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Inside Jordan’s first hotel for cats

A Jordanian couple who have been rescuing stray cats for years opened the first five-star hotel in Amman offering cat-friendly services.
This photo shows some of the "hotel rooms" of the cats at the Mau Hotel, Amman, Jordan, Oct. 10, 2021.

AMMAN, Jordan — From a dying cat next to a garbage dump in the streets of the Jordanian capital Amman to a cat living a luxurious, healthy life, Fattosha, with its fur clean and neat, sits on a comfortable pillow, after having devoured a copious meal that its rescuer had prepared. 

Fattosha was one of 28 cats that Uday and Heba Abu Hadid rescued from homelessness and took in. 

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