What are the "Cat Winery" and why did they drive crazy in New York?

When Gay Talese wrote his profile in New York he did not forget to talk about the "cat squads" They patrol the city on the docks, the subway and the streets. The reporter described Three types of rodent hunters. One of them is the part time restaurant store.

These pussies eat well and scare rodents from the store or its stores, where they spend the day, but prefer to roam the street at night. They are related to full-time store cats, with whom they share the right to sleep in the shop window.

Despite the fact that the population of these last cats without a pinch of vagabond has decimated, subsist and are known as cellar cats (cat winery, in English) almost exclusively in the big apple.

These kittens they are workers who make a living by accompanying the grocer, chasing rats and insects from corner stores in exchange for food and shelter. According to Magzter's virtual magazine kiosk, its main predators are health department representatives who threaten to expel them.

Tamar Arslanian, the blogger behind the site "I have a cat" (I have a cat), published a book with photographs from Andrew Marttila who took them to visit the New York stores tell how cats live in these companies and the communities that form around him.

The book, published in 2016, denies some myths about cats in the cellaras these pussies are more neglected than their counterparts at home. They live, for example, in the Japanese market, in Chinatown, in the community bookstore Pending Park in Brooklyn, in a photocopy center also in Brooklyn or in a cigarette store in Hell & # 39; s Kitchen, Manhattan.

Talese said that once an allergic tank top to cats slaughtered all the rodent hunters of the wharf. As a result, a plague broke out. "In a few days there were rats everywhere"People saw them on the package, these animals stole lunches and they even attacked the senders.

That's why New Yorkers value cellar cats. same they have admirers, regular shoppers who know their namesthey pamper them and give them food. The Arslanian, entitled "Shop Cats of New York", shows the comfort and confidence with which these kittens live.

The love for these kittens is displayed in the bodegacatsofinstagram account in the social network of the photos that shows how they live and the locations of the shops where they work.