I just heard a piece

on the radio about the fact that there are dozens of stray cats on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and that they’ve put up a special cat house on the hill that they can live in. I’d always heard that it was a longer story than the site says though – that they released hundreds of cats in the 1870s to combat a huge rodent problem, and that the result was a huge population of feral cats in all the parks around, including down the cliffs behind the Center Block. Either way, it’s kind of odd.