Just when you think you’re the craziest cat lady around, someone else goes ahead and one-ups you to the fullest. Russian farmer Alla Lebedeva has turned her homestead into a self-proclaimed ‘Catland,’ and has gone viral with the incredible photographs and videos she takes of her many glorious Siberian cats.
If you think you’re the craziest cat person over there, think again! because Russian farmer Alla Lebedeva just took the definition of a cat lover to a whole new level. Her house now is overly dominated with cats that she has been raising for many years. Allan loves to take pictures and videos of her furry friends, but she didn’t expected they would go quickly viral.
‘A couple of years ago I noticed that my pictures had gone viral,’ said Alla. ‘At first I spotted my photos on some website about Norwegian cats – they used my pics twice, without any credit – and now they are going around the world as ‘Norwegian cats’.’
Lebedeva, 59, and her husband Sergey live in a farm located in Prigorodny, just outside Barnaul, Siberia. Because there are gorgeous Siberian cats everywhere, the couple has no idea about the number “How many do we have now? To such a question I usually answer ‘a million, maybe more,’” Lebedeva tells DesignYouTrust. ‘They live in the henhouse, and sleep on the polati, and they have three ‘little bedrooms’ there where can they sleep according to how they feel. Our cats protect the chickens and rabbits from rats and mice.
Alla has now her own Youtube channel dedicated only to her furry friends. She documents their daily adventures in pictures and videos. The followers now reached 2,000. However, the photos have been doing rounds on social medias with Some showing these majestic cats wearing Russian hats, others have been mocked up to look like characters from the TV series Game of Thrones, and one was even used to joke about dieting.
Another photograph was commandeered by the Norwegian Forest Cats online community, with some people assuming the long-haired cats are from Norway, rather than Siberia.
‘In the summer our cats divide into two groups. Some of them go hunting somewhere and don’t come home for months, among them Ryzhik, Rych and Ludwig.
‘Pukh, Lapych and Tema stay home and don’t go far away. All the female cats are always neat and sit at home. Here we have also noticed that they have their own hierarchy. Pukh is a kind of alpha male, an emperor. His deputy is Lapych, while Tema is just very calm.’
She added: ‘They recognise me as the head of their ‘pride’, and they all obey me. Among the other family members, they have good relations with my granddaughter, Maria, and allow her to hold them. Her favourite cat is Nochka.
‘All our animals seem to live in peace and they have rather good relations with our dog Rikki, the chickens and even with the cockerels.’
Alla and Sergey have three sons: architects Dmitry, who lives in Barnaul, and Alexander, who moved to Norilsk, and Ivan, who is an artist and designer currently living in Moscow.
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