These Two Jerk Cats Live In Their Own Studio Apartment And You Still Have To Live In A Mouldy Sharehouse

There are three types of people: dog people, cat people, and people who don’t care because they’re too mad about housing affordability.

Two-thirds of you are going to be really irritated by this story.

Meet Tina and Louise: two adult cats who live in a studio apartment. By themselves.

Yes, while you’re sharing a mildew-prone terrace with three other idiots whose parents never showed them how to clean food scraps out of the kitchen sink and pressing your nose against the windows of boujee cafés where smug homeowners are doing lines of smashed avocado, these two flush felines are living in the lap of luxury.

They can’t live with their human, Victoria Amith, in her student housing, and they apparently don’t get on with her dad’s partner’s dogs.

So they share a US$375-a-week Silicon Valley studio owned by his friend. Amith’s dad swings by every day to feed Tina and Louise, and Amith herself visits where she can. When she gets her own place in a few months, they’ll come live with her.

Presumably it’s cheaper than a kennel or pet hotel, but it feels absurd both because of the homelessness problem in the area and the fact that it’s cats with their own apartment. 

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THE HUNT: Silicon Valley on a Cat's Salary

Bay Area cats Tina and Louise hope to find an affordable studio in San Jose, but have no income or savings — limiting their budget to just $1,500/monthhttps://t.co/ipTWB0HvkH

— Peter Sterne (@petersterne) January 14, 2019

Not even Taylor Swift’s cats have their own apartment. (Paris Hilton’s dogs have an air-conditioned mansion, but that’s not exactly taking a human-sized rental out of the market.)

“Basically I’ve got two renters that don’t have opposable thumbs,” the apartment’s owner told one outlet.

“It’s actually great. They’re very quiet, obviously. The only problem is they stink up the place.”

There you are, investor-landlords of Australia: if you rent to spoiled kitties instead of actual humans, you’ll never receive a noise complaint or be asked to actually fix a tap.

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