Daily Pic 26 : Cats in the Botanic Gardens


The Garden is full of cats.

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Justin said…
Are they feral? Or do they belong to somebody? Feral cats are the worst thing for the local fauna, but maybe that's a purely Australian view, since we're an island over here.

Jus xo
19 October 2008 at 21:43
Andrew Owen said…
But darling, if the opposite of belonging to someone was feral then we're all feral to some extent.

Seriously though it's hard to say. This city is all about dogs, pampered poodles and sophisticated shih tzu's are king - except in the botanical gardens where the cats rule the roost. Someone feeds them (food on display) and they all look like domestic varieties and very tame, so who can say!
20 October 2008 at 03:26
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