Old Tires Became Homes for Cats

Bursa Metropolitan Municipality transformed old automobile tires, which were collected from the streets, into cat houses. While the prepared cat houses were placed in the parks within the scope of 4 April Street Animal Protection Day; It is aimed to put 200 cat houses in nature by the end of the year.

Bursa Metropolitan Municipality, which gave health to stray animals last year with 14 thousand 524 treatments, 10 thousand 296 parasite treatments, 5 thousand 940 sterilizations, 4 thousand 992 vaccinations and 329 emergency interventions at Soğukkuyu Stray Animal Treatment Center, continues its care and feeding activities uninterruptedly. continues. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 160 tons of food have been distributed together with the spraying personnel and volunteer animal lovers. In addition, with the cooling of the weather, 17 dog kennels, 750 concrete-drinkers and 250 large food-mats were placed in places such as forest areas, dam edges, park areas, and coastlines in 70 districts for the shelter and feeding of their dear friends, and feeding activities were carried out at 1250 points.

Cat house

The Metropolitan Municipality, which has implemented every necessary work from sheltering to feeding stray animals, distributed 3 tons of food in the first 20 months of this year, and placed 50 more dog kennels in the needed areas. The Metropolitan Municipality, which started a special project for cats this year, protects both the environment and stray animals with this project. The Metropolitan Municipality, which collects old automobile tires that are randomly thrown into the environment, turns the waste tires into a cat house. The tires, which have been cleaned, painted and designed in such a way that cats can get inside and protect themselves from the cold, have begun to be placed in nature. Examining the cat houses placed in the green area at the entrance of Reşat Oyal Culture Park, Metropolitan Mayor Alinur Aktaş said, “With this project, tires polluting the environment turn into a warm home for our dear friends cats. In this way, we plan to build 200 cat houses by the end of the year and place them in areas filled with convulsions.”