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Hope you want cats! There are greater than 1,000 of them on this campus. About 1,200 really, though it is unattainable for the employees to rely all of them as a result of … cats.
About 30 years in the past, the American College of Beirut (AUB) began taking in cats deserted throughout years of struggle in Lebanon. Throughout final 12 months’s struggle with Israel, it gained a couple of hundred that have been dumped at its gate.
AUB has an enormous, sprawling campus stuffed with towering bushes and inexperienced areas main all the way down to the Mediterranean Sea (sure, it’s as stunning because it sounds), and a number of the cats are shy, so it would not get overwhelming.
There are all types of cats: purebreds, in addition to scrappy road cats. The college spays, neuters and vaccinates them and tries to undertake out those it could actually.
Not everyone seems to be a fan of cats, however college students are required to not be imply to them. So the cats meander out and in of open doorways. Often they sit in lecture rooms. And there are many college students who love them. This can be a irritating place in irritating occasions. Typically simply petting a cat helps.
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