SAMSUN, TURKEY – The northern province of Samsun, Turkey, a district committed completely to housing stray cats has been built. It is called the “cat town.” This facility was established within a 10, 000-kilometer forest area that is located within a municipal animal shelter. The Samsun Metropolitan Municipality built the facility in a period of a two years, in order to implement a comfortable and safe home surroundings for over fifty once homeless cats.
The animal shelter saves cats from the danger streets and then neuters and spays them. The cats are after that are brought to live happily in the cat town. The town doesn’t discriminate on health status or age or of any cat and even takes in cats with special needs.
Hüseyin Aydin is the manager and main vet of this animal shelter and aids the sick cats which are living within the facility. Aydin ensures the cats are treated before they are allowed to live with the others.
The town also has a walking tracks , bridges and bungalows for cats to live in either alone or if they so choose, with a group of other cats. The main aim of the team at this awesome facility is that the cats can live out the rest of their lives healthy and happy.
Aydin says that the facility is much like a five-star hotel for cats. Anything that the cats could possibly need for their life or their health is provided by the facility. Although they are now housing only 50 cats, Aydin says that they can surely extend the area to house more in the future.