I was curious about how many lives a cat has depending on the country, so I decided to find as much info as I could and post it here.
The map is made in purple to help daltonic people understand it better. I've seen it should help with deuteranopia and protanopia mostly, but I'm very new to this so if you have any feedback, let me know ;)
Disclaimers
7 or 9 lives
The countries with 7 or 9 were the ones where I found some discrepancies depending on the region, but since the sources didn't state which region, I had to put the whole country.
Technically, Italy is also in that category, but I believe the people who says it's 9 lives is in very specific regions and 7 lives is way more used.
Cyprus
Although populated mostly by greeks, surprisingly most info I found pointed towards them saying 9 lives.
No info
There are some countries I couldn't find any definitive information and had to go with what other pages stated about their myths, these are:
- Syria
- Lebanon
- Palestine
- Irak
- Saudi Arabia
So I am very sorry to the arab folks living in those countries if I'm somehow mistaken about this ^^'
Other mistakes
I'm sure I have made some mistakes and assumptions about how many lives a cat has in some countries and I have put them closer to immortality or given them taxes on their lives, forgive me.
There's a whole sub in R*ddit called r/ewwphoria that is basically filled with these kind of interactions.
It is disgusting behaviour, but it's totally understandable why something awful like that would feel euphoric because it validates your gender identity in a twisted way.
You can feel offended and validated at the same time, they're not mutually exclusive. I hope you are in an otherwise safe place and can get lots of compliments that are not demeaning like that though 💜