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A corner of Japan where cats rule [SLR.tv]
Go Team Meow - Because Yes We Nyan.
posted by NoxAeternum at 10:33 AM on March 3, 2015
posted by NoxAeternum at 10:33 AM on March 3, 2015
It must be Aoshima Island Day! There's a photo collection at The Atlantic too.
posted by fraula at 10:43 AM on March 3, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by fraula at 10:43 AM on March 3, 2015 [4 favorites]
No shops? How does a tourist attraction like this not get overrun by commerce?
posted by Pope Guilty at 10:48 AM on March 3, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Pope Guilty at 10:48 AM on March 3, 2015 [2 favorites]
climbing kitties!
When I grow up on want to be a kitty tree
ni hao nyan
posted by halifix at 10:48 AM on March 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
When I grow up on want to be a kitty tree
ni hao nyan
posted by halifix at 10:48 AM on March 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
My goodness, they could come film at my house, a corner of Minneapolis where One Cat Holds Sway Over All. Various cat witches (known locally as "food apes") periodically issue forth to cast various kinds of fish and fish-related food into the maw of the Great Old Cat One.
(Actually, yesterday we found out that the cat will deign to accept small bits of pate de campagne even though it's not fish. That was pretty exciting.)
posted by Frowner at 10:58 AM on March 3, 2015 [6 favorites]
(Actually, yesterday we found out that the cat will deign to accept small bits of pate de campagne even though it's not fish. That was pretty exciting.)
posted by Frowner at 10:58 AM on March 3, 2015 [6 favorites]
At first I was like "oh they must mean Enoshima", then I saw the photos. Nope! That's a fuckload of cats! Enoshima has a bunch of feral cats but nothing like that, Jesus. Can you imagine what that place must sound like at night?
Anyways so I guess Japanese Cat Islands are a thing.
posted by Hoopo at 11:01 AM on March 3, 2015
Anyways so I guess Japanese Cat Islands are a thing.
posted by Hoopo at 11:01 AM on March 3, 2015
Objection. Cats rule all of Japan.
posted by Faint of Butt at 11:10 AM on March 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Faint of Butt at 11:10 AM on March 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
A corner of Japan where cats rule: a corner of Japan where dogs drool?
posted by misteraitch at 11:10 AM on March 3, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by misteraitch at 11:10 AM on March 3, 2015 [2 favorites]
It must be Aoshima Island Day!
Reuters must be their source, because the BBC's on the ball too.
posted by infini at 11:15 AM on March 3, 2015
Reuters must be their source, because the BBC's on the ball too.
posted by infini at 11:15 AM on March 3, 2015
It just struck me that these old timey media giants still think their readers are their readers i.e. they don't get news from any other sources, just like in the old days when I had molars in my mouth and didn't need to suck on a crisp to soften it first.
posted by infini at 11:16 AM on March 3, 2015
posted by infini at 11:16 AM on March 3, 2015
How did cats get to this island? Hm. Hmm... HMMM!!!
posted by maryr at 11:17 AM on March 3, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by maryr at 11:17 AM on March 3, 2015 [2 favorites]
Else they're tired of losing traffic to rando tumblrs on a dress and thus putting out bait to attract the axe murderers on the interwebz who will go anywhere for a kitteh pic?
posted by infini at 11:18 AM on March 3, 2015
posted by infini at 11:18 AM on March 3, 2015
Cat Island. Rabbit Island. FIGHT!
posted by cazoo at 12:01 PM on March 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by cazoo at 12:01 PM on March 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
I like how this is edited to transition from "that doesn't seem like very many cats" to "WHOA THAT IS A LOT OF CATS."
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 12:02 PM on March 3, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 12:02 PM on March 3, 2015 [4 favorites]
heads-up at about 0:31 a kitty gets a lil fluff on its nose
That was my favorite part! So undignified!
posted by sutt at 12:07 PM on March 3, 2015
That was my favorite part! So undignified!
posted by sutt at 12:07 PM on March 3, 2015
I... I want to hug them all!
posted by tickingclock at 1:03 PM on March 3, 2015
posted by tickingclock at 1:03 PM on March 3, 2015
Old people and cats. That's what the fella said. Old people and cats. Sounds like heaven to me; I love both those things!
posted by ezust at 2:07 PM on March 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by ezust at 2:07 PM on March 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
(Because I must always be a downer, I imagine that songbirds are extinct there.)
posted by JHarris at 3:24 PM on March 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by JHarris at 3:24 PM on March 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
Probably. On the upside, the rats they were brought in to eradicate are probably gone, too.
posted by Lexica at 5:47 PM on March 3, 2015
posted by Lexica at 5:47 PM on March 3, 2015
I've read about this place before (I think right here on the blue) and I don't understand why nobody's built a guesthouse. Take my money, cat island! Take it all!
posted by Georgina at 8:29 PM on March 3, 2015
posted by Georgina at 8:29 PM on March 3, 2015
I don't know. I just imagine this island has a certain smell...
posted by Puddle Jumper at 10:35 PM on March 3, 2015
posted by Puddle Jumper at 10:35 PM on March 3, 2015
I too imagine my atheist heaven as a place not too dissimilar to this. But I gotta wonder: is there no spaying/neutering on this island? Bc as much as I love the kittehs, it isn't good that they breed out of control (e.g., what happens to them when the last cat witch dies?!).
posted by Halo in reverse at 7:18 AM on March 4, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Halo in reverse at 7:18 AM on March 4, 2015 [1 favorite]
Outdoor cats = fleas, lice, ticks (unless you dose them with flea medicine)
300 outdoor cats = me running away
posted by sidereal at 7:19 AM on March 4, 2015
300 outdoor cats = me running away
posted by sidereal at 7:19 AM on March 4, 2015
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Now I know what I want to be when I grow up.
posted by brina at 10:30 AM on March 3, 2015 [26 favorites]