Street News Service - Photo Story (Feed 191)

Homeless cats and men can make a living

KYOTO, Japan: Under the famous bridge in Kyoto, five men make their home, their living and their life. They keep goldfish as pets and look after families of stray cats. Most of the cats and kittens are sick, so every day the men take them up to the street and show them to the public, to raise money to take them to a vet. Sometimes they make a lot of money. The men themselves are homeless - they have lost their homes and families because they lost their job, they got into debt, or because they couldn't deal with the tough Japanese rat-race.

Story and pictures by Frank Dries, Straatnieuws, the Netherlands, © Street News Service: www.street-papers.org. [Pictures are available in high resolution, please email sns@street-papers.org]