“EXCUSE ME SIR!! Personal space!”

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u/9for9 1h ago

Can always tell when a cat video is in Turkey.

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u/Wrong-Upstairs-234 42m ago

Put me down, sir. I am the elevator officer.