Abdelrahman Abdelhafez
Jess RoseCoin operated vending machines dispensing kibble for streetcats are my favourite shared infrastructure discovery this week.
arutaz@jessie I just glanced at the first image without reading any text and I thought it was a kitten vending machine 😅🤦🏼♂️🐈⬛
Daniel Pache⚓
DJ ToebeansThe cat distribution system has gotten so efficient!
Natalie
Martin Gleadow@jessie but how do the cats reach the coin slot?
Ray McCarthy@raymaccarthy @jessie in their purrs of course!
luca
Tobias Schächtelin@jessie I have never seen such a machine, definitely not in Germany. Do they exist also elsewhere than Istanbul?
Carina C. Zona@tschach they're in Malta too, though typically you put your plastic deposit bottles in as payment instead of cash. Streets are cleaner, kitties (and other wildlife) get fed.
Rob@robchapman I saw them on Gozo. iirc the machines also raised money for the local animal shelter.
@cczona Ah they're not specifically for cat food, sadly. However many cat feeders collect BCRS vouchers to buy food for the strays, or for the cat sanctuaries. Before the country tightened its rules on money laundering, charity shops collected for the cats, now there are barely any charity shops as they all became registered thrift shops overnight which cut off a vital source of revenue for the people who voluntarily feed the strays here.
@robchapman this was 2 years ago but the one by my home definitely dispensed food. I was startled by how big the cascade was.
@robchapman to be clear, it's not the municipal machines. They're alternative, smaller, and I _think_ donation only. I think the internals were only collecting the bottles for the charity to redeem, not shredding like the municipal machines. The one near my home was 15-20m from a cluster of municipal machines.
@cczona sounds like it was a bottle drop to collect bottles, and then someone did the BCRS redeeming. It's a good idea, I've never seen bottle drop bins on Malta, but that's probably because people literally sift through other people's rubbish bags looking for redeemable bottles. I like that they want people to recycle bottles, but the scheme has simply created a raft of other problems
@robchapman locked bottle drop, but also kibble dispenser. The ferals in the neighborhood knew to watch anyone lingering near it, and converged on the freshly dispensed kibble as soon as you withdrew far enough to not be a threat anymore. Though the design seemed a bit flawed to me. It just dumped a bunch of kibble into an open bin that was exposed to the weather. So potentially dumping it on top of moldy food. One hopes the bin is scrubbed frequently.
Jeff Atwood@jessie awesome, where is this??
Dwight Silverman@codinghorror @jessie Istanbul, which is renowned for its street cats.
@codinghorror @jessie Also raccoons appreciate it, too.
@codinghorror @jessie There's a great documentary about the street cats of Istanbul. Worth seeing!
Kedi - Official U.S. Trailer - Oscilloscope Laboratories
Heather 👻@Akki @dsilverman @codinghorror Oh heck, maybe I'll watch this when I'm feeling especially emotionally resilient...
@dsilverman @codinghorror Kedi was the first non-food word I learned in Turkish, thank you! I'll watch this.
@dsilverman @jessie this is great! Our family watched this too! 😻
Energetic Nova@dsilverman @codinghorror @jessie
I guessed this was Turkish because of exactly that
musluman@codinghorror Istanbul, I’ve only seen the machines up around the Grand Bazzar but there’s informal cat food and water stations around the city and different parts of the city give out little shelters folks can set up for cats.
Robin Barton@jessie How do the cats get the coins?
myrmepropagandist@futurebird @jessie good point. Them and racoons
Not a Spring OnionAverage duration for a cat to find out how to guide a person to that machine: 0.01s
Brynawel
DI love how one can count on the cats telling people to put coins in the machine. I'm shocked there isn't a cat demanding more coins in these photos.
Kathy Reid@jessie I love this from a shared social infrastructure framing - it's like we can feel street cats better than we can care for unhoused peopled :/
@KathyReid this specific photo was near the book market where the cats had gotten housecat levels of fussy about what food they would accept.
Ives
diana 🏳️⚧️🦋🌱And this cat food dispensing machine is solar powered 😻🌞
fritzoids
Sheepnik@jessie And then there's the seagulls that have learnt to meow by said machines in the hope that they'll get food too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxdho7mp01g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxdho7mp01g
Seagull meows to get free cat food in Turkey #cat #seagulls #shorts #funnyshorts
The Witch of Crow Briar@jessie look at those sad little faces, how could you not?? 😭
dalia rezk@jessie I love cats so much. I used to share my loaf of bread with them when we were starving. Poor thing.
Martin Vermeer FCD@jessie Remembering Kedi the movie
Toastface@jessie Trying not to think about the fact all that cat food is locked up until someone decides to pay them to feed stray cats.
@Toastface I cannot overstate how many options local street cats have for food! This machine was near the book market, where the cats are pampered enough where they were not interested in the dispensed kibble.
Jeffrey Rogers 🏴@jessie Doubles the number of cats, halves the number of birds.
0tracas 🖤
Dragon Vertigo@temptoetiam ⬆️ Tu l'as déjà celle-là ?
Abie@TheOtterDragon oooh ! <3
Rock'n'Roll_φapy 🔻@jessie
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