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In Japan, there is a unique feline island – Tashiro, which is more often just called Cat Island. This winter season due to bad weather cats were left without food, so a few the elderly population of the island became agitated.
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The old people actually panicked because cats are here in seven times more than people and when hungry animals walk in droves on your heels and yelling – this is a terrible sight. Shops on the island no, so there’s simply nowhere to get food for cats. Usually all this horde of “tailed and tailless” is fed by tourists coming to Cat Island is exactly for this purpose – to look at this outlandish corner of the world, “chat” with cats and even recharge here energy. They say that this is the best therapy for all diseases. Naturally, they bring food for animals, because with cats You can communicate only by playing and feeding them.
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It is necessary to take into account the fact that almost ninety percent of the inhabitants of the island – deep old people who find it difficult to ride boats on their own for food for cats, and even in bad weather. And tourists because of the bad the weather didn’t come either. A riot of cats was brewing on the island …
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And then the keeper of the island turned over the Internet to users of social networks Twitter to provide all possible assistance, that is deliver at least some food for animals to Cat Island they did not attack people. Just a few days later after this call to the island, boats with provisions began to moor. It was brought so much that the caretaker again had to turn to Twitter users, but now with a different request – to stop send cat food to Tashiro, because it’s enough here now, probably for a whole year …
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Cat Island History
This tiny Japanese islet belongs to Miyagi Prefecture. Formally, it refers to the city of Ishinomaki. On an island two small villages, between which stands an unusual sanctuary – Temple cats.
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These animals have been revered here since ancient times, since Silk production once flourished on the island, and cats specially bred to exterminate rats that interfere industries function and develop normally. To bring dogs on Tashiro was strictly prohibited. Later, from the seventeenth century, at Tashiro, silk production is dead, but it began to flourish fishing. The island has proven to be a very popular destination for this species. fishing and recreation, and hundreds of fishermen began to come here, for which hotels were even built here.
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And again, the cats were out of business, however, now they are not with rats fought, and begged for fish from fishers. But the latter were not away to feed animals that according to Japanese belief could to predict the weather and promise good luck in fishing. Therefore soon on Tashiro cats have become even more. But the Temple of cats appeared here after one fisherman accidentally killed an animal with a stone. Cat with buried with honors, and erected on the site of this burial sanctuary. However, this is not the only sacred place of these animals on the island, there are about fifty, scattered around throughout Tashiro.
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However, in the late nineteenth century, fishing also fell into decay. Soon, less than a thousand of the indigenous inhabitants of the island hundreds. Today it’s mostly old people who live their lives, or elderly Japanese, existing again due to fishing. Not it is surprising that the ratio of people and cats is increasingly increasing in side of the animals, while it’s about one to six to seven.
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Thanks to the Internet, Cat Island has become famous in Japan itself, and all over the world. Tourists frequented here. True today on tashiro there are no hotels or even shops, however, daytime tourist walks here support the life of not only Aboriginal people, but also numerous cats. As today’s case has shown, the Internet is not only potentially, but also directly feeds and saves this small island because web users are always ready to come to help the helpless – even people, even animals. And here even two in one…
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