16/05/13: Amazingly Daphne was found abandoned on the streets in Almeria by a friend of the Spanish lady who runs a private rescue home. I don’t think she had been outside for long as her coat was not in very bad condition, but she is another example of the attitude to animals here. I love all cats but very Persian faces like Daphne’s are not …
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14/05/13: Lovely new, recent photo of Maya in her forever home!
25/11/12: Maya is now in Germany. She traveled on the last transport to a trial home, to be the friend of a lovely sociable tomcat, whose last friend had recently died. In the first days the news was not so good. Maya’s new friend was possibly being too attentive, even bringing her gifts of toy mice and trying to cuddle her. He was SO pleased to have a new cat to live with. Maya was fine with the other cats at Montse’s but at the beginning did not react well to this amount of love and attention. In the last week however Maya has been a little more friendly, and I am hoping things will improve more and Maya will be able to stay in this lovely cat home. Read the full story »
14/05/13: Here are 2 more lovely young cats that unfortunately got left behind when their owner had to go back to the UK for health reasons. Their owner, a lovely man, DID care about them and their friend Blackie, and gave a family free use of his house in Spain if they would look after his inside/outside cats. This family it seems were not lovely, …
14/05/13: Today the latest very good news came from Germany about our lovely boy. “Hello dear cat team. Now I manage to finally write to you. Our boy is really good. He is an absolute treasure and needs quite a lot of love and affection. The whole evening he is either on me or on master’s tummy and cuddles. Even with our Luna things just …
12/05/13: Poppy is a gorgeous little girl, now 3-4 weeks old, who I had the pleasure of bottle feeding for 10 days, after she was rescued from a garden here in Almerimar. She was one of a litter but for some reason Poppy’s mother moved her brothers and sisters and left Poppy behind all alone. The girl who brought Poppy to us waited a whole …
21:00 Latest news of Darcy is that he is very playful and relaxed in his new home. He is not touchable yet but I think he just needs a little more time to learn that people are friendly, and hopefully his tame cat friend will help him to build his confidence.
12/05/13: There were actually 3 black cats from Pechina on this weekend’s transport to Germany. …
12/05/13: Ellie IS going to need time to recover fully from her almost starvation, but I have just taken these lovely photos of her enjoying the sun. She now has bright alive eyes again, and the mucus is almost gone from her nose. Now she just needs to gain more appetite and weight. I am about to go and spend some time with her as …
12/05/13: Mercedes has arrived in her new home today. She does still have a slight cold but looks fine in this first photo.
11/05/13: Mercedes has been spending her last few days here in Spain on my balcony with little Ellie. She still wasn’t eating well in my foster room, as Princess in particular was much too strong for her, and I wanted her to …
10/05/13: When I first saw Dulcie at SOS Pechina a few weeks ago she was recovering from her sterilisation and still had milk, so I assume her kittens had only recently been taken away from her. This whole family was taken to the protectora by Dulcie’s former owner. This is the same sad story. Spanish people often do not sterilise their cats and when …
April was, as planned, a quieter month for us, with Sands going to the UK, and no UK transport until the end of the month. Must say that the break was most welcome and gave us time to recharge and rethink how we want to continue helping the cats and dogs in Spain.
Interesting to see that two of the rescue sites have recently set up …
08/05/13: Last night the latest beautiful photos came from Germany of Pali’s babies and this news: “On Friday all will have their last medical, so we hope all now are healthy and we can starte in one or two weeks with the vaccinations.
The turtle cat is Yvonne (called Vivi) she has birthday together with my Yvonne the other babys have a birthday with my fostercat …
07/05/13: Polly is a little darling of a cat, found badly injured and taken to SOS Pechina. She is now about a year old and has needed surgery on both her back legs which were broken, maybe from being hit by a car. This surgery has been done at a vet’s local to Pechina, and I have been told all is now fine and …
03/05/13: Meet Oz an Almerimar cat. He was rescued earlier this week from the ventilation shaft of one of our lifts. Mary heard him yelling when she went to get her car out of the garage early one morning. We are not sure how long he had been in there but he was very very hungry, and at some point had scraped all the fur …
Unfortunately the life of a stray cat isn’t as glamorous as Disney’s Aristocats would have you believe. There are countless thousands of stray and feral cats in Europe, and for the majority of them life is about survival and hardship, as opposed to enjoying jazz. So how do you recognise the poor things, and most importantly – what do you do when you find one …
30/04/13: Gethan is yet another beautiful cats that has spent too long in Pechina. I am happy to write that most of the long termers have now been re-homed, and my aim is to get the others out of the rescue in the next 2 months. Gethan is a lovely male of about 5 years, with beautiful yellow eyes, and he is being adopted by …
30/04/13: Tomorrow beautiful little Fleur is 3 years old and we will be having Merluza as her special treat because unlike my other cats, Fleur does not like prawns. The love of her life is Mori, and her second best friend is Oscar. Chris and I are probably next in line, and sometimes she will play with Dusky and Kasper, and even say hello …
29/04/13: Leah is another lovely little lady, of about 1 year, that has been at SOS Pechina for months. I feel very sorry for her particularly as she has spent a lot of that time caged as she kept suffering from a reoccurring cold, and the outside pen was too cold for her. Now she is finally looking healthy and a much better weight. She …
28/04/13: This gorgoeous little boy of 7 months has found himself being prepared for Germany by a private rescue home, and he isn’t even a street cat. His family need to move to a new apartment, and the owner will not allow them to take their 3 cats. 1 has already been re-homed to a friend, and they are hoping to be able to …
27/04/13: Sweet little Noa is the 4th cat that I took out of SOS Pechina last week. He is about 6 months old, VERY sweet and just wants to be friendly to everyone, cat or human. He is also very handsome with beautiful blue eyes and a cute little ‘bob’ tail. The other stressy adult cats have been giving him a bit of a hard …
26/04/13: Luca traveled to Germany on the 06.04 transport, originally destined for a lovely foster home there. However the week before the transport a family decided to adopt him, AND they have also adopted his little friend from Almeria, MaryNury who is also VERY sweet. I saw how nicely they played together when both came for my photo shoot, and decided that Luca was the …
26/04/13: Time to meet another lovely, 2 year old, boy cat from SOS Pechina. He is now in my foster room along with Princess and Mercedes, waiting for the next transport to Germany. He is showing a little attitude to the other cats but I’m sure it is just stress from having been confined with a lot of other cats. Today he is also more …
25/04/13: Our 2 little ladies traveled to Germany on the April transport. At first they were off to a foster home together but the week before the transport they were actually adopted, AND on arrival their family loved them immediately. Both little girls came out of their boxes after the long journey with their tails in the air, ready to greet and cuddle with all! …
25/04/13: Ziggy is still doing well in his foster home where he has other friends, but is still waiting for his forever home. I’m hoping these new photos will help people to see what a lovely little man he is:
15/12/12: Today some terrible news that I had feared came from Germany. Lovely Korky in the last days had become very very sick again with what …
A number of people have reported a number of DEFRA inspections in the UK recently.
In one instance a rescue centre has reported that the last time they had rescue dogs delivered from Spain both DEFRA and Trading Standards were waiting for them to check all the dogs and the van.
In another a charity has reported that all the dogs that they re-homed owners had a …
22/04/13: Bugsy has now been in Germany for over 2 months and amazingly he is still waiting for his forever home. Maybe you need to meet this little character to really love him. Here’s hoping it won’t be too much longer before he is permanently settled, but in the meantime life he is looking very relaxed in his foster home.
04/02/13: Bugsy is a sporty, playful …
22/04/13: Mew is another lovely cat currently at SOS Pechina. Like most of the cats there, this gorgeous 3 year old was dropped off by his previous owner, who for some reason couldn’t keep him or just didn’t want him any longer. This is hard as always to believe as he is a lovely relaxed boy, who seems comfortable with all the other cats and …
Chris was interviewed recently for The Local newspaper, Spain’s News In English.
This is how they described him:
He drove 140,000km last year ferrying animals rescued from Spain’s dog pounds all around Europe. Meet Andalusia-based animal transporter, blog writer and businessman Chris Marshall.
You can read the full article here
19/04/13: This is another gorgeous little female, currently at SOS Pechina. she is about 2 years old and is obviously used to a much better home because for now she seems quite depressed and is dirty and is not cleaning herself. when I first saw her about 3 weeks ago she had climbed onto the top of the doorway to get away from the other …
19/04/13: Teo and Tilda DID find a home together very quickly and travelled to Germany on the 06.04 transport. For their last week here they were able to relax in my kitten room with another little female from Almeria. Tilda was a delight and quickly started coming for cuddles. Teo was more nervous but after a few days I could touch him a little. He …
08/04/13: In the last few days some lovely new photos have arrived from Christina of her cat boys, Diego, Dino and Pepe, along with her new human boy, David. It seems all the cats are very happy with, and love the latest member of the family. Christina has been most surprised by Dino, who is the most nervous of the trio. He is always close …
06/04/13: AND today a lovely new photo arrived of Lilly with Livio, the latest member of the family! Lovely to see her looking her gorgeous self. Apparently Lilly is ‘fascinated’ by the new arrival!
24/03/12: AND today a photo of lilly arrived with her Dad. Cute!!!
19/01/12: Yesterday Anke sent me some fantastic new photos of Lilly & TJ and their lovely dog friend Nino. They are …
Last month on Facebook a graphic description of events at a perrera in Spain shocked many, and served as a reminder to others as to why so many expats living in Spain get involved in Animal Rescue.
For many this was their first real exposure to these ‘killing stations’ as in recent months a huge amount of ‘newbies’ have got involved with helping to rehome dogs …
04/04/13: 2 more lovely photos have arrived today of Caspian now Pepe in his forever home. It all looks pretty luxurious for our Spanish street cat, but then Caspian was never really a true street cat. He is used to much better things. His new parents have written this: “Pepe is settled and gives us much joy! He is a dream cat and so naughty …
March was another really busy month for ALStrays pet transport from Spain to the UK and Europe with a total of 86 cats and dogs transported on all of our transports. March was the first month that we introduced the new schedule and it seems to have worked well, freeing us up to transport a lot more dogs and cats within Spain than ever before.
Unfortunately …
01/04/13: Yesterday I received some lovely new photos from Germany of big Gino and his NEW friend Tom. Sadly some months ago little Rex has to be put to sleep because of FIP. Gino remained healthy, and in January another lovely young male cat called Tom joined Gino in his forever home to be his new friend. Tom actually came from the same private rescue …
31/03/13: It seems that Augustus really doesn’t much like other cats, which is no doubt why he was SO stressed at Pechina. He has not made friends with the other cats in his new home, so has now gone to live with the parents of his Mum instead. Here he will be an only cat and much loved, which is I believe is what …
30/03/13: Jenson, 5 years old, is another beautiful cat found some weeks ago near to the rescue home in Almeria, at the time with a broken jaw. Jenson is now absolutely fine and and also ready to look for his forever home. Sadly he has tested positive for FiV, but this won’t stop him having a full happy life, and, as Jenson is so sweet …
Allo Allo. Listen carefully, I will only say this once! The last couple of weeks have highlighted both the good, the bad and the ugly of animal rescue in Spain. The good? The passion, amount of new people involved, success stories and increased awareness of the plight of so many innocent cats and dogs here in Spain. The bad? The self centred arrogance, the bitchiness, …
27/03/13: Teo is still doing really well and we have definitely bonded. I think he trusts me now to look after him. For the last 3 days we have had longer walks again late morning, and were even joined by my friend’s grand-daughter the other day. He remains nervous of most things, but stops less on his walks now, I hope because he believes I …
23/03/13: Jonas is VERY loved in his new home, so much so that his Dad gave his Mum a beautiful framed photo of the gorgeous boy for Valentine’s day. I don’t have a photo of that but I do now have some lovely ones of a very chilled-out Jonas, including one with his new best buddy. All is very fine in his world.
27/10/12: I …
24/03/13: VERY sad news also came on Friday about Petra. At just 1 year old, she has also had to be put to sleep because of FIP. She is the 3rd cat in the last few weeks to be diagnosed with this normally untreatable illness. FIP is a mutation of the corona virus, and affects a small percentage of unlucky cats. Stress can be …
23/03/13: I have just realised that it is a very long time since I last posted on our beautiful little boy. Kasper never did travel to his home in England because Kim, Chris and I decided that he should stay here with us and his cat friends, including his best play buddy Dusky. Our handsome boy is now about 10 months old and today I …
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Last month on Facebook a graphic description of events at a perrera in Spain shocked many, and served as a reminder to others as to why so many expats living in Spain get involved in Animal Rescue.
For many this was their first real exposure to these ‘killing stations’ as in recent months a huge amount of ‘newbies’ have got involved with helping to rehome dogs …
April was, as planned, a quieter month for us, with Sands going to the UK, and no UK transport until the end of the month. Must say that the break was most welcome and gave us time to recharge and rethink how we want to continue helping the cats and dogs in Spain.
Interesting to see that two of the rescue sites have recently set up …
Allo Allo. Listen carefully, I will only say this once! The last couple of weeks have highlighted both the good, the bad and the ugly of animal rescue in Spain. The good? The passion, amount of new people involved, success stories and increased awareness of the plight of so many innocent cats and dogs here in Spain. The bad? The self centred arrogance, the bitchiness, …
23/03/13: I have just realised that it is a very long time since I last posted on our beautiful little boy. Kasper never did travel to his home in England because Kim, Chris and I decided that he should stay here with us and his cat friends, including his best play buddy Dusky. Our handsome boy is now about 10 months old and today I …
27/03/13: Teo is still doing really well and we have definitely bonded. I think he trusts me now to look after him. For the last 3 days we have had longer walks again late morning, and were even joined by my friend’s grand-daughter the other day. He remains nervous of most things, but stops less on his walks now, I hope because he believes I …
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