Even if you are generally a happy person, everyone has bad days and sometimes you don’t even know the reason why you are feeling down. Even if you can’t find out what is upsetting you right away, it is more important to know what can lift you up.
For Twitter user Elle Em, it is cats. They went on Twitter saying they weren’t having the best time and asked people to not just show their cats, but also expose their vices and naughty behavior in a form of an AITA from a cat’s perspective.
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People voluntarily shared the photos of their pets and came up with some amusing AITA questions, so if you are also having a bad day, the list might be the right medicine for you.
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Elle Em is an American currently living in southwestern Spain with their husband and daughter. Apparently, there are a lot of stray cats in the city, so the shelters are always overwhelmed and there are more cats in the streets than people willing to help them, so Elle accidentally turned their house into an unofficial cat rescue/sanctuary.
Elle describes how their family came into that situation on their Patreon: “When my family and I moved to Spain, we thought it would be fun to foster a litter of kittens. Which then became another litter. And another. And some adults. And more kittens. And more adults.”
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The family doesn’t keep the cats forever and tries to find them a new home. Elle says that they also try to control the growing cat population in the streets by neutering them, but it is hard as the only help they get is financial and moral support on the internet.
It sometimes gets frustrating, but Elle says that their family keeps going: “helping cats is the little bit of good we can do to make our small piece of the world better.”
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Sadly, what Elle sees in the town of Cadiz is a reality in many places in Spain. While for most of us, that breaks our hearts that there are many cats without homes, some just want them eradicated as they are compared to pests that smell and carry diseases.
However, there is a more humane method of controlling stray cat and dog populations. It is called Trap-Neuter-Release (TNR) and as the name suggests, people trap cats to perform the neutering surgery and then release the animals after their wounds are healed. Depending on an animal’s condition, they might vaccinate them to prevent them from spreading diseases.
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Most often the cats living on the streets are feral so they aren’t capable of adapting to living in a cage in a shelter or in a home. Living on the streets is all they know and know well, so they gladly go back to their territory.
But what is most important, they can’t breed, so the population keeps declining. Unspayed cats can have up to 18 kittens a year, so if a city is inhabited by 1000 of such cats, by the end of the year, the cat population might increase up to 18,000. Controlling the birth rate is key for humanly clearing the streets of cats.
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Usually TNR is conducted by an organization, but Elle is doing it alone; however, even their own effort can make a difference and it also might inspire other cat lovers to join. Elle needed some inspiration of their own and started a wonderful thread of cute cat photos and stories of them being their annoying selves.
The thread got almost 30k likes and 5k comments. People seemed to love the idea of sharing what their cats were up to in the form of an AITA, which is a Reddit format of people describing a situation and asking if they were a jerk for behaving in a certain way, as they all played along. Which AITAs did you like the most? Upvote them and share your own AITAs from your cat’s perspective in the comments!
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