The city of Kuching, in the state of Sarawak in Malaysia, is full of cats.
There are cats on the sidewalk, at traffic signals, in parks, inside roundabouts and on rooftops.
The obsession stems from the citys name.
The stream has since been filled in and built over.
The Brooke family ruled Sarawak until the Japanese occupation in December 1941.
The guide thinking that James Brooke was pointing towards a cat, said “Kuching”.
Cat motifs can be found all around the city.
There is a story that once in the 1950s, people in Borneo were dying of malaria.
The consequence of this was the rat population flourished and they brought in plague.
