I’ve posted before about how sorry I feel for the abandoned pets, and how vulnerable I think they are out on the streets. This is why I get very frustrated when people tell us not to feed the stray animals here, because they can fend for themselves.

Genuine street cats know how to forage and hunt for food, and they are comfortable out in the wild because that is all they have ever known. Abandoned pets I imagine, find the switch vey stressful; they are suddenly forced to compete with other more street-wise animals and their natural instincts are not particularly tuned to fend for themselves. I also think they must miss the human contact and affection.

Kasper is now on his 3rd name! This is the first one we really like and as it is a German name, hopefully they will like it over there as well.

Tommy is doing ok. Our neighbours are looking after him really well and forgiving his toilet accidents, that were becoming quite numerous until we had him castrated on Thursday. Now things are better and we remain hopeful that he can be an indoor cat and therefore have a good life. Because Tommy is FIV positive he must stay away from other cats so cannot go back to his previous outdoor life.

Great news this afternoon, that both Cookie and Mina have arrived safely in Germany, and are now in their foster homes there. It is always good to hear as the transport takes close to 24 hours, so is a very long trip for the poor little buddies. Now we just have Tommy in a foster home here in Almerimar and Caesar in the cat rescue home with Gisela, but as always I have plans to help more cats!

Yesterday I had to move Caesar from his foster home. Things had not worked our because the very kind Spanish lady has a small apartment and Caesar decided NOT to use his litter tray, which as you can imagine was causing a few problems with rugs etc.

So far everything has gone to plan this week. Yesterday we caught Monster Mog or Caesar as we are now calling him, and after an overnighter with Jenny he has been up to vet Miguel today to be ‘processed’.

Just back from feeding the Alcor Cats again and I was very pleased to see Caesar or Monster Mog as he was origianally named for his aggressive ways. Pleased because we intend to ‘rescue’ him from his life on the street tomorrow. It definitely doesn’t suit him as he looks dirty and bedraggled a sure sign of an unhappy cat who is not cleaning himself.

OK this week is now organised. Pam and I did try and catch another pregnant female this morning but she was unusually skittish so we are resigned to the fact that more kittens are coming. We are hoping she will have them on one of the boats and we may be able to find them earlier enough to (I’m sorry) destroy them. This HAS to be the best option for tiny kittens, although I know i will still find it hard.

Fed the strays on Calle Alcor as usual this afternoon, and left a little worried about Mimi and her kittens. She was there looking healthy and tucked into the meat and special biscuits I took her so all seemed well. She then however seemed to get disturbed by something as she was about to go through the gate into the normally empty house, where we think she may have the kittens.

I am now definitely worried about Monster Mog. When he first appeared he had swagger, excess fat, and a rather smart pink collar, and we were not overly fond of him as he was chasing off our more gentle strays. Now he seems sad, is much thinner, has no collar, and appears to still have a slight limp from a nasty bite.