Claws Bared in Row Over Shelter for Auschwitz Cat

Reuters ^ | Thu Feb 11, 2010 | Dagmara Leszkowicz and Janusz Chmielewski

[DogByte6RER]

A cat rests on a windowsill next to the gate of the former Nazi camp of Auschwitz in Oswiecim January 27, 2010.

Credit: Reuters/Kacper Pempel

[randomhero97]

That's kind of creepy.

I'm a big time cat person, but the cat doesn't need a shelter if they plan on leaving it there. It will get along just fine.

[sinanju]

It’s a half-wild “barn cat”. It won’t use a shelter.

She don’t need no pampering.

[DogByte6RER]

ping

[Slings and Arrows]

[skr]

She probably knows where all the warmer places are when she tires of keeping watch.

[billorites]

Remarkable thing is that she doesn’t look in the least Jewish.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Grumpy kitty is grumpy.

[Think free or die]

"She probably knows where all the warmer places are when she tires of keeping watch."

I bet she does. She also probably knows where to mooch scraps. Kitty looks pretty healthy.

[beckysueb]

My sister lives in Minnesota and has 3 outdoor cats. As everyone knows the winters in Minnesota are brutal. She has a doghouse with heated blankets in it for the cats and she feeds them warm food every day. They also sleep in a basement window well where the warm air from the house seeps out through the window.

[PA Engineer]

Buy it a plastic igloo cat shelter. If it uses it then put it away in the spring. If it doesn’t then donate it to an animal shelter. This is kind of strange. Cats are different.

[GOP_Resurrected]

Hey wasn’t there a story about the sign was stolen a while back? Did they recover it?

[Kirkwood]

Are they going to catch all the other wild animals and put them in a shelter also? Idiots.

[rbosque]

Kitler!

[MHGinTN]

Best shelter is a large plastic storage bin with lid tied on and a hole cut in the top at one end then the thing laid on its side. I have the porch furniture cushions in the one I made for the two porch cats that have adopted me.

[Minn]

"Arbeit macht frei" ("Work sets you free") sign at the entrance to the camp.

I thought that sign was stolen. Did they find it and bring it back?

[PzLdr]

“Rudolf”. As in Hoess? “Bruno” as in Strechenbach?

[goldfinch]

Operating from memory here...always dangerous in my case but I don't have time to look it up right now to verify the details. In short...they found the sign around a week after it was stolen. The sign was in three pieces but can be fixed. In the last couple of days, they arrested a Neo-Nazi type in Norway (I think) in connection with the crime.

Now...about this story...They need to find a place to build that cat a shelter and make sure she has food and water daily.

[dfwgator]