19: Pet the Cat (Natural Wonders)

[plucky kiln]

Hello, cat.
In what town does the cat reside?

[visual thicket]

If you need a hint let me know 😊 please also tell me how to do the hidden text.

[plucky kiln]

|| before and after text makes it a spoiler 🙂

[visual thicket]

|| thanks 556 ||

[steel sentinel]

Trop facile aussi

[wintry widget]

another fun one, ||love the catto, and hint theres a smol distinctive sign on a wall in the photo||

[last kayak]

Did anyone else try || Ankara || first before doing any actual research? 😂

[wintry widget]

YES and ||Istanbul haha, Turkey loves it's cats||

[last kayak]

Exactly haha.

[worn lichen]

btw there seems to be a mistake in the puzzle author's URL

should be https://www.bellingcat.com/author/michaelccolborne/
not https://www.bellingcat.com/author/michaelcolborne/

[lofty grotto]

Oops 😬

[last kayak]

I figured it was to deter us from using the author's info to locate the picture 😂

[opaque totem]

|| Cat🥹||

[echo oak]

||Complete - I used Google Lens to reverse image search the house in the background. It found a house on Shutterstock that looked very similar. The shutterstock listing references a town name, which I used to guess and it was correct||

[carmine otter]

Instantly I knew this has to be either || Croatia or Italy, don't know Italy so much, but I know some cities bear similar architectural characteristics, due to the fact that in the past they were reigned and built by Venetians. I was wrong because I forgot to include Montenegro in my search, that also shares some of the history. Now Kotor is on my bucket list even higher. Cats are very common in Croatia, Cyprus and Greece, but the latter 2 have different type of architecture. This one was not that easy, but very satisfying. ||

[novel holly]

Did exactly the same. Then confirmed by looking for other photos and zooming in. A really quick one!

[topaz aurora]

You made me realize I was using || Google Lens wrong. I had been cropping out the cat, but it seems it helps! ||

[plucky kiln]

19: Pet the Cat (Natural Wonders)

[tribal vale]

I've been here and immediately guessed where it was ||because they have SO many cats there|| ! I did also do a Google image search to confirm before just wildly guessing, and found the building on a walking tour website.

[timid prawn]

||The time zone being GMT-7 threw me off for so long lmaoooo||

[frank forge]

Hello! I've created a writeup detailing how I solved the challenge. You can read it here if you'd like: https://medium.com/@dam_coffee/bellingcat-challenge-pet-the-cat-2844a4b0f884.

[steel dune]

Hi all, if I can ask a complete noob question, I'm trying to do these puzzles but I don't see any photo. Attached is the screen I see

[chrome glacier]

hey there! you'll find the images at https://challenge.bellingcat.com/

[steel dune]

Thank you!

[chrome glacier]

you're welcome 🙂 we just have discussion here - so you're in the right place for that!

[glacial parcel]

I would totally pet this cat. But so far it hasn’t told me where it lives yet… 🥴