Siddhartha( The Song of Wanderer)

     There's no stray cats in the world in fact. Cats are always wandering around every corner. Even if they do stay in human's house safe and sound. They are born vagrant.

     Keeping a cat is not as same as keeping a dog, you can't occupy cats. They are owned to no one except themselves. Therefore, many cats left people's house and never get back. And... we call the free cats around the street" stray cats. "

     Thousands of cats wander in the city day and night, also being captured day and night. In the past, which caught would be humanly destroyed(安樂死) after staying over twelve nights. A Taiwan movie Twelve Nights told the story of the last period of stray animals’ life.

     However, how come those innocent animals have to vanish under human’s selfishness?

     Most country carry out a plan, Trap Neuter(絕育) Return, abbreviates TNR. Governments try to control the quantity of stray animals by inhibiting their propagation. Cats go back to their place after ligated(結紮), being observed and recorded continuously. Though it’s quite effective and humane, it takes enormous cost and time. In order to respect and protect every precious life, it needs us to do effort, pay more attention on and keep it in mind.

     Next time when you see a cat walking among the street, look to his eyes, listen to him. You’ll find out that cats never get lost, ‘cause for them, there is no where to go. They are not looking for something, they are just living and sensing the world.