Russia: Bank offers 'free cat with every mortgage'

[Crewleader]

By News from Elsewhere... ...media reports from around the world, found by BBC Monitoring

27 August 2014



Russia's largest bank is apparently loaning cats to clients who buy one of their mortgage products - as a sign of good luck.

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-28951981

[shenmue]

1. Moar kittehs! Moar!

This is totally the answer to everything!

[Crewleader]

2. You said it my friend!

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[femmocrat]

3. A cat makes a house a "home"!

[Crewleader]

4. No truer words have been spoken my friend

[Louisiana1976]

5. Now if I were in Russia and if I were in the market for a mortgage I'd go to that bank. I love cats

[Crewleader]

6. Hi Louisiana1976, very nice to meet you!

[Louisiana1976]

27. Hi Crewleader! Very nice to meet you, too!

[niyad]

7. this bank obviously has fans of mark twain, who said

Mark Twain
“A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

mark twain and his cats:

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[Crewleader]

8. Thank You niyad, love him and his cats!

And a few of his other quotes:



"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way."

"The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives."



Very nice meeting you!

[niyad]

9. nice meeting you as well. and, of course--awwwwwwww for the kitteh!!

[BrotherIvan]

10. That did my heart good

Smart people love cats. Newton invented the cat flap. Napoleon, Hitler and Mussolini were terrified of cats. Nuff said.

[Crewleader]

16. Nice meeting you BrotherIvan

Smart people love Cats, I totally agree!

[BrotherIvan]

18. You too!

[niyad]

19. awww--a hallowe'en kitteh!!

[Crewleader]

20. You know it's just around the corner~Fall!

[niyad]

21. I am hoping that we actually HAVE a fall this year (because we did not have a spring)

thank you for these wonderful kitteh pics--lots of smiles!!

[Crewleader]

22. Happy Fall To You niyad, hope you have a good one! :)

[jakeXT]

11. Michael Moore gets gun in a bank

[Crewleader]

13. I remember that jakeXT

anything on cats my friend. Here's one for You!

[jakeXT]

15. bag of cats

[Crewleader]

17. Thank You jakeXT

Love it my friend!

[SheilaT]

12. When we bought our house in Boulder it came with a cat.

Great cat. She was about ten years old and lived with us another seven years.

[Crewleader]

14. Very nice Sheila T

You had the good luck to have a cat and a home, and several more years to enjoy the cat, I love it!

[SheilaT]

23. I am currently without a cat, which suits

me at the moment as I'm doing lots of travelling, but someday I am going to be a crazy cat lady.

I'll get one of those Crazy Cat Lady Starter Kits. It will be wonderful.

[Crewleader]

24. Good for you Sheila T, traveling and seeing the sights!

You enjoy lady, I hope to do that sometime in the future and I know there will be some lucky cat to have YOU!

[jmowreader]

25. It's kind of a ripoff program

Russian superstition says good luck comes to a house if the first thing across the threshold when you move in is a cat. So...this bank is LOANING you a cat for two hours only so it can fulfill the need for luck.

Got news for Sberbank: if a cat walks into MY house, y'all don't get it back.

[Crewleader]

26. A true cat lover indeed

Nice to meet YOU jmowreader.