• Reyali@lemm.ee
    18·
    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.

    • Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      12·
      1 month ago

      The reason for its change was the names association with the animal, the gov didn’t like it. But like nobody from turkey actually cares, it’s just a formal thing. Funny thing: we call India Hindistan (which means land of the turkey).

    • norimee@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 month ago

      Yeah, the asked the international community not to call them after a water fowl big chicken anymore and use their native name for the country instead. Officially it always was “Republic of Türkiye” and not Turkey anyways.

      • angrystego@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 month ago

        The funny thing is the bird is called turkey after the country (despite being american), not the other way around.

      • doingthestuff@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 month ago

        It can go either way. There are some community cats in my neighborhood but also we have one feral rescue in our house who definitely knows our house is home. She goes out a couple times a day and rarely uses a litter box but she always comes right back in. Even if it’s a beautiful day and she stays outside longer, she stays right by the house.

  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    1 month ago

    I need to see their definition of cat ownership. I’m not (much of) an idiot, but my cats are smarter than me so I’d consider them the owners. They lay around all day and get treats whenever they want, after all. Only work they have to do is get snuggles when I want and eat bugs, which is something they seem to enjoy. I mean, if I could figure out how to get that kind of arrangement wouldn’t you?

    • angrystego@lemmy.world
      4·
      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.

  • elmicha@feddit.org
    2·
    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).

    • norimee@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 month ago

      Really? It seemed low to me?

      But I’m a cat person and pay special attention when someone mentions their Katze.

  • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    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

    • k2helix@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 month ago

      I mean we love cats too. There are many stray cats but usually someone takes care of them in an altruistic way. For instance every time (and I mean every single time) I walk to uni I see the same woman feeding the same cats in the same place. Or in my town depending on the street, if you watch carefully you can see food bowls and water for cats.

      Don’t know why ownership percentage is so low though. I’d say dogs are more popular, and birds probably for children.