🇳🇱 KINDER NEWS♥️ Amsterdam is installing small wooden staircases along its canals after 19 cats drowned there in six months. The €100,000 project aims to help cats and other small animals safely climb out of the water, focusing on high-risk areas in collaboration with animal welfare groups.
Love everything about this. 😺♥️ Thanks for sharing @isabelsantos.bsky.social and looking forward to seeing the staircases when I'm in #Amsterdam this fall! #catcompassion
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Do these animal welfare groups care about the 1000s of wild birds killed by these cats?
In the city, they're killing pigeons. Flying rats.
There’s a pretty big difference between natural predation and an issue caused by manmade structures
Thanks that would never b happen in the USA.
Well, yeah, we could do that too. But Israel needs more 2000lb bombs to kill those Palestinian journalists and doctors so...
I was confused. I read ‘kindernieuws’ first. (Children’s news in Dutch.) But you mean kind news, right? 😂
Same. 😄
Another reason to live in Europe.
First: get people to stop throwing cats in the canal.
They'll throw anything into the canals in Amsterdam. youtu.be/_cBYuFUHjvM?...
love Bondi Treasure Hunter
Good for my drunk uncle too
$100k for some cats? Look, Amsterdam, you are cool and everything but someone is taking your money.
I have water features & bird baths. Tadpoles turning into frogs can climb out the smooth plastic vertical walls of a small pond, but something like a dragonfly nymph needs a reed or stick to climb from a relatively horizontal section to above the water line to molt.>
> If there's algae on the walls they can climb that, but the tadpoles eat the algae, so by the time they are mature the walls are pretty clean. Also, since there's no algae above the water they still can make it that last inch or two. Mice, lizards, birds can all die in this situation.>
> Heavy scratching of the plastic can help, but that's not an option if it's a rubber liner type pond. When designing, it's good to allow a crawlable way out or always maintain at least a stick going from the bottom to up and over the side. Always provide a way out.
......water they still CAN'T make it that...... (Hey BlueSky,...edit button, please)
Thank you Amsterdam.💜
Amsterdam animals are so soft!
Well, God bless Amsterdam! I've always loved this city, now, more than ever!!!! 🥰👍❤️💕😻
dei>A< for ALL
God I love these people. And not like god loves people, rather, REAL love.
Now there is a city with a heart. Thank you, Amsterdam!
What a caring country.
IN OTHER NEWS: America is bringing back small pox.
Just hang a rope over the side for the cats to climb up. Stairs would be for dogs.
THIS is how you measure decency. How you treat the weakest and needy around you speaks volumes about your character! Love this!
Is it so strange I cannot imagine living in a country where the govt CARES about things, other than being cruel?
100,000 Euros? Seems they could put in elevators for that kind of money. 😁
AI Slop
There are 30k homeless in the Netherlands and people are spending 100k euros on dogs.... www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2...
Cats not dogs and those 30K homeless people can get every help they need. If they stick to some basic rules...
If you keep using AI images people will rightfully stop trusting anything you post. If you don't have a proper photo just don't use one at all.
Your AI image generator got the stairs wrong.
AI is only as bad as general human stupidity makes it - so it's bound to be awful
His fingers are kind of wonky around the knuckles too.
So sweet, Amsterdam. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic ICE agents are abducting innocent men, women and children, terrorizing them and worse.
CAT LOVE! 😻
That’s the kind of country I want to live in. A place that cares about life.
This country is more concerned with saving cats than the GOP is about saving children. Let that sink in!
Beautiful project! Care for all creatures!
Thank you Amsterdam! You have been one of my three favorite cities for decades and this is a wonderful example of why.
In America, we spend tax money on a criminal president so his fragile ego remains in one piece.
Cool
Could they at least make them out of Trex decking or recycled plastic so they won't rot out in a few years and have to be replaced for another 100K
This staircase seems to be more helpful for the cats to climb onto the canal.
Including labor and materials, I gotta wonder why it costs that much. Are there that many high risk areas? Is this some kind of premium wood? I just don’t get the high price tag
Do you know how many canals there are in Amsterdam?
Miles and miles (over 60) of canals. What if they want a set of stairs positioned every 10ft ? That's over 31 thousand sets of stairs, built for less than 3 bucks each? Seems like a bargain.
gotta have meetings, draw up plans, have meetings about the plans, plans about the meetings, do the vendor bid for the contracts, have meetings about the vendor bid for the contract, and have public meetings about it every step of the way. It all adds up.
This is what I hate about government run civil projects - everything goes thru consultants first & then farmed out to a contractor that made campaign donations, raising the initial cost from $800 to $2.7million I’m not opposed to govt funding and spending on projects, but clean up the funding trail
Did that AI man cut off his right index finger in the making of these stairs?
But those stairs lead to a drop into the canal😱
It’s a good idea, though apparently no bid.
This image is fake. Why are the stairs made of unfinished wood? Why are they facing that way, being held so awkwardly? People use your brains god dammit.
The 100K comes from unused funds... www.vice.com/en/article/a...
America should care as much for their people as Amsterdam does for their pets. We have fallen so far.
If you have a pool, put a small section of hemp rope that dangles into the pool, it will save those lizards and such that fall in. Not only saves the animal, but keeps you from cleaning up the dead lizards out of your pool.
I bet Trump is working on a way to ban these staircases 😡
Wood????
I just hope they're not all backwards like this one.