In the Company of Cats

My husband and I were definitely not cat people ~ until we moved into our new home and a street cat adopted us. Neighbors said they had all tried to get him to stay with them but that after a few days, he would always move on. He started by peering in our dining room window from the branches of the avocado tree. When we finally let him in, he played hide-and-seek with us and followed us on our evening walks around the neighborhood. "He's just like a dog," we said in amazement. More recently, as a cat convert, I traveled to Turkey and the Balkans, where there are many, many homeless animals (http://somanyinterestingthings.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-animals-of-istanbul.html). Happily, it seems that, in Istanbul at least, they really are "community creatures" and seem well care for. One group in the States is hoping to change people's minds here about outdoor, or what we call feral, cats: http://www.care2.com/causes/incredible-photos-document-secret-lives-of-street-cats.html