A slightly quieter book sale today as there definitely seemed to be less people around the port. We did however still raise 120€ for the strays fund, which will cover the costs of re-homing 1.5 cats, OR castrating 4 feral cats, so it was a well spent few hours.

Once again, thank you to Pam Roberts and all her helpers for yesterday’s book sale. Another 220€ has been raised to help the stray animals here.

Over 200€ GREAT!!! Well done to Pam for another great book sale last Saturday. 226,50€ was raised to help the stray cats here, which will be well spent.

Update 11/04/09: 1600
No sign of the remaining kitten this morning. George will look again later and Nicola and i will be back in the morning. Worrying as we know it is there poor little thing.

Update: 18:00
Just back from rescuing a 3rd kitten … the little white boy. We saw the 4th one but didn’t manage to catch it and it disappeared under the rocks. We will try again tomorrow.

Well done to Pam for having another very successful book sale to put Almerimar Strays back in the black! Yesterday raised another 180€ to help more cats here in Almerimar.

We now have a great process for re-homing the tamer stray cats, and with great prices from local vets and money coming back from Germany for each cat homed, each cat is costing us less overall to help. We do however still need money regularly, to make up the deficit for the re-homed cats and also to pay for the sterilisations of the more feral cats. All contributions are always welcome.

UPDATE: 22/04/09 17:00
Great news! Tommy now has a foster home with Nicola and Erika and is out of his cage and enjoying a nice meaty meal. Now I just hope he settles into apartment life as he has been a street cat for several years. Being FIV positive, the outdoor life is not longer an option for him. If things are looking good he will be castrated, chipped etc. next week and with luck, the German girls will find him a home soon. Even better, as Erika is flying to Munich in June, she will hopefully be able to take him with her, as the stressful 24 hours transport will not be great for this FIV cat. What a lucky boy!!! So far so good.

GREAT news! Having counted all the small change, I can now confirm that Pam’s Almerimar Strays (mainly) book sale raise 235€ on Saturday, which is fantastic, particularly as we have effectively already spent the money helping Korky and Phoebe. SO thank you to everyone who supported it, and i hope you will all come to the next one if you can, at the end of this month, when there will be more books and other goodies for sale, all for a very good cause.

I, like India Knight, the Sunday Times columnist, am now a convert to Twitter! For those who ‘know nothing’ about it, Twitter is an online networking website that allows you to send basically one-line snippets out into the ether about what you are up to, or thinking, at any particular moment.

A reminder that this Saturday, being the last one in the month, is the Almerimar Strays book, DVD and CD sale. Everything is brilliant value, and in support of our work with the stray cats, so please come along and support us. The sale is between 12 and 2pm at the Ankara Bar. Hope to see you there.

The re scheduled Book, CD and DVD sale will take place this Saturday the 13th!