• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 month ago

      The only reason Portugal exists is because Spain was a dog centric society and they banished all the cat people to one corner of the peninsula thousands of years ago.

      (This might be true, but that would be quite the coincidence since I just made it up)

  • Reyali@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 month ago

    Not the point of the graphic at all, but this is the second time recently I saw the spelling “Turkiye” and was wondering the context behind that change, wondering if it was anything like the change in the spelling of Kyiv (which has now been so engrained in my head that I had to go look up the Russian spelling “Kiev”).

    I looked it up and it appears Türkiye has been their own spelling for over 100 years, and they just petitioned the UN to update the spelling of the country’s name in 2021.

    Cool, so Türkiye it is! (Plus my phone automatically adds the umlaut, so that’s handy!)

    Also in Türkiye they don’t own cats, the cats own them.

    • Moghul@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 month ago

      Romania is easily explained with the fact that a lot of it is rural and basically everyone living in a village has a cat. There are also stray city cats that people feed that they might consider as theirs.

      Turkey and Greece are a bit more surprising to me. I guess people don’t consider stray cats theirs even if they feed them.

  • elmicha@feddit.org
    1·
    1 month ago

    I don’t know, but for Germany that seems way too high. Maybe I just don’t see all the indoor cats in the cities (where more than 75% of the people live).

  • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 month ago

    Kinda interesting that Spain is surrounded by two countries with +30% cat ownership but themselves have 16%. Is there something about Spanish society that lowers cat ownership? I read a pet census (2017 tho) which seems to infer the percentage of cat lovers is even lower than this chart, with 8% of households (again 2017) having multiple cats per household creating an inflated 16% number. While Spaniards love dogs as much as anyone, interestingly birds are actually more popular than both cat or dog.

    Man, anyone from Spain? I wanna hear the word on the street

    • angrystego@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 month ago

      That sounds logical, but if you look at the map, there are countries with low ownership like Greece, Italy and Turkey, where there are loads of street cats everywhere. There are many cats there, just not so many owners. There can be less birds in countries with street cats compared to countries where cats are kept mainly indoors.

    • SuperApples@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 month ago

      You don’t see many cats out and about in Bucharest. Best move to Greece (or Turkey, I hear). In Athens the city microchips and makes sure “stray” cats and dogs get veterinary care. Public parks are filled with cats so you can’t eat your lunch without making a few friends, and you can’t park a motorcycle without a cat parking itself on the seat. Even the hill the Acropolis is on is covered in cats.