TURKISH KITTENZZZ

Istanbul seems to have a serious stray cat problem. They are everywhere. On the street and the sidewalk, under cars, sitting on window ledges, under your table as an outdoor seafood restaurant, kicking it in the grocery story on the corner. EVERYWHERE.

Thanks to online comics' thorough documentation of human behavioral phenomena when in the presence of kitty cats, I can visually demonstrate to you my reversion to a five-year-old mindset whenever a cat enters my field of vision...

...and further my increasing inanity as said cat's cute furry wonderful soft cuteness get closer and closer to me.

So, I've spent the last two days being kind of stoked by the constant presence of cats, especially because they make me think of Mineu the Cat (also sometimes referred to as The Most Amazing Cat in the World) and, of course, Bike House's warrior kittens Tomahawk, Ranger, and Coconut the Enterprise. But while Mineu the Cat is relatively straightfoward in her unrivaled beauty and inspiring grace (i.e. she eats, sleeps, and rolls over, never straying far from the safety and warmth of inside my parents' house), the Istanbul kitties tell some different stories. They are very beautiful, and very sad.