Sunday, September 12, 2010

Cat life

If I were a cat I'd love to live in Old San Juan.
There are cats living in most of the streets all over the world. Ok, if there is a chinese restaurant close, there is a rumour around saying cats disappear....dunno why. I think I never tried cat food and chinese sweet and sour pork tastes like pork and not anything else for me and so far there isn't a chinese restaurant here so they don't have to be scared.
They are used to live in the streets pretty well, it doesn't matter if the weather is hot or cold they manage to spend their lives so great, if it's cold they always find a warm car engine to sleep close to and if it's hot there's always a windy dark spot to lie down on. Besides food stuff is easy for them cause they are used to eat almost everything. Since I have had cats I can tell you they can be so fancy and decide not to eat one cat food brand but, in the other hand they enjoy hunting and eating flies... here I've seen them hunting lizards, frogs (coquís) and since I've never seen a rat around I guess they have something to do with that.
But I have noticed that here in OSJ they do live much better, they are the kings. There is a NGO which takes care of them when they are sick, feed them, vaccinate them and watch out for them to be safe.
This organization sterilizes some of the cats to keep the population under control as well. I don't know if they are being succeed cause there are hundreds of them.
All these cats look so happy here, you can find them sleeping on or under a car, in the sidewalk, over the grass and they don't bother to run if you walk close to them.....
I'll upload some pictures to try to show how the neighbourhood is but u'd be here to feel it cause they are much more than what the picture shows, now and since 3 weeks ago or so there is a cat which spends its time in my building (it handle to come in jumping the front door). At the beginning it was so shy and try to hide every time I went out my place, it could be linked with the fact that Marta was here with me and she scared cats, hehe, now it does not move when I go out, it keeps there, staring at me, asking for food and sometimes it tries to sneak into my place too!
Sizes: there are all kind of cat sizes, from the puertorican size (so so fat, probably a cat which eats at McDonalds or Wendy's very often) to the skinny cats which seem Victoria Beckam fans...

3 comments:

  1. definitely it seems like you had fresis and milines leaving around you! right now delpho is sleeping with me...less is nothing!muaaaaaaaaa

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  2. osqui!!!IT´S AMAZING!MAYBE THEY LET YOU STAY THERE UNTIL FEBRUARY!!

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  3. great life-cat in Old San Juan which seems indeed to be a top place also for "perro viejo" way of life, doenst it?

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