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The internet just gave a Japanese island where cats outnumber humans more cat food than it knows what to do with

by Tony Manfred and Kristen Griffin on Feb 29, 2016, 5:11 PM

Aoshima is a tiny island in Japan's Ehime prefecture where cats outnumber people eight-to-one. The so-called cat island is a tourist destination in the summer, but in the dead of winter the number of visitors dwindles.

On February 20th, a Twitter account associated with the island sent a tweet saying the island's 16 residents were having trouble keeping all the cats fed, and that they needed food donations. The message was retweeted 17,000 times, and only four days later another tweet asked the world to kindly stop sending them cat food because they were out of places to put it all.

Story by Tony Manfred and editing by Kristen Griffin. Video courtesy of fipizzaona on YouTube.

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