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Singapore has decided to lift a 30-year ban on owning cats in government housing, in which about 80% of the 3.6 million inhabitants live.
Singapore’s a beautiful, friendly, ordered place—a vision of a classless, harmonious, market-based society. But the government has gone to extreme lengths to establish and preserve this, and outrightly made illegal many normal things like chewing gum and cats.
Dogs, however, were not banned when the government housing program began more than 30 years ago, and many citizens now feel that a not-so-small modicum of justice has been served to the pet-owning community.
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Singapore’s a beautiful, friendly, ordered place—a vision of a classless, harmonious, market-based society. But the government has gone to extreme lengths to establish and preserve this, and outrightly made illegal many normal things like chewing gum and cats.
Dogs, however, were not banned when the government housing program began more than 30 years ago, and many citizens now feel that a not-so-small modicum of justice has been served to the pet-owning community.
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Singapore’s 30 Year Ban on Cats in Government Housing is Lifted, Providing Millions of Felines with Citizenship
The Times speculates that it was a recent survey among government housing occupants in which 9 out of 10 said cats make good indoor pets.
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