We’ve only been back in Youghal for a month or two so I can’t be certain, but I suspect that most of the cats we see throughout town are housed, and not feral. There’s one black kitty we’ve seen on the Slob Bank a couple of times who may or may not be the same one in the picture with the blue fence. A lot of them are camera shy, darting away as soon as I raise the camera or phone to my face. And the overwhelming majority of cats in Youghal are black and white. I have a vision of 17th century pirates landing in Youghal with a shipful of black and white kittens who then adopted and colonized the town, and we’re seeing their many times great grandkitties when we go out and about.
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