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The University of Hawaii Manoa is infested with feral cats, just like the rest of Hawaii. I find cats to be a nice decorative element. To me, cats on the premises says: Somebody lives here. When I walk around Chinatown and see a random cat stuck on a roof, I go "Oh, how nice! People live here! These aren't really stores, they're all secretly homes, and people live in them!" When I walk around UH (which is properly pronounced "Uhhhh...", if I may remind you) and see random cats, I go "Ah, cats! This is not truly a university! It's just a big house where people live! I like it here."
A friend who's visiting from school in Vancouver, B.C. told me about the infestations at the schools in Canada. The University of British Columbia is infested with squirrels. Some of them are alright, but the black ones look a lot like rats.
The University of Victoria, UVic, is infested with bunnies.
It's the cutest infestation ever, I am told.
Except that they have to kill large numbers of the bunnies at random every year, to keep the inbreeding down. Otherwise, the infestation starts looking kind of weird. When a guy from UVic who was also at the hostel on 'reading break' (the Canadian Spring Break) told me this, I imagined two-heads mutant monster rabbits hopping to and fro around campus, and I had to sit down, because I was laughing so hard there was no spare energy in my body to keep my leg muscles operating. Turns out they just start looking kind of mangy, their coats get pretty ugly. Ah well.