The neighbor of Mali [kagemusha] was complaining about a mouse or was it a rat ? He had a sweet Golden Retriever at home, not that best fit to chase mice.
Indeed, while I was strolling around here in Üsküdar, looking for a small Mosque Çinili Cami, with blue ceramic tiles that I saw many years back, I passed the Mosque just in front of Mali's apartment, a real playground for many, many cats, fed by locals to maintain a balance in the population of mice and rats in the city. They are simply part of the city-scape in Istanbul, walking around here while the man was washing his feet before entering the Mosque.
In Capadocia you see a lot more dogs running freely around ... but Istanbul is Cat !