Mr O’Malley is a cool cat from the mountain village of Cobdar. He was born as a village cat, but has been fed from a young kitten by Susan, a kind English lady who has already helped me help a lot of cats on their way to a better life in Germany. Like a lot of cats from this village, Mr O’Malley is a siam-mix …
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27/01/12: More photos came in today and the latest news is that the 2 little witch girls have reach a truce, if not a friendship. Their Mum has bought a homeopathic remedy for Desi’s outrage, and ordered some Feliway to help de-stress her. This is the problem with these little ‘red’ females! In the meantime Josie continues to make herself at home and explore everything. She is running her new Mum ragged, making sure she does not hurt herself on anything. Then one day, after a lot of play, she actually fell asleep whilst upside down on the cat tree, and fell off! She still loves to sleep between her new parents, and they obviously adore her, even if Desi doesn’t yet!!! Read the full story »
Shadow a beautiful siam-mix boy was rescue by Matt from the local vet as a tiny kitten with his sister Maya. Both kittens were on the point of being born when their mother was castrated so Matt took them and bottle fed them, knowing that the owner of their mother would not want them. Both survived and Maya has since been re-homed locally. Shadow’s trip …
24/01/12: Yesterday morning another email came from Charlie’s Mum. Charlie had slept for the last 3 nights snuggled right up to her, and they had also been playing with a toy mouse together. Charlie was down one floor a lot looking out of the dining room window at the garden, and had also been watching the dogs from the top of the stairs to …
24/01/12: News today is that the new photos have worked. Milo has his home with a lovely family who were looking for a very friendly cat, who would, unlike their older cat, enjoy playing with their children. The home check last night was positive and he will be on the 24.02 transport to a new life in Germany.
18/01/12: Milo, now just over a year …
23/01/12: Blanca has now been just over a week in her forever home and her new Mum has sent us a short report: “After the first exciting days Blanca has settled in well. After some very excited first behaviour, we now have a loving, intelligent, beautiful cat. She has explored the whole house, and found her favourite places. In the evenings she loves to cuddle …
23/01/12: Today I received fantastic photos from Miri and the news that Bud (renamed Filou) and Donka will stay with her forever! “Donka and Filou are feeling very well. After a few days they have lost her shyness, and now they love me. Both are a personal gain in my Life and I really do not want to ever be without them! Donka and Filou …
21/01/12: Debra travelled to Germany on the 13.01 transport, our first of 2012, and her family are VERY happy with her. She did have a little cold when she arrived, but all now seems fine and she is busy settling in and making friends with her new boyfriend. Tommy, it has to be said, was being a little bit of a ‘drama queen’ the first …
A lot of the cats that I have been re-homing in the last 2 years have of course been kittens, or 1 year old cats, because they were the kittens from the previous year! but we do of course get abandoned or lost adult cats, and some are only rescued after they have spent some years on the streets. Grison I think had had a …
19/01/12: Yesterday Anke sent me some fantastic new photos of Lilly & TJ and their lovely dog friend Nino. They are look very close and happy. I always LOVE photos of cats and dogs snuggled up together. Lilly looks fatter in the face and much more grown up, but this is not a surprise as our little girl will be 2 in May, and her …
18/01/12: It seems that Sofia may already have her forever home. For her foster Mum it seems to have been love at first sight! Her boyfriend for now will keep Sofia, and soon they will all live together, along with Verena’s own 7 cats! In the meantime she is being very spoilt, and she has very definite views about what she will eat: “Verena is …
18/01/12: It is definitely time for an update on our pretty sisters. They actually travelled to Germany on the 02.12 transport so have been in their foster home for about 6 weeks now. Tia it seems really didn’t like Pam’s dog Rufus, because she was ‘marking’ all the time in her last weeks there. In Germany this was never a problem. Both are very happy. …
Juli and Milos are 2 more beautiful kittens from Montse’s cat rescue. They were first helped by a kind Spanish man who saw them and their friends outside a supermarket and fed them for some weeks before he took them to Montse. Juli was always quite nervous, so it was fortunate that the German family who fell in love with her photos asked for a …
17/01/12: Dick did find his forever home very quickly and travelled to Germany on the 02.12 transport. I now have feedback and the first pictures of Dick in his new home. “He feels very well and at home and is very happy with his two attendants for feeding, playing and so on… He is very tame and likes to discuss things with his parents, but …
16/01/12: All 4 of these beautiful kittens arrived in their new homes on Saturday evening and their families loved them instantly! Aramis and Atos were busy exploring, and the little 7 year old girl was fascinated. Her parents were watching her, because she instantly wanted to pick the boys up and she needs to learn how to treat them, but all is fine. Portos and …
I think all cats are beautiful in different ways, but Pandora is definitely a princess, being a gorgeous, grey Persian-mix lady. For the last few months she has been fed and looked after by Joan Rockcliffe who owns a dog kennels in Berja. She wasn’t able to take Pandora into her home, because of her 5 own dogs, and contacted me because she thought it …
23:00 Update: Now I have news of the girls in their new home: “Candy and Zoe have arrived safely in their new home. They already have been eating and drinking and have used the litter box. Candy is a little bit shy, she sniffs the environment and she can be touched, but when something is scary she is hiding under the table. Zoe is trusting …
Update 10:15: All Wallau cats unloaded. All fine. Transport is now heading for UK with 2 cats (for Holland) and 2 dogs. My AlStrays cats have all been delivered to Katzenherzen and will now be on their way by car to their foster homes and adopt ants. I await more news.
14/01/12: All the Bruchsal cats are now off the transport, including Algernon and Peter. All …
13/01/12:Today Serafina is on her way to her adoptant in Germany, and joining her will be her little friend Evie, whom Isabel also found in a street in Vicar, where they live. Evie is a tiny, sweet little girl, of about the same age as Serafina. The great news is that in the last few days Serafina’s family have decided to foster Evie, AND, as …
This is Katia, another of Montse’s 2010 kittens rescued from the streets of Almeria and now 20 months old. She hasn’t featured on this blog before because, unlike a lot of her friends, I had no good photos of her. She is quite shy of new people and tends to hide when I do my photo shoots. In fact my last photos of her were …
This is Siro, who has grown from a thin little kitten into a very handsome, well-rounded TomCat, now about 8 months. I was surprised by the shape of his face as when I saw him last he looked much more like our thin Spanish cats. Now he looks more English! Of course Siro is VERY Spanish, having been rescued by Montse from a drain as …
06/01/12: Now I have new years greetings from Hutch, his new best friend Enyo, and his parents: “Hutch is really well. Already he has become a really big cat. He eats like a horse without getting fat, and he likes to climb in the fridge in search of treats. He is also always hanging on our plates, looking at what we are eating, but …
29/12/11: Henrietta didn’t actually spend too long at Anke’s. Within a week she was off to her adoptant in Switzerland, who loved her from the start. Last night I received a lovely email from her: “Hello I am Johanna Verena Frei from Switzerland. I adopted Henrietta. She is a princess, I love her sooo very much, we are real friends. I never want to miss …
27/12/11: Today I received the first photo of Nacho with his new Main Coon friend Socke, and a lovely one of him enjoying Christmas! “Nacho´s mum wrote, that there was a big fight the first days because Nacho was very egotistic and didn´t want to share his home but now everything is fine.” All looks very cute to me. See the latest photos below!
22/12/11: Now …
26/12/11: Yesterday I was able to send Montse a fantastic Xmas present … lovely photos of her boys in their new home. They look much bigger and very happy. Not only are they obviously still very close, but they have 2 new friends to love and play with. Their lovely new Mum Heike describes Paul, Newman, Fiete and Anton (the two red tomcats) as a …
26/12/11: Alba’s luck has definitely changed. A couple visited her at her foster home in Germany last week and fell instantly in love with this gorgeous, gentle cat. On Friday the home check was VERY positive: “Wonderful, lovely people and a big house with balcony and a little garden…”. Alba has her forever home!
04/12/11: Alba was found wandering around one of the commercial centres …
26/12/11: The latest news is that Tigger already has his forever home, and arrived there on Friday, just in time for Xmas. No photos yet, but this morning Anke sent me this message from his new Mum: All sounds fantastic! “Our joy is simply indescribable! Tigger has settled immediately, and he runs behind me ever since he arrived. Theo was the greatest too yesterday; he …
All these 4 beautiful cats are 2010 kittens. Rebecca, Comfrey and Bracken (born August 2010) were handed into a vet’s near Mojacar and for about 3 months lived mainly in a big cage as they were very nervous and Ellen had no other place for them. Matt and I agreed to take them on at the end of last year and in March of this …
21/12/11: Sheri and Pepe have been together in a foster home in Germany, since the transport almost 3 weeks ago. Today I had great news from Anke: “Sheri and Pepe have a new home in Frankfurt. Beautiful young people from Mazedonia and Portugal.”
27/11/11: This gorgeous pair have been having a lovely playful time at Tracey and Kev’s for November, and will be on the …
21/12/11: Maya did find a lovely home in time for the December transport, and already I have some new sweet photos of her with her new Mum.
10/11/11: This is Maya, a lovely 8 month old kitten, handed in to PAWs last week by a Spanish man who said he had found her in his garden. From the start she was very sweet and tame, sitting …
18/12/11: Last Saturday I was able to visit Harvey and Greta in their home, and it was really lovely to see them after about 2 years. Harvey was always a cool cat, but Greta has changed from being a slightly nervous girl, to being a calm relaxed cat, who was happy to be stroked by a stranger. I am very happy for them, and having …
17/12/11: Some lovely new photos have just arrived from Germany today. “Very crazy Evelina in love with the cute gentleman.”
14/12/11: On Monday I was, while in Germany, able to make a very special visit to see Kai and Evelina in their new home. All the cats that AlStrays helps to send to new lives are important to me, but I of course have a special …
16/12/11: Since my last update I have received 2 emails from Bugsy and Molly’s new family. This was the first lovely message: “Dear Sandra and Chris, thank you very much for your efforts to bring Molly and Bugsy safe and healthy to Germany. They are still very shy, but we love them already. This are the first pictures in their new home in Bavaria. Best …
16/12/11: Last weekend I visited Tommy in his new home in Germany, and he is definitely a lucky little man. His new family really love him, and are watching him closely to ensure that after all his problems, he now stays healthy. Tommy still has some pain from his gums when he eats hard food, and it is possible they will never be quite right, …
22/01/12: News came through this afternoon from Kerstin, that Algie has his forever home, with a lovely family of doctors, in a big house AND with a safe garden! so he will be able to go outside again after all. Perfect! They have been thinking for some days, because after their last cat died at 20+, they had decided NOT to have another one. That …
Blanca is a new resident at the PAWs cattery in Mojacar. She had been living mostly up a tree for some weeks because she was so afraid of some dogs in a neighbouring garden. Victoria who has been feeding Blanca among others, believes her to be an abandoned cat. From her photos I would definitely agree as she looks a delightful, friendly girl, and not …
We’ve been contacted by Kerry who has a dilemma, can anyone help? In Kerry’s own words:
“About 5 months ago or more, a stray cat came in my window in the night and had kittens. I couldn’t bring myself to put them out and have tried everywhere to get help. The big problem is that my neighbour poisons or stamps on the cats. He has just …
Moving can be a highly stressful experience for your cat, but it can also be an awful experience for their owners too if careful thought and planning hasn’t gone into the process. Hyperactivity and motion sickness can be real problems that can ruin the interior of your car as well as your relationship with your kitty. Whether you’re travelling in a second hand Audi …
18/01/12: Peter travelled to Germany on the 13.01 transport and is now being spoilt as an only cat by Sabrina, a very experienced foster Mum, with Kerstin close by if there are any problems. I decided to let him travel because of the big improvement in his gums over the past 6 weeks, which I believe may have been because of the Colostrum he …
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