Giant feline serves purrfect potato in Japan

You've cat to be kidding me!

On a cold Friday in Kurayoshi City, you could see a giant cat selling sweet potatoes from a yellow truck.

This is Mikeneko Yamada, known as the cat vendor, who has spent six years finding the right sweet potato for his purrfect Yaki-imo (Japanese for roasted sweet potato).

"In Yonago city in Tottori, now, I found one place which is producing very tasty one," said Yamada dressed in his fury cat mascot custom.

The cat vendor mastered the art of Ishiyaki, roasting sweet potatoes in hot stones, and has been selling it out of the yaki-imo truck.

Many locals have become regulars and come back time and again for the almost cake-like roasted potatoes.

More than a month after the Tai Po fire, a surviving pet cat was still found on January 1st. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) stated on its social media that the society has been granted permission to place a few cat cages and cameras at Wang Yan House of Wang Fuk Court by Christmas. They were surprised to find that a cat stepped into the cage on Christmas Day. The staff of SPCA sent the cat for examination and found it was in good health with no major problems. As for now, its owners have taken it back home.

SPCA described it as a miracle, which has enhanced their determination to save other possibly surviving pets in Wang Fuk Court. The society said that the police have approved the placement of cat cages in the remaining five buildings of Wang Fuk Court next week, hoping to continue the search for the still-missing pet cats. SPCA previously stated that more than 500 animals were found in the fire, with over 300 surviving, while dozens of pets still couldn't be found yet.