The title may sound strange, but what I'm going to show you today it is exactly that. Moment of life. Moments of my life and when you watch these photos and read my post (if there will be anyone doing that) it's going to be moments of your life. The second part of the title is a bit funny, because I don't like cats, yet it's the second time this week that I'm posting about cats.
This morning I went back to my hairdresser as we had some unfinished business from last night. When I got to the salon, the door was open and a cat was standing in the doorway looking inside, curiously, to see what's going on there. It looked strange and cute as well, because you don't see that every day. Stray cats are rarely friendly, they are rather afraid of humans for a good reason. Ina hairdresser salon there's noise, there's laud chatter, it's definitely not a place for a cat, but this fellow was still curious and ready to go in.
I stopped in front of the door, giving the cat the option to go in or go away. Finally I was able to go in as the 4 legged decided to leave.
It took me 3 minutes to finish my business and when I wanted to leave, this is what I saw. At that point I asked my hairdresser if she is taking new clients as there's one in the doorway. My hairdresser said that's his boy 🙂
So this is definitely a tray cat, but it looks like the most friendly cat I've ever seen.
He was rolling on his back, enjoying the morning sun. We took a few photos of him and I thought he's the best cat model I've ever had.
Then he started cleaning himself, like nothing has happened.
He was not bothered by the fact that I had no space to come out of the salon and had to step over him.
It's not a secret that I'm not a cat fan, but this little cutie showed me something today that made me stop and reflect. You don't see many stray dogs in the city as most of them have been already picked up. I'm not contesting the measure as sometimes a pack of dogs can be extremely dangerous.
Cats are a different matter as you can't chase them away, neither control them. Cats are not dangerous as most of them are running away from people for good reason. There are still good people who are feeding them, but there are also bad people who are hurting them just for fun.
One thing I hate more than anything and that is animal cruelty. Unfortunately the law is too permissive with these criminals in my country and reporting a case and taking it to court is not very common.
So today I was happy to see this little fellow so friendly and happy, enjoying the morning. It's good to see something like this is a busy city, where everyone is in a rush and paying attention to the environment becomes secondary, or even further down the list as there are always more important things to do. Helping animals is not a priority anymore and if we can, we chase them away as they become a burden.
A couple of years ago the neighborhood administration wanted to have the crows killed because they make a mess. They had a petition for people to sign. The initiative was unsuccessful thank God!
If we continue like this, cities are going to become concrete monsters with drones flying above us and we'll see green spaces on the big billboards places all over the city.
While going to the grocery store, I spotted these three pigeons eating breadcrumbs. It's not a scene you see every day as feeding birds is forbidden. Yes, it is forbidden, no matter how strange it sounds and whoever did this, could be fined. This scene was next to the bakery, so one doesn't need to be a rocket scientist to figure it out, where the breadcrumbs are coming from. They most likely cleaned the bread slicer and gave the breadcrumbs to the birds.
Returning from the grocery store, I saw the party was on as there were eight already. I suppose this is a daily event, or more like twice a day maybe, which is good as the se pigeons have a meal guaranteed, if they are smart.
Then returning home I spotted these two in front of my apartment building. There's always a cat or two roaming around. Nowadays more as there are kittens too. My neighbor is feeding them.
Now look at these two. Are they looking friendly and happy? Far from it. I know very little about cats, but it's visible from a mile that they are suspicious and ready to jump or run away. Good thing I cameras have zoom function as otherwise I would have captured a big nothing as you can't go close to them.
Si yeah, life is not always a Disneyland, some are lucky, others are not, but there's always something we can do to make our and others' life better. It's not every day I am posting about topics like this, but today I felt like I had to. Today it's caturday by the way.
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