Time for something a little bit odd… Isla, one of our longer serving STA Explorers (and former EYSer), has been experiencing all that Moscow has to offer, however it turned out she had missed something - The Yuri Kuklachev Cat Theatre.

The Yuri Kuklachev Cat Theatre is literally as mad as a bag of cats. Yuri rescues cats from the street and then watches and learns their natural talents before training them and building an act around what the cat in question enjoys doing.

The Moscow.Info site describes the theatre as,

“A family-run operation, the Cat Theatre has a company of over 120 cats (and four canines) who perform alongside human mimes in a variety of shows including The Nutcracker and Cats From Outer Space.”

What could be better?! Despite admitting to laughing out loud, Isla sums up the visit to the theatre by stating she still believes dogs are better than cats. I’ll sign off with this YouTube video of the cats and Yuri in action – thoughts welcome…

I promise no cats were hurt in the writing of this post.

NB: There is a website for Yuri’s Cat Theatre, but it was doing strange things to my browser so decided not to include a link. Discover it at your own peril…