**Oman’s “Common Sense” Law Sparks Fury: Tourists Banned for Feeding Stray Cats in Mutrah**
BY: Karen T. – Seeb Resident
📢 **BREAKING – MUTRAH CORNICHE:** I am absolutely fuming, and I know every one of you with a shred of common sense will be too. I just watched a family of tourists get escorted off the Mutrah Corniche by the ROP—not for vandalism, not for stealing, but for *feeding the stray cats*.
Let me spell this out for the bureaucrats in Muscat: You have wild dogs roaming Al Khuwair that could knock over a camel, you have rubbish piling up next to the new mosque in Ghubra because nobody empties the bins, and yet the *one* thing the municipality decides to enforce with military precision is stopping a grandmother from tossing a few sardines to a starving kitten?
Common sense is DEAD. My grandmother fed the strays outside her house in Barka for 40 years; she raised those cats like they were her own children. Now we’re handing out fines of 50 OMR to people showing basic humanity while the real problems—potholes that swallow tires, flash flooding that leaves expats stranded in Wadi Dayqah—get ignored.
And to the authority lurkers in this group: If you want to "improve the aesthetic of the city," fix the half-finished construction sites in Al Hail that look like war zones. Leave the cats and the kind-hearted locals alone.
**#CommonSenseForOman #LetThemEatSardines**