One Twitter user -- @Tsimchik -- told Sberbank: "Reduce your interest rates and people will have enough money to run a cat farm!"
A Facebook user from Iceland was keen on the concept, but not the cats. "I would take out a second mortgage if the bank gave me a monkey," he said.
The Russian mortgage market has been expanding by more than 30% per year since 2009, according to statistics from the Russian central bank.
Mortgage lending in rubles has grown by 41% in the first seven months of 2014 compared to the same period in 2013.
--CNN's Olga Pavlova in Moscow contributed to this report. http://money.cnn.com/Linkback:
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