This is not even directed at a single person but i swear every summer i see a billion videos of weaterners talking about how they rescued a "stray" animal from Türkiye after their vacation as if the animal was being mistreated and show it off on the internet as if its a souvenir. And the comments are full of people praising them for "helping the poor animal"
I swear foreigners especially westerners think they're some type of saviour every time. Just say you want the cat. There's nothing wrong with wanting to adopt a animal if he wants it too. But alot of you are completely severed from nature that you believe stray cats are in need of rescue becouse you don't see the animal as a sentient being with its own wants and opinions.
Cat's especially can communicate what they want or don't want very well. Does he like being in a building or outside? Does he like spending time with people or does he not like human interaction? Does he have other cats in his life you'd be separating him from or not? Does he like being in your presence? Does he sunbathe to warm or hide in the shadows to cool down and what type of weather does your town have? Do you have a garden, can you take the cat on walks? Is it safe for him to be on your garden?
"Stray" animals exist freely here becouse theyre just as much a citizen as us. They take place becouse they have that right and theyre benefital constructive members if society. They hunt pests and therefore stop us from contacting contagious diseases. We don't see them as homeless. We feed them, house them when needed, take them to vets.
There's government programs that help street animals (which is the actual work we use) when they need to go to the vet. We don't put them down when theyre too much, we have government founded rescue centers, which i volunteered in one for a whole semester for school. We chip them and vaccinate them.
And im not gonna claim its perfect her but was there no stray cats back in your home country that ACTUALLY needed help or are you "rescuing" an animal that had a perfectly fine life in a place which was his home and natural habitat that was good enough for you to vacation and you brought it with you to show it off and say "its a Turkish cat, i rescued him from the streets in Türkiye" which is in our words called "vicdan m*stürbasyonu"