Very excited to keep reading, as we just signed up for Egypt and Jordan with Collete. Thanks so much for the excellent report.
If Egypt is like Turkey or Morocco, then cats and dogs are something between celebrated and tolerated. Istanbul has 7 mobile vet vans for the street animals, and we saw cats and dogs inside stores, and even one cat on top a security x-ray machine at the port sleeping in one of those "put your small things in here" buckets. Morocco had cats houses set up near entrances to various places for the street cats to sleep. We heard a story about Mohammed cutting off the sleeve of his robe so a sleeping cat would not be disturbed as one of the reasons for the cultural tolerance. That still leaves lots of animals without the care and keeping we would like to see since ultimately they're still street animals. It's a sometimes uncomfortable dichotomy.
If Egypt is like Turkey or Morocco, then cats and dogs are something between celebrated and tolerated. Istanbul has 7 mobile vet vans for the street animals, and we saw cats and dogs inside stores, and even one cat on top a security x-ray machine at the port sleeping in one of those "put your small things in here" buckets. Morocco had cats houses set up near entrances to various places for the street cats to sleep. We heard a story about Mohammed cutting off the sleeve of his robe so a sleeping cat would not be disturbed as one of the reasons for the cultural tolerance. That still leaves lots of animals without the care and keeping we would like to see since ultimately they're still street animals. It's a sometimes uncomfortable dichotomy.
