Amsterdam to install steps to help cats escape from the canals - DutchNews.nl
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Amsterdam councillors have voted to spend up to €100,000 installing special steps along city centre canals in an effort to save cats and another animals which fall in the water, the Parool reported this week. So far this year, 19 cats are known to have drowned in the city’s canals because they are unable to climb out, a statistic which prompted the local pro-animal party PvdD to propose the plan. In June Amersfoort announced it was installing 300 flights of...

Amsterdam councillors have voted to spend up to €100,000 installing special steps along city centre canals in an effort to save cats and another animals which fall in the water, the Parool reported this week.

  • Cam@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    So… 100000€ because 19 cats, that shouldn’t be there, drowned. Domestic cats are extinction agents, cat colonies need to disappear (not by drowning the cats, ideally in my mind they should go to a really big building just for them, I am a silly dreamer) and if the cats aren’t feral, they should fine owners that let them roam outside. It’s bad for the ecosystem, dangerous for the cat and even for their humans (zoonosis).

    That money would be better spent taking cats off the street.
    I don’t find this uplifting at all.