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40 Unique Personalities Of Stray Cats As Captured By This Japanese Photographer (New Pics)
Japanese Masayuki Oki is not your usual street photographer. Instead of photographing urban landscapes, street style, or architecture, his lens targets the cute little wanderers of Tokyo. Armed with a Canon EOS-1D X, Masayuki follows the footsteps of stray cats in a mission to document all the street felines of the world.
Masayuki’s photography has attracted a solid fanbase with 199k followers on his Instagram account. Every day, he shares a snap of streetwise meowsers goofing around, chilling out, sometimes fighting, other times embracing each other in what seems to be a whole new and exciting world.
So get ready for the heart-melting stray cat collection from the land of the rising sun, which will fill your heart with the warmth we all need these days. And after you’re done, be sure to check out more of Masayuki Oki’s pictures in our previous post right here.
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Russell Ellwardt 5 years ago
Striking difference between the imagination of cats' personality displayed in those kitschy "Hello Kitties" and the reality.
Karen Scheltema 5 years ago
The juxtaposition of the sappy Hello Kitty in the background and the cat fight in the foreground is something else.
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Little letitia 5 years ago
Lord please bless this crop and may we all receive a plentiful catnip harvest. Amen.
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varwenea 5 years ago
Even stray cats look happier in Japan than other countries. There's just something amicable about Japan.
Draaideur 5 years ago
Does anyone know why so many Japanese street cats have partially cut of tails? I lived there for 2 years and never understood this.
Myriam Ickx 5 years ago (edited)
All these cats look well-fed, happy, and extremely friendly towards each other, like a well-behaved contented community. Really striking. The thing about their tails: many cats in Japan have either no tail or just a stump. Nothing to do with the Manx cat too. It's genetic to Japanese cats. There is a kind of tail, sort of curling on itself and slightly bushy, which is very sought after: it's called "chrysanthemum tail".
Ms Phit 5 years ago
Nope, didn't say anything asinine or anything :-) Was just checking to see if my account was working again... apparently, it is! My BP was screwed up for the past month or so. Very distressing!
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Jenifer Riggs 5 years ago
I know some countries catch feral cats to neuter or spay then release them after marking them by clipping the ear tips?? Maybe they clip the tails in Japan? Though that seems to be a bit of an extreme way, perhaps its just their genetics? There are stubby tailed cat breeds.
Wendillon 5 years ago
I was wondering too, since the tails don't exactly look docked so maybe it's just a genetic mutation?
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Raine Soo 5 years ago (edited)
I hope that your are joking, rather than ignorant. The Japanese love their cats, and this is evident as many of these strays look better than cats in other countries that have homes. The Japanese have a feline symbol for good luck in the maneki-neko. And, even though not invented in Japan, there are more cat cafes there than in any other place in the world.
Load More Replies... varwenea 5 years ago
Even stray cats look happier in Japan than other countries. There's just something amicable about Japan.
Draaideur 5 years ago
Does anyone know why so many Japanese street cats have partially cut of tails? I lived there for 2 years and never understood this.
Myriam Ickx 5 years ago (edited)
All these cats look well-fed, happy, and extremely friendly towards each other, like a well-behaved contented community. Really striking. The thing about their tails: many cats in Japan have either no tail or just a stump. Nothing to do with the Manx cat too. It's genetic to Japanese cats. There is a kind of tail, sort of curling on itself and slightly bushy, which is very sought after: it's called "chrysanthemum tail".
Ms Phit 5 years ago
Nope, didn't say anything asinine or anything :-) Was just checking to see if my account was working again... apparently, it is! My BP was screwed up for the past month or so. Very distressing!
Load More Replies... Jenifer Riggs 5 years ago
I know some countries catch feral cats to neuter or spay then release them after marking them by clipping the ear tips?? Maybe they clip the tails in Japan? Though that seems to be a bit of an extreme way, perhaps its just their genetics? There are stubby tailed cat breeds.
Wendillon 5 years ago
I was wondering too, since the tails don't exactly look docked so maybe it's just a genetic mutation?
Load More Replies... Raine Soo 5 years ago (edited)
I hope that your are joking, rather than ignorant. The Japanese love their cats, and this is evident as many of these strays look better than cats in other countries that have homes. The Japanese have a feline symbol for good luck in the maneki-neko. And, even though not invented in Japan, there are more cat cafes there than in any other place in the world.
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