Amsterdam councillors have voted to spend up to €100,000 installing special steps along city centre canals in an effort to save cats and another animals which fall in the water, the Parool reported this week. So far this year, 19 cats are known to have drowned in the city’s canals because they are unable to climb out, a statistic which prompted the local pro-animal party PvdD to propose the plan. In June Amersfoort announced it was installing 300 flights of...