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Japanese Photographer Captures Stray Cats Having Fun And Not Giving A Damn In The World
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Japanese Photographer Captures Stray Cats Having Fun And Not Giving A Damn In The World

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Sometimes, it’s not about where you are but rather who you’re with. A Japanese photographer who goes by the name of Nyankichi Rojiupa has found a group of stray cats who have turned a street with drain pipe holes into their playground, and his images perfectly show just how much fun these silly cats are having.

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“I casually stumbled upon these feral cats and now spend all of my weekends with them taking adorable cat photos,” Rojiupa told Bored Panda. And even though the photographer doesn’t have any cats of his own, he’s befriended quite a few of them. “I’ve managed to earn their trust to the point where they act as playful pets.”

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The cute cats’ specialty is hopping in and out of drain pipe holes, striking adorable poses. And when these loveable furballs aren’t busy doing PAWkour, they let Rojiupa pet them.

However, the photographer said that every now and then somebody’s starts raising concerns about the friendship he shares with these critters. According to him, some speculate that his cute cat photos might attract those who might harm the animals. “The cats live on a private, protected property,” Rojiupa assured us.

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Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to.

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Rokas Laurinavičius

Rokas Laurinavičius

Author, BoredPanda staff

Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to.

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FortnitePlayerGirl
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5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These are very cute and touching, and it makes me wish that every cat could have a home.

Dan Pedersen
Community Member
5 years ago

I love these shots to the moon and back, I really got my dosage of cuteness for today <3

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glowworm2
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The cats poking out the holes are adorable. These made me smile!

diane a
Community Member
5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Awww sweet cats - all look pretty healthy too. Nice that someone is looking out for them. I do worry about the hole sizes though - what does a heavily pregnant cat do? Also I wonder how many dead cats are down there, sick and injured animals will always take shelter.

Johnny
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those concrete tiles with the holes the cats go in are removable. Neighbors will remove them periodically and clean out those drainage ditches. So if a cat does get stuck, it's a simple matter of removing the cover. In some places those covered drainage ditches are open, so the cat can also just walk out to the next open space.

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Milena
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is so much emotion in these photos! I loved them! Thank you for sharing!

Josefin Sigfalk
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so beautiful! They look so cheeky. I wanna be friends with all of them now :D

Reilly Beryll
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love them so much!!! Please take the best care you can!!! Hopefully this will inspire people in the area to help those kitter-puffs. I love their little bleps!

Nikki D
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love the one where he is giving it water, so sweet and trusting. They don't seem to be the least bit feral.

madapult
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They are so cute! Hope someone nice adopts them! Actually- he should adopt them and bring them out to play!!!

Kenny Kulbiski
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I was walking by and a cat popped out of a hole in the sidewalk it would probably take surgery to get the smile of my face.

Lexie G
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wish I could upvote so much more. I'm so glad that these cats have somebody that's feeding them and that they are happy and playing. I just love these pics. As a cat owner I'm so happy that they are taken care of.

nvee
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh so beautiful... when we were in Turkey... the cats were the same ... love em ... thank you ... brings so many smiles

SirPatTheCat
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like the one that kept sitting in the hole and poking his head out. :D

spirit wolf
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dear God please let me be a cat in my next many lives. Thank you!

Freya the Wanderer
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cats are amazing! They can turn any place into a feline playground. Those cats look as though they are well-fed, so people in the neighborhood probably feed them - though they should be fixed.

Karen Klinck
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They may well be. The Japanese take better care of animals like this than Americans do. They say "It must be done" and just do it, Americans say "It must be done don't look at ME!" and don't. I'm curious--did you see any kittens? I didn't, and I was looking.

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Cat
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Japan gets freezing cold during winters. While the cats and photos are adorable, it breaks my heart to think they have to survive harsh elements

Karen Klinck
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm pretty sure the owners or workers where they are have provided shelter for them. They are well fed,and they SIT on the photographer. Think of them as urban barn cats--very well taken care of barn cats. I assume they provide the same services as a good barn cat--vermin control.

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Oerff On Tour
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Title should read: "Japanese photographer captures stay cats being cats!"

Slune
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The best is the picture with the four cats sitting on his back like on a couch. What a trust.

RaroaRaroa
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Adorable. I bet it's toasty warm down inside that concrete on a sunny day.

Caroline Murphy
Community Member
5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've only been abroad once and that was with my Portugese friend and her family (to Portugal if you didn't guess) and I was shocked at the amount of stray animals. Being from the UK I'm not used to seeing them. In the apartment complex where we stayed, there were about 6/7 stray cats and this very nice little old lady down the road fed them and made sure they always had fresh water. We also went to a fair and I saw dozens of stray dogs and people ignored them. I wanted to take them all home with me!

loobylou
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Beautiful cats ... wonderful photos ... thanks for sharing xxx

Trisha Clarke
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These cats seem too well fed to be feral.....but they also seem happy and love giving the photographer a sign of what they think of humans........{backsides and tails up in the air..oh yeah also the occasional tongue out} love them!!!!!!!!

Kelly Hayes Taylor
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great photo’s! Wish there was a way to have them all spayed/neutered!

Agnes Jekyll
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Adorable! The title is a combination of two expressions: 1) not having a care in the world 2) Not giving a damn

Carol Dunagan
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

too well fed to be strays...or the most healthy strays I've ever seen!!

I dunno lmao
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wonder how they got the cats into the hole .w. like did they put treats or something into the hole ?

Karen Klinck
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These animals are well fed,and obviously cared for.The Japanese have picked up on our TNVR programs, and I think this might be one of those colonies

Sora Lyra
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These cat doesn't look like stray cat. Seems like the people take a good care of them, even they didn't own any of these cats. Unlike in my country, people always hurt, kill and disgusted with stray cats and dogs. They thought it was fun to torture them.

Janine Randall
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They seem like a troupe of comedy cats! I would spend my days watching them too!

Porto DaMartinica
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the chubby one wearing gray and black stripes is in charge as Chairman of the Drain

Magpie
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok the cat in the fifth photo might need Vet attention for URTI. Hard to tell from here. Maybe just needs a really good wash.

DotC
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So cute! So many tongues sticking out! I want to help him trap and fix them, though.

Timothy Mark Wetherill
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Super article about the feline persuasion...is there any wonder why we are captivated?

electricblue
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah hi, can I adopt all of them? They are just so stinkin' cute!

rick hctep (Rick45)
Community Member
5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My wife and I are just looking around for two female moggies from the same litter , after lossing our old boy to a stroke after 16 1/2 years together, the house feels empty without moggies in it.

Vic
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stray or not.. cats don't give a damn about the world..

Tahani
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Beautiful pictures, but as a cat owner I can see that the little grey one has a very clogged up nose with mucus, he/she really needs to get medications as it might indicate a very contagious disease (in dutch called katteniesziekte, but I don't know how to translate it properly)

Sheila Weila
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I want to take that one tabby to the vet to check out his runny nose.

Azure Adams
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

While this is adorable AF, this cat colony needs a TNSR program badly and a regular human care watcher. More and more kitties will be born and suffer some dire consequences with inbreeding, disease passing, and other s**t without a TNSR program. If I lived in Japan, I would totally do it

John Louis
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is it just me, or do this pictures portray these cats as a WACK - A - Mole Game. Besides stray cats playing in the streets are likely to be run over and aren't they a health hazard in some respects. SPAY and NEUTER your pets.

TJler
Community Member
5 years ago

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I always knew they were stupid but I didn't know they were clumsy and on the spectrum. Gross

FortnitePlayerGirl
Community Member
5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These are very cute and touching, and it makes me wish that every cat could have a home.

Dan Pedersen
Community Member
5 years ago

I love these shots to the moon and back, I really got my dosage of cuteness for today <3

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glowworm2
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The cats poking out the holes are adorable. These made me smile!

diane a
Community Member
5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Awww sweet cats - all look pretty healthy too. Nice that someone is looking out for them. I do worry about the hole sizes though - what does a heavily pregnant cat do? Also I wonder how many dead cats are down there, sick and injured animals will always take shelter.

Johnny
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those concrete tiles with the holes the cats go in are removable. Neighbors will remove them periodically and clean out those drainage ditches. So if a cat does get stuck, it's a simple matter of removing the cover. In some places those covered drainage ditches are open, so the cat can also just walk out to the next open space.

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Milena
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is so much emotion in these photos! I loved them! Thank you for sharing!

Josefin Sigfalk
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so beautiful! They look so cheeky. I wanna be friends with all of them now :D

Reilly Beryll
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love them so much!!! Please take the best care you can!!! Hopefully this will inspire people in the area to help those kitter-puffs. I love their little bleps!

Nikki D
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love the one where he is giving it water, so sweet and trusting. They don't seem to be the least bit feral.

madapult
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They are so cute! Hope someone nice adopts them! Actually- he should adopt them and bring them out to play!!!

Kenny Kulbiski
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I was walking by and a cat popped out of a hole in the sidewalk it would probably take surgery to get the smile of my face.

Lexie G
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wish I could upvote so much more. I'm so glad that these cats have somebody that's feeding them and that they are happy and playing. I just love these pics. As a cat owner I'm so happy that they are taken care of.

nvee
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh so beautiful... when we were in Turkey... the cats were the same ... love em ... thank you ... brings so many smiles

SirPatTheCat
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like the one that kept sitting in the hole and poking his head out. :D

spirit wolf
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dear God please let me be a cat in my next many lives. Thank you!

Freya the Wanderer
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cats are amazing! They can turn any place into a feline playground. Those cats look as though they are well-fed, so people in the neighborhood probably feed them - though they should be fixed.

Karen Klinck
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They may well be. The Japanese take better care of animals like this than Americans do. They say "It must be done" and just do it, Americans say "It must be done don't look at ME!" and don't. I'm curious--did you see any kittens? I didn't, and I was looking.

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Cat
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Japan gets freezing cold during winters. While the cats and photos are adorable, it breaks my heart to think they have to survive harsh elements

Karen Klinck
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm pretty sure the owners or workers where they are have provided shelter for them. They are well fed,and they SIT on the photographer. Think of them as urban barn cats--very well taken care of barn cats. I assume they provide the same services as a good barn cat--vermin control.

Load More Replies...
Oerff On Tour
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Title should read: "Japanese photographer captures stay cats being cats!"

Slune
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The best is the picture with the four cats sitting on his back like on a couch. What a trust.

RaroaRaroa
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Adorable. I bet it's toasty warm down inside that concrete on a sunny day.

Caroline Murphy
Community Member
5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've only been abroad once and that was with my Portugese friend and her family (to Portugal if you didn't guess) and I was shocked at the amount of stray animals. Being from the UK I'm not used to seeing them. In the apartment complex where we stayed, there were about 6/7 stray cats and this very nice little old lady down the road fed them and made sure they always had fresh water. We also went to a fair and I saw dozens of stray dogs and people ignored them. I wanted to take them all home with me!

loobylou
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Beautiful cats ... wonderful photos ... thanks for sharing xxx

Trisha Clarke
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These cats seem too well fed to be feral.....but they also seem happy and love giving the photographer a sign of what they think of humans........{backsides and tails up in the air..oh yeah also the occasional tongue out} love them!!!!!!!!

Kelly Hayes Taylor
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Great photo’s! Wish there was a way to have them all spayed/neutered!

Agnes Jekyll
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Adorable! The title is a combination of two expressions: 1) not having a care in the world 2) Not giving a damn

Carol Dunagan
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

too well fed to be strays...or the most healthy strays I've ever seen!!

I dunno lmao
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wonder how they got the cats into the hole .w. like did they put treats or something into the hole ?

Karen Klinck
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These animals are well fed,and obviously cared for.The Japanese have picked up on our TNVR programs, and I think this might be one of those colonies

Sora Lyra
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

These cat doesn't look like stray cat. Seems like the people take a good care of them, even they didn't own any of these cats. Unlike in my country, people always hurt, kill and disgusted with stray cats and dogs. They thought it was fun to torture them.

Janine Randall
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They seem like a troupe of comedy cats! I would spend my days watching them too!

Porto DaMartinica
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the chubby one wearing gray and black stripes is in charge as Chairman of the Drain

Magpie
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok the cat in the fifth photo might need Vet attention for URTI. Hard to tell from here. Maybe just needs a really good wash.

DotC
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So cute! So many tongues sticking out! I want to help him trap and fix them, though.

Timothy Mark Wetherill
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Super article about the feline persuasion...is there any wonder why we are captivated?

electricblue
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah hi, can I adopt all of them? They are just so stinkin' cute!

rick hctep (Rick45)
Community Member
5 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My wife and I are just looking around for two female moggies from the same litter , after lossing our old boy to a stroke after 16 1/2 years together, the house feels empty without moggies in it.

Vic
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stray or not.. cats don't give a damn about the world..

Tahani
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Beautiful pictures, but as a cat owner I can see that the little grey one has a very clogged up nose with mucus, he/she really needs to get medications as it might indicate a very contagious disease (in dutch called katteniesziekte, but I don't know how to translate it properly)

Sheila Weila
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I want to take that one tabby to the vet to check out his runny nose.

Azure Adams
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

While this is adorable AF, this cat colony needs a TNSR program badly and a regular human care watcher. More and more kitties will be born and suffer some dire consequences with inbreeding, disease passing, and other s**t without a TNSR program. If I lived in Japan, I would totally do it

John Louis
Community Member
5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is it just me, or do this pictures portray these cats as a WACK - A - Mole Game. Besides stray cats playing in the streets are likely to be run over and aren't they a health hazard in some respects. SPAY and NEUTER your pets.

TJler
Community Member
5 years ago

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

I always knew they were stupid but I didn't know they were clumsy and on the spectrum. Gross

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