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Petishism, or Animals in the City and on the Islands: Case Study of the Island of Silba

The first part of the article (authored by Suzana Marjanić) documents the fact that city authorities throughout Croatia do not encourage needed care for stray dogs and cats, i.e. the construction of state and private shelters for abandoned and lost animals, as well as feeding stations. For instance, Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, does not have a shelter for cats. The final segment of this first part of the article documents key Documented are also animal studies exhibitions in Croatia, two of which were organised in Zagreb in the same year – an artistic one All Our Animals – Animals as Subjects in Croatian Modern Fine Arts (Modern Gallery, Zagreb, 2017), and the other from the aspect of zoo-ethnology and anthropology of animals: Sve naše životinje. Animalističke teme u hrvatskoj modernoj likovnoj umjetnosti (All Our Animals – Animals as Subjects in Croatian Modern Fine Arts, Modern Gallery, Zagreb, 2017, exhibition author: Dajana Vlaisavljević) and O životinjama i ljudima (Of Animals and Humans, (Ethnographic Museum, Zagreb, 2017, authors: Željka Petrović Osmak, Tea Rittig Šiško, Gordana Viljetić), both of which, naturally, also featured cats. The second part of the article (authored by by Rosana Ratkovčić) notes the fact that the number of stray cats on Croatian islands increases each year, /each tourist season as pets brought by tourists are frequently left behind at the end of summer vacation. On the example of the island of Silba and its only (eponymous) town, we will demonstrate is presented how the local population’s good practices of has self-organised ation for the protection of the island's stray cats.

petishism, human-animal studies, stray cats, island of Silba

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