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Why cats have a secret ear pocket
by Darina Schweizer
Adopting a cat, part 1: I’m looking for a shelter with indoor cats
31.1.2025
Translation: Patrik Stainbrook
The time has finally come: I’m adopting my first indoor cats. Finding furballs I love in one of the many animal shelters I’m visiting shouldn’t be a problem. Right?
It’s a joke, really. I write about cats on Galaxus every week and don’t even have any myself. Or at least not any more. I grew up with four-legged friends, but since moving out of my parents’ house, there’s been a furry hole in my heart. I was never able to fill it – due to a lack of possible outdoor access or at least balconies in the old town where I live. Until my husband and I recently moved house.
Nevertheless, Uschi’s approach appeals to me. It’s consistent with an interview I conducted some time ago with the Foundation for Animals in the Law:
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Naturally, I want to have a look at the little things and how they’re kept. I immediately arrange a visit with Uschi. I already have my eye on red tabby tom Lorenzo, black and white Yumi as well as grey tabby Haru and calico Olly, who met and fell in love at the shelter. Who will we choose? Follow me if you want to know what happens next.
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Darina Schweizer
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Darina.Schweizer@digitecgalaxus.chI love anything with four legs or roots - especially my shelter cats Jasper and Joy and my collection of succulents. My favourite things to do are stalking around with police dogs and cat coiffeurs on reportages or letting sensitive stories flourish in garden brockis and Japanese gardens.
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