Caturday: stray cats hiding at the construction site.
Every week, I had to travel to Yannawa temple to feed stray cats in the car park or at the construction site. This meeting with stray cats has become a routine which I had to follow or I would feel very uncomfortable knowing that they were waiting for me. I have to quietly enter the big gate to the construction site which has become a forbidden area for outsiders. I just ignored the sign and walked in to feed a few stray cats hiding among the piles of bricks and cement blocks.
Luckily, the engineers had allowed me to feed these stray cats before they locked up the gate. I wondered if they happened to lock up inadvertently, I would have to climb up the tall gate to get out! The management wouldn’t be pleased and I would certainly get into trouble with the head monk.
Three cats seemed to be living among the brick piles for safety. These cats couldn’t get along with the majority of stray cats living in the car park area. The black cat used to be part of the five black cats but he got chased out of the gang; I wondered what he did wrong. But Grey was a very timid kitten abandoned by his mother, he became very ill and skinny that I thought he wouldn’t survive.
I was so glad that he pulled through the hard time and has gained some weight. He became very good friend with the black cat. At least Grey was no longer a lonely cat. The other fat and elderly black cat seemed to have disappeared altogether. It’s possible that she was already dead among the piles of rubbles.
Feeding time is getting more confusing as all the cats seemed to come out of their hiding places at the same time. Once a cat started to cry out for food, the others would rush out to get some too. Before the construction began, I wound able to go quietly to each corner to feed a few cats at a time. Some cats had to move into the parking lot as the site became very noisy with machines and workmen during the day.
Uncertainty in life has affect several cats lifestyle as well as mine. I just hoped that once the heavy machines arrived to do piling work, these cats would be smart enough to move to safer places.
Stray cats marching in the car park!
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Glad you like these poor cats!
It's amazing they don't leave the place to search for more food when you are not there. I suppose in those places there would be the odd mouse or two.
It makes me think of the future if some humans end up in this living situation. Will someone like you be there to feed us haha. Oh wait, I guess it's already like that for humans. Only the walls are invisible.
I guess they were born inside the temple so that place is their home. There is a small and skinny monk who feed these cats a few times a week. I my friend just donated a bag of cat food to him the other week.
Two big old buildings were demolished so the mice’s den has disappeared! There are several squirrels but they are high on the trees. One or two local people came to give some cats the left over food. But timid or injured cats were too afraid to get to the food.
There are some kind people who go around at night distributing food boxes to hundreds of homeless people around Bangkok. I saw long lines of these people at night near the train station. There are a few spots where homeless people hide and sleep during the day. This is probably why these people til could survive and don’t cause a riot!
But political riots are coming later in the year!
I'm so glad there are feeders for the cats. This shows that people are good and have compassion. The folks delivering food to the homeless are admirable. I hope your riots don't end up in bloodshed like in the past.
Here we are having a historical protest involving thousands of truckers, heading for the parliament, you may have heard. It will be interesting to see what happens. It could free us up a bit who knows. The truckers have the best weapons. They can just crash into the building if they want. I hope it's peaceful though.