Lest anyone doubt, even for just a moment, that life in Jerusalem is not a constant struggle between the real and the insane, here is a post from Janglo encouraging Jerusalemites to purchase styrofoam boxes and to leave those boxes outside in their neighborhoods, so that street cats – street cats, for crying out loud! – can live there.
Subject: [janglo] Society for the Protection of Street Cats – Correction on Prices
Date: 3 December 2004 2:32:05 PM IST
To: janglo@yahoogroups.comIt should read The Society for the Protection of Street Cats is selling styrofoam boxes that can be used to shelter homeless cats from the rain, wind, and cold (as well as the burning sun in the summer months). They can be picked from Etta in the German Colony. NIS 50 for large boxes and NIS 35 for smaller ones. Call Etta at XXXXXXX
Thanks a lot and Shabbat Shalom,
Shifra
Sometimes I honestly wonder what is going on in other people’s heads.
Crazy? What an incredible service! I ordered 17 of them and have build street cat ‘project blocs’ in my backyard. The downside is that now there is a catnip cartel in the neighborhood dealing ‘nip to all the kittens. You just can’t win.
Came across your blog while searching for information on Ethiopian Jews.
Your from the US originally right? So, if you have some free time maybe you can e-mail me and tell me about the daily life in Israel. I go to college in a small town of 15,000 but it feels more like 1,000 :)
Mai-Kim
I think it’s really creative and different, and a caring idea :)