Not quite feral - don't know how they'd survive in the wild - but there are quite a lot of street cats of no fixed address in Larnaca. Cypriots infamous for treatment of animals in general, and those who feed them or take them in are generally expats. Between us and Prinos greengrocer - a distance of three or four blocks - there is a skip that is a gathering place, if not exactly a home, for several cats. They look reasonably healthy, although the rubbish in the skip probably doesn't provide a balanced diet. We occasionally give them meat trimmings, though our diet is considerably less carnivore than the average Cypriot's. They now recognise J as a benefactor, though they're generally pretty skittish when people approach.
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