Elsewhere, on the cat
front, the Chinese, not a noted race of animal lovers, except as
diners, have kept a pack of 200 cats at the imperial palace complex, aka The Forbidden City, to keep rats and vermin away from the cultural relics.
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| Imperial Cats Wear Royal Hats |
Vaccinated,
neutered and fed vitamins, the only other cossetting is that they are
allowed to sleep indoors in the winter.
They do the job though, and
officials reported that as well as no rodents, they have not found a
single piece of cultural relics damaged by cat claws, although its
acknowledged that their excrement is definitely an eyesore.
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| Imperial Cat In Forbidden City |
Of course, given the
Chinese habit of popping anything animal into the cooking pots, one
has too suspect that the estimated 200,000 stray cats of Beijing are
a cunning breed like Macavity. However what makes them particularly interesting, is
that the Royal complex is very likely their 'real' home, as its
suspected that many of them may well be descendants of royal pets
from the previous dynasties.
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