The Guardian, of all places (think: newspaper from cold & dreary nation reporting on happenings in subtropical island paradise), has a story about the US DOA possibley fining the Hemingway House $200/day for its cats.
Having been there a couple of times, I know that I would not want to be one of those cats---there are 46 of them, and there's no real way even an institution can really claim to be taking care of them. Sure, they're putting food out, and I have no doubt that many of the part-time docents really do care about particular cats, but there's just not enough attention to go around.
No, those cats are feral but habituated to being around people, much, I suspect, like the cows in India, which are allowed to roam, and regarded with affection, but rarely actually cared for. I seem to remember that many are diseased (tuberculosis comes to mind, but geez, that's got to be wrong, I hope), and since they belong to no one, their lives are, perhaps, not what they might have been.
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