Redhead, green-eyed, easily finds a common language with young readers - such an image of Cota Murlyk - the inhabitant of the Nizhny Novgorod State Regional Children's Library.
Murlyka settled on Christmas Street, 5 back in 1919. He is the oldest cat of Nizhny Novgorod - he went 102 years old. It is not surprising that March 1 - on the day of cats - many guests gathered in the children's regional library.
In the program of the holiday - fun games, reading books about the cat, an exhibition with a variety of thematic crafts, suitable can even draw on the sand.
By the way, the original sources claim that it was the Egyptians who were the first to settle the cats next to them - more than 3.5 thousand years ago. They gave the cat's first name - nonsense that translated into Russian "dear". In many cultures, cats consider good animals that scare the evil.
In Russia, a blessing animal - the cat went in the 11th century, did not build a house without the sucked and did not go to the hut. Today around the world there are more than 50 types of domestic cats. These animals are firmly entered into our culture. They are not only pets, but the heroes of books, paintings, films and cartoons.
The past-striped is perpetuated in the monumental genre, in Moscow, for example, a monument to Kotu Hippo and Koroviev, in Voronezh - Kotu from Lieseukov Street, in Yoshkar-Ola - the famous Yoshkina Kotu. Today there are about 600 million cats in the world - two thirds of them are homeless. And this does not mean that they were born on the street.
Five times the owners took Mayakovsky home and six - returned back. From stress, he began to lose wool and stopped trusting people. For the treatment of wounds of physical and spiritual, several months left, they speak in the Veterinary Hospital "ZOO protection NN". Such stories here, unfortunately, are not uncommon.
This is a kind of Elizarov apparatus for four-legged - design helps to combine bones. Valeria is for about two months. In the hospital, they hope that in March it will be able to remove and start looking for a new owner for a modest cat. From the hospital, part of already healthy darkness falls on the overexposure, but the main thing - in the shelter "zood-seeking NN", a month is about 100 cats.
Volunteers help socialize animals. It can be another lonely tightened and tailed by each other - for this you only need to get instruction in the Volunteer program. But, probably, the best gift for each of the wards of the shelter is a warm and cozy house. You can learn about the fate of the wards of "compassion" in the official group of the Foundation in VKontakte or at the address: Bournakovsky passage, 16.