{"id":3298,"date":"2019-06-28T19:32:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T00:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2020-01-01T20:20:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T01:20:34","slug":"huge-new-siamtown-cat-enclave-in-los-angeles-opens-up-east-of-chinatown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/28\/huge-new-siamtown-cat-enclave-in-los-angeles-opens-up-east-of-chinatown\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge New Siamtown Cat Enclave In Los Angeles Opens Up East Of Chinatown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA&#8211; Over the last few decades, there has been a large influx of Siamese cats entering into the United States. Many of these <a href=\"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/tag\/cat\/\">cats<\/a> originally integrated into areas that had very few Siamese residents, such as Chinatown in both Los Angeles and New York.<\/p>\n<p>Every year the numbers of Siamese cats continues to grow, and with more smaller Siamese-only communities popping up, some experts predict that by 2032 they may eventually outnumber or at least rival Chinese cats in total.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">See Also:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/12\/a-large-reward-offered-after-4-bird-shootings-in-oakwood\/\">A Large Reward After 4 Bird Shootings In Oakwood<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>LA&#8217;s new Siamtown is now home to approximately 1.5 million Siamese cats, with a small percentage of Persian, Bengal, Burmese, Japanese Bobtails, and other Oriental mixes living within the area as well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3300\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3300\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload size-full wp-image-3300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D&#039;http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg&#039; viewBox%3D&#039;0 0 640 360&#039;%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/SquirrelLipsSiamTown2-min.png\" alt=\"Dozens of anthropomorphic Siamese cats walking around Chinatown.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With the large number of Siamese cats in the United States, Siamtown may eventually rival Chinatown in size and popularity.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The whole area spans over 3 miles, and is divided into various sections, including countless Siamese cat food restaurants and markets, numerous catnip bars, a Siamese-themed mall with movies, litter box restrooms, thousands of scratching posts, play areas for kittens, and many windows with perches for tired felines to take naps.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Related:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/24\/most-cats-only-have-seven-lives-according-to-new-study\/\">Most Cats Only Have Seven Lives\u00a0According To New Study<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This large area of Siamtown grew quickly and has been expanding within the last 2 years and is sure to be a hot destination for animals of all kinds.<\/p>\n<p>Siamtown&#8217;s growth is only expected to get bigger and the <em>LA Times<\/em> is calling Siamtown the &#8220;new friskier version of Chinatown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA&#8211; Over the last few decades, there has been a large influx of Siamese cats entering into the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[90,409,411,410,395,408],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cat","tag-chinatown","tag-la-times","tag-los-angeles","tag-rated-cub","tag-siamese-cat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/squirrellips.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}