Our compound is littered with stray cats. I mean seriously there are probably 100 stray cats that live here. I think what happens is families move here and want a pet for their kids. In the UK and some other countries, cats have to be quarantined for 6 months at the owners expense to bring them into the country. Therefore, when those families leave Doha for home, they just let their cats stay. Then those cats mate and kittens abound!!!
Our kids have always wanted a cat for a pet, but Bobby is highly allergic to them. It has been so fun for them to kind of "adopt" some of these stray cats as their own. They have names for them and they go check on them and play with them. They know which ones are friendly and which ones to stay away from. They even helped out a kitten for awhile and made him a bed and fed him. (in another part of the compound - not near our house) There is a family here about 10 houses down from us who feeds probably 20 of them so they hang around her house and the kids go there all the time to visit them. She is the one in charge of trapping all the cats in the compound and then she takes them to the free clinic to have them spayed and neutered to prevent further strays.
The cat in the pictures below is actually the cat that the "cat family" owns as a pet, hence the collar. It is very sweet and loves to be pet, so Avery gives it lots of attention. So much so that we have noticed Toffee hanging out around our house more than his own.
These cats have provided hours upon hours of entertainment for our kids so I thought a blog post should be dedicated to them.
Our kids have always wanted a cat for a pet, but Bobby is highly allergic to them. It has been so fun for them to kind of "adopt" some of these stray cats as their own. They have names for them and they go check on them and play with them. They know which ones are friendly and which ones to stay away from. They even helped out a kitten for awhile and made him a bed and fed him. (in another part of the compound - not near our house) There is a family here about 10 houses down from us who feeds probably 20 of them so they hang around her house and the kids go there all the time to visit them. She is the one in charge of trapping all the cats in the compound and then she takes them to the free clinic to have them spayed and neutered to prevent further strays.
The cat in the pictures below is actually the cat that the "cat family" owns as a pet, hence the collar. It is very sweet and loves to be pet, so Avery gives it lots of attention. So much so that we have noticed Toffee hanging out around our house more than his own.
These cats have provided hours upon hours of entertainment for our kids so I thought a blog post should be dedicated to them.
This is one of Esther's kittens that her kids rescued from a tree. They have two cats that they acquired as kittens who were abandoned by their mother and brought home by Millie and George. As you can see, Avery adores them.
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