일본의 길고양이와의 공생방법

The city of Saga has found an interesting way of dealing with stray cats. Instead of sending animal control officers to round up and imprison the cats, it has turned them into celebrities. Two years ago, eight of the downtown area’s stray cats were designated “stray cat idols.” Local shops began to sell souvenirs featuring images of the eight “lucky” cats, and one bakery sold cookie reproductions of them.

However, the project soon encountered a problem that wasn’t exactly unpredictable. Sometime last year, two of the eight cats could no longer be found. Stray cats are hard to track, and apparently they sometimes relocate to new areas or just disappear.

So two of the eight cats were gone, and the city had a couple dozen other stray cats wandering around downtown. To select new members of the lucky eight, they decided to follow the example of AKB48 and have fans elect the two top idol cats:

길냥이를 중성화한후 베이커리에서 캐릭터화해서 상품화시키고 인기투표를 하고 완전 마을의 스타로 만들어 버렸군요.
그에비해서 한국에서는 돌던지고 약풀고... 좀 문화적인 차이가 심하게 나는군요...
일본에서도 영역에서 쫒겨나거나 돌봐주지 못하는 길냥이라서 8마리중 2마리가 행방불명이 되었다고 하네요...
안타깝지만 동영상을 보시면 훨씬 이해하기 쉬울거에요.
 

어딜가나 노랑둥이는 빠지는곳이 없군요...
2마리는 투표를 해서 뽑네요... ㅎㅎㅎ