Amsterdam Is Installing Tiny Staircases for Cats, and It Is the Cutest Thing Ever – AOL.com

Amsterdam’s canals are a UNESCO World Heritage Site, but they come with a real safety problem that keeps resurfacing in a particularly awful way. In the last six months, 19 cats drowned in the city’s canals, according to Dierenambulance Amsterdam, and six of those deaths happened in the city center. Cats can swim, but that doesn’t make canals safe.

Maggie Ruitenberg of the Feline Information Center, Katten Kenniscentrum, has explained that cats tire quickly in water because their fur becomes heavy once it’s soaked. In other words, the danger is less about the first splash and more about what happens when the animal can’t find an exit point. City officials have now approved up to €100,000 to tackle the issue, and the plan hinges on a simple idea that sounds almost too small to matter until you hear why it does.

Momentum built through the Party for the Animals (PvdD), and on July 10, 2025, the Amsterdam City Council made it official. Members approved a motion to install wildlife exit points along canals in the city center, moving the idea from discussion to action.

The funding question, which had stalled things before, turned out to have a simple answer. The proposal identified an unused €100,000 set aside for biodiversity planning. That discovery removed the biggest obstacle and gave the plan a practical path forward.

The city’s councillor for animal welfare, Zita Pels, had already backed the idea but had been clear that there was no budget to support it. Once the money was accounted for, the council vote transformed general support into a concrete mandate to move ahead.

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