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I haven’t seen a part of Jakarta that didn’t have stray cats, and I lived there for about 10 years.

selimthegrim 6y ago
Interestingly enough, it was not a Muslim dominated part of Bangkok (as opposed to where I was staying) but rather a Buddhist request for cat alms as I recall, I could be wrong.
- AmericanChopper 6y ago
  There are temples in Thailand that care for stray cats, just the same as there are temples that care for stray dogs. But stray cats are far from ubiquitous in Bangkok, especially compared to the Muslim majority cities in the region. Jakarta has so many stray cats that it's legitimately concerned they're going to bring rabies back to the city. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-19/inside-jakartas-battle-to-control-feral-cats/9541636?nw=0 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-19/inside-jakartas-battl... During the Covid lockdowns, I saw numerous articles about how stray cats weren't getting fed properly in KL https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2020/03/579036/abang-polis-goes-extra-mile-feed-stray-cats https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2020/03/579036/abang-poli... Every city has stray cats, it's just Muslim majority ones tend to have way more than you'd otherwise expect. Especially in developing countries that don't have sufficient animal control resourcing. Those cities also tend to focus their animal control efforts on getting dogs off the street, as Muslims are typically incredibly adverse to them (I saw 0 stray dogs in Jakarta the whole time I lived there, compared to Bangkok for instance where I couldn't walk to the end of my street without seeing at least 5 of them). If everybody all of a sudden decided they adored squirrels, and started carrying squirrel food around incase they ran into one, and started feeding all the squirrels that hung out around their home/place of work every day, you'd expect the squirrel population to explode too.

Interestingly enough, it was not a Muslim dominated part of Bangkok (as opposed to where I was staying) but rather a Buddhist request for cat alms as I recall, I could be wrong.

AmericanChopper 6y ago
There are temples in Thailand that care for stray cats, just the same as there are temples that care for stray dogs. But stray cats are far from ubiquitous in Bangkok, especially compared to the Muslim majority cities in the region. Jakarta has so many stray cats that it's legitimately concerned they're going to bring rabies back to the city. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-19/inside-jakartas-battle-to-control-feral-cats/9541636?nw=0 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-19/inside-jakartas-battl... During the Covid lockdowns, I saw numerous articles about how stray cats weren't getting fed properly in KL https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2020/03/579036/abang-polis-goes-extra-mile-feed-stray-cats https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2020/03/579036/abang-poli... Every city has stray cats, it's just Muslim majority ones tend to have way more than you'd otherwise expect. Especially in developing countries that don't have sufficient animal control resourcing. Those cities also tend to focus their animal control efforts on getting dogs off the street, as Muslims are typically incredibly adverse to them (I saw 0 stray dogs in Jakarta the whole time I lived there, compared to Bangkok for instance where I couldn't walk to the end of my street without seeing at least 5 of them). If everybody all of a sudden decided they adored squirrels, and started carrying squirrel food around incase they ran into one, and started feeding all the squirrels that hung out around their home/place of work every day, you'd expect the squirrel population to explode too.