[CAT] Five cat links: Port Hope, napping, cats vs. rats, Persian leopards, Gornick and Lessing

[rfmcdonald]

• The small Ontario town of Port Hope has a cat café now, the Toe Beans Cat Caf○, open six days a week and housing cats looking for new homes. Global News reports.


• This story of a Wisconsin man, a senior citizen, who comes in to a cat shelter to play and nap with the cats, is adorable. Global News reports.


• Sarah Zhang at The Atlantic notes a new study in New York City that has found that city's stray cats seem not to hunt adult rats. The rats are, simply, too big.


• Erica Gies at The Crux describes the struggle to protect the Persian leopard of the Zagros Mountains, in the heart of divided Kurdistan.


• Over at the NYR Daily, Vivian Gornick considers, in the light of the writings of Doris Lessing, her experiences living with cats. What sorts of beings are they? What do they think? How accurately do we observe them?

Comments

[armiphlage]

Wow - my sister's cats will attack raccoons, and bring home large rabbits nearly their own size, just for fun. They would have lots of enjoyment attacking NYC rats.