Un coup de gueule et des larmes de rage !
Sujet : Chat kikoz|
Comme vous le savez tous maintenant, Le Chat Qui… et toute la c@t family a déménagé il y a un peu plus d’un mois en Turquie. Au début d’une expat, on est toujours sur un petit nuage, tout est nouveau, tout est beau… et puis au fur et à mesure, on voit aussi les défauts de son pays d’accueil…
Aujourd’hui, c’est un coup de gueule et de griffe monumental que Kikoz a envie de passer. Les amoureux des animaux qui fréquentent ces pages en seront sans doute retournés autant que Le Chat Qui… mais c’est aussi pour cela que Kikoz a envie d’en parler.
La Turquie, c’est un pays très chouette, mais pas pour les animaux, ceux des rues, chiens et chats, trop nombreux, abandonnés, maltraités, tués, lapidés etc etc…
Voici donc ci-dessous, une copie d’un courrier que l’auteur du chat qui a adressé ce matin au Customers Service de Starbucks Coffee International (désolée, c’est en anglais mais beaucoup d’entre vous le lisent. Néanmoins, n’hésitez pas à m’envoyer une demande de traduction si vous ne lisez pas l’anglais, Kikoz se fera un plaisir de vous en envoyer une copie par mail en français) :
« Hello,
I’m a 35 years old French woman but right now my husband and I are living in Turkey for job’s purpose. We ‘ve also been living for three years in Sweden and visited United States and several others countries where we never missed any opportunities to stop by one of your coffee shop.
What we appreciate above all in Starbucks Coffee, apart from the quality of the beverages, is the respect that your company seems to grant environment and living creatures. It always seemed to me that human being as well as animal being were matters of great importance within Starbucks policy.
Therefore I would like to relate you a story that happened in one of your shop. It’s a very sad story and unfortunately my husband and I were part of the scene. It takes place in Turkey, more exactly on the terrace of one of your shop in Ulusöy Outlet Park.

All this happened last tuesday, the 30th of September as we were driving through Turkey for a few days out. We had decided to stop after having seen a> huge Starbucks sign on the road, promess of a great Cafe Latte, and we were really looking forward to it. While we were drinking our lovely coffees on the terrace of your shop came a lonely and adorable kitten. I have to say that the poor thing was in bad shape as part of his tail seemed to have been cut off (probably by a car) and was covered with dry blood. But anyway he seemed to manage and recover and was just there asking for a little bit of love…and food of course. Unfortunately, it seems that in Turkey, many (thousands of) animals (that should be pets like cats and dogs) are just left apart and abandoned without anyone to take care of them.
But back to the poor kitten, this one was approximatively 3 months old and was very friendly, purring next to you and asking to be patted and cuddled. Some other customers took pictures of him as he was so cute.
Then came a man with a talkie walkie who seemed to be working for the security of the outlet park. Seeing the cat licking some cream that I had given him from my own coffee, he smiled at us then called the cat gently. This one responded straight away by running towards the guy who immediately grabbed him by the head with violence and transported the cutie kitty for a 100 meters to eventually throw him spitefully in a trolley bin, smashing the cover on its little head just like it was craps.
All this happened within a few seconds and I was so shocked that I dropped my coffee to run after the guy (and the cat) shouting at him that he couldn’t just do that to a living animal. He then called another security man who was speaking English and who started to explain to me that the cat was « ill » and that they were just removing him from the place to somewhere else. By « somewhere else », he was pointing a place behind the Food Hall where they put all the trash compactors and it was obvious by the look of the two lads that they were up to no good with this poor little thing.
I felt terribly down as they wouldn’t let me deliver again the cutie kitten from the trolley bin where they had placed him for the second time. Then a worker came to remove the bin towards the back of the outlet park…
I have to admit that both my husband and I had been very shocked and that I was so upset that I cried all along the way to out final destination. We even regretted not having taken the poor thing with us to release him a few miles away in the next village…
All this happened on the terrace of one of your coffee shop and I assume you would be interested in knowing that. I consider that everything happening in your coffee shops is of Starbucks responsibility even though none of your staff members was involved in this story. As it seems that your company is so involved in environment, saving and protecting the planet, it is of great importance that you follow the same guideline with animals which are, to me, as important as human for the balance of this planet.
Therefore I beg you to make an inquiry on this case.
I swear that even though I like your products and was really happy (so far) with your policy, this story kind of « froze » me and I can’t seem to meet a Starbucks coffee without remembering of what happened to this poor cat which has for consequences for me to avoid the places.
Of course, you are not responsible for the way animals are treated in Turkey but I think you should take a sort of « chart » which would include that no animal can be mistreated in your places, especially in countries like Turkey where animals have no right at all.
Thank you for telling me what you want to do about this issue.
Waiting for your reply
Yours sincerely
PS : enclosed a picture of this poor kitten and another one of the place where it happened »
Bien entendu, il est fort probable que ce mail ne touche personne chez Starbucks ou bien qu’ils s’en dédouanent complètement ou pire, qu’ils n’y répondent pas ou encore ne le lisent même pas. Néanmoins, il n’était pas possible au Chat Qui.. de rester sans rien faire. Un coup d’épée dans l’eau ? Peut-être…. Kikoz se bat contre des moulins à vent ? C’est presque certain ! Mais qui ne tente rien n’a rien…. !!!
Si réponse il y avait, Kikoz vous en ferait évidemment une copie ici-même ! Tous à vos commentaires et remarques, merci !
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