This is a lovely but highly romanticized documentary about stray cats in Istanbul and the people who are doing their best to care for them. And I could just leave it at that.
Unfortunately, when one knows better, one can't love a documentary that makes no mention at all of spay/neuter for street animals. All I could think of were the neglected animals which weren't shown in the movie (which anyone who has traveled in a non- first world country knows are there). I managed to catch a glimpse of only one cat with a clipped ear tip (the universal sign of a sterilized street animal), so, in the end, I found the movie sad. Feeding street animals without sterilizing them only increases their ability to reproduce and, while well meaning, is incredibly irresponsible. The filmmakers owed it to the cats to at least ask the question or make some mention of this.
Instead they focused on the pretty side of an essentially bad situation.
Unfortunately, when one knows better, one can't love a documentary that makes no mention at all of spay/neuter for street animals. All I could think of were the neglected animals which weren't shown in the movie (which anyone who has traveled in a non- first world country knows are there). I managed to catch a glimpse of only one cat with a clipped ear tip (the universal sign of a sterilized street animal), so, in the end, I found the movie sad. Feeding street animals without sterilizing them only increases their ability to reproduce and, while well meaning, is incredibly irresponsible. The filmmakers owed it to the cats to at least ask the question or make some mention of this.
Instead they focused on the pretty side of an essentially bad situation.