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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 21889031" data-attributes="member: 158020">-The Cat City -Kuching- The city of Kuching, in the state of Sarawak in Malaysia, is full of  cats. There are cats on the sidewalk, at traffic signals, in parks,  inside roundabouts and on rooftops. But unlike other cities, most of  Kuching’s feline population is in the form of statues and sculptures,  installed by the city’s cat-obsessed folks.   The obsession stems  from the city’s name. “Kuching” is thought to be a derivative of the  Malay word “kucing”, which means cat, but it is equally likely that the  name came from “cochin”, a Chinese word for port. Others believe that  the name was derived from a fruit called "mata kucing" that grows widely  in Malaysia and Indonesia. Local history also suggest that the city was  named after a small stream called "Sungai Kuching" or Cat River in  English, that ran through the town. The stream has since been filled in  and built over.   <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qB-dBACbolE/WVcuRWU4JrI/AAAAAAABS-g/LlqxhniD9iMAQHPv9yA3zoDkcyhpYiusgCHMYCw/kuching-86?imgmax=1600" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   The  state of Sarawak was once part of the Sultanate of Brunei, about 200  years ago, but as a reward for help in putting down a rebellion, it was  ceded to the British adventurer James Brooke who ruled it as his  personal kingdom. The Brooke Administration was given the status of  Protectorate under Rajah Charles Brooke's rule and was placed behind the  Indian Rajas and Princes. Brooke ran his kingdom admirably, providing  improved sanitation system to the dwellers, and completed several  developments including a hospital, a fort, a prison and many other  buildings. The Brooke family ruled Sarawak until the Japanese occupation  in December 1941.   According to a frequently repeated fable, when  James Brooke first arrived in Kuching, he asked his local guide the  name of the town. The guide thinking that James Brooke was pointing  towards a cat, said "Kuching". That the story is fabricated is evident  from the fact that ethnic Malays in Sarawak call cat "pusak" instead of  the Malay word "kucing". Besides, the name of "Kuching" was already in  use for the city by the time Brooke arrived in 1841.   Cat motifs can be found all around the city. As CNTraveller describes: A  cat fountain (opposite Hotel Grand Margherita Kuching), a cat column  capped with rafflesia flowers (on the roundabout at the corner of Jalan  Padungan and Jalan Chan Chin Ann), statues of a cat family at North City  Hall—Kuching seems to be suffering from cat fever! The lone 2½ m  tall, waving cat statue at the city boundary of Kuching North and  Kuching South (on a traffic island outside the Chinese ceremonial gate)  is hailed as the Great Cat of Kuching. The white cat with wire whiskers  called Nick is dressed up in traditional attire during major  festivals–red for Chinese New Year, green during Eid ul Fitr, Santa  clothes during Christmas and a traditional Iban vest during the local  harvest festival! There’s cat graffiti sprayed on the walls,  shops lined with cat souvenirs, catty t-shirts on sale, a Quiik Cat  B&B and even a Meow Meow Cat Café! A college in  Kuching is named I-CATS—the International College of Advanced Technology  Sarawak, and the local radio station is Cats FM.   Kuching’s most  famous cat attraction is the Cat Museum, containing over 4,000 artifacts  including paintings and memorials related to cats. Exhibits include a  mummified cat from ancient Egypt, a gallery of feline-related  advertising, and the five species of wild cats found in Borneo.   There  is a story that once in the 1950s, people in Borneo were dying of  malaria. So the authorities spread a lot of the insecticide DDT, which  although helped combat the malaria-carrying mosquitos but also killed a  large number of the island’s cats. The consequence of this was the rat  population flourished and they brought in plague. To solve the plague  problem, the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force air-dropped 14,000 cats  into rural Malaysian Borneo in a mission known as ‘Operation Cat Drop’.  Although the cat story is probably another fabrication, the story was  published so many times that it’s believed to have played a role in  getting DDT banned by the US Senate in 1972.   <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MPpNY7yXaXY/WVcuShxcn9I/AAAAAAABS-k/sXkBGG1pIWo39OVFx9sljnl3YNuNNfUtACHMYCw/kuching-12?imgmax=1600" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fO8uheLOAq8/WVcuUHB4VmI/AAAAAAABS-o/JOXyqIsBUGUFLjIb-rfUNoQks7EpGpUIACHMYCw/kuching-22?imgmax=1600" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gDJH1NbeG7E/WVcuVpoRJBI/AAAAAAABS-s/SHLBLdNod18QcuSkx1V-9bXKgWHgff8PgCHMYCw/kuching-76?imgmax=1600" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zWk31OZPGDU/WVcuWuF1ewI/AAAAAAABS-w/cDrSj97Vg1QrAvmZJ4mbNNuAUWlEbthQACHMYCw/kuching-42?imgmax=1600" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DcNEJS_y9D4/WVcuYW9KhCI/AAAAAAABS-0/jOTaxEoCEEcGjgD8hEQxsDdxpGUHwsyzgCHMYCw/kuching-52?imgmax=1600" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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