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Ellie – An Abandoned Sweetheart
21/05/13: Ellie has had a tough 10 days since I last posted about her. She ate ok for a few days and then started to vomit her food, we think as a reaction to the antibiotics. I was so worried that I moved her to a small rescue home where the owner had better food and medicine options and a lot of experience of problems …
Daphne – An Aristocratic Cat
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 …
Momo & Tiger
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, …
Poppy & Friends
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 …
2 Beautiful Black Cats
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. …
Mercedes
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 …
Pali & Her Family
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 …
Meet Oz
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 …
Beautiful Neko
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 …
Sweet Little Noa
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 …
Meet Digby
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 …
Ziggy Stardust & Buddy Korky
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 …
Bugsy
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 …
Gentleman Jenson
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 …
Big Merlin
27/02/13: This is big Merlin, a 6.5 kg lamb of a cat, completely gentle and now about 2.5 years old. He IS an Almerimar cat, and we had planned to leave him in the port because he was being fed by a number of people and seemed relaxed and healthy outside. We had also been told that somebody last year had tried to adopt him …
Puppies – Peque, Bollilo, Candy & Lusy
15/02/13: Today I met these little lovelies at my vet again for their next vaccinations. They are very well and I managed to take some better photos of Lucy. The other 3 already have adoptants in Germany, and I think now after her latest photoshoot, Lucy will not have to wait long for her family. All 4 will travel to Germany 09.03.
29/01/13: These little puppies …
Amber & Silver
13/02/13: Here are 2 beautiful siam-mix kittens, now about 8 months old. It is always hard to understand how people can do this, particularly with such beautiful cats, but these 2 were we think just abandoned. They were found by an English couple alone in a village near to Sorbas, and are now being looked after by Matt, who is fostering them and preparing them …
Chato
13/02/13: I am very relieved that our lovely boy has fine in Germany. He is eating well and foster Mum Bettina has said what a lovely cat he is. I am now waiting for news of his first visit to the specialist vet.
10/02/13: Chato is a gentleman of a cat, now about 5 years old, and we think pure Persian. Chato is definitely …
Felicity (Fliss)
09/02/13: Flissie is a lovely little kitten, now about 8 months old, that found Jenny’s garden some months ago, and then slowly worked her way into the house and onto Jenny’s lap! We think she must have been abandoned as she was immediately friendly to all of us, although less sure of the other outside cats and at first of children. Over the months she …
Pamy
02/02/13: Pamy was rescued in Aguadulce by a lovely spanish lady and taken to her private cat home. Pamy came to her for food when she parked by her vet, and was very happy to climb into a transport box. I think she is definitely an abandoned cat as, when she came here for a photo shoot, she was immediately friendly and cuddly to all …
Maddie
27/01/13: Latest news from Kerstin in Germany is that little Maddie has an interested family, and the home check will be in the next 10 days. I hope all will be fine and she will be off to her new life on the 09.03 transport.
28/12/12: Time to meet little Maddie, another cutie left at SOS Pechina. She is just about a year old and very …
Gummi
26/01/13: Gummi is yet another beautiful cat who has been in SOS Pechina for some time. When I took my first photos of her she was quite dirty and thin which is often the sign of a distressed cat. She is now much healthier and more beautiful looking but still seems sad and stressed by all the other cats. I am therefore VERY happy …
2 Beautiful Coyote Girls
25/01/13: Montse and Magda have both been at SOS Pechina for some months now both are lovely relaxed cats. Both are now 2-3 years old, and the great news recently is that Montse now has an adoptant in Germany and I will be taking her out of Pechina in the next few days, to finally prepare her for travel on our 09.02 transport. She has …
Marilo
24/01/13: On Sunday I took some lovely new photos of the now even more beautiful Marilo. She was much more friendly and relaxed, and 2 more months if very good food has given her an even more splendid coat!
26/11/12: Marilo is a beautiful, friendly female cat of about 2 years, who was rescued by a lovely Spanish lady, when she saw her very thin …
A Beautiful Silver Cat
23/01/13: Olli has a beautiful new sleeping cushion. Anke bought one for her cats and then needed a second one because they all wanted to sleep on it. I actually have 2 similar ones for my cats but they are black. I did not know they came in this glorious red colour. Kasper says Olli looks great on hers and, as he is the same …
Bonnie & Clyde
19/01/13: These 2 beautiful cats were left at a commercial cattery near Mojacar by their previous owner, who had moved out of her house and felt she could not look after them anymore. Their situation was not good because she was also running out of money to pay their cattery fees, but Matt fortunately found them a foster home and has been preparing them for …
Mimi
19/01/13: Mimi is a very beautiful, 4 year old, previously owned cat. She was bought as a kitten by her Spanish parents and was much loved by them. Her Mum Maria contacted me about 3 weeks ago quite stressed because she is pregnant and her doctor had told her that Mimi MUST go. This is a common situation in Spain. The doctors believe there is …
Tara, Holly & Coco – 3 Older Lady Cats
30/12/12: Tara, Holly and Coco are 3, 9-year old ladies that were abandoned in the garden by their previous owner when she sold her house. Fortunately the new owner of the house, Ana, has cared enough to feed them, give them some love, and even take them to the vet for vaccinations. Unfortunately she cannot keep them long-term because her husband is very allergic to …
Daniela
19/12/12: This little lady now has her forever home. She will be the perfect, gentle friend to a slightly handicapped kitten in a very loving home, and will travel to Germany 12.01 on the first transport of 2013.
30/11/12: Little Daniela is about 5 months old and was handed to Montse by some Spanish children who didn’t want her any more. She is very very …
Suri
17/12/12: Suri is a beautiful little lady who unfortunately for her was also not wanted by her original owner. When I first went to Pechina in the summer I saw Suri then, so I know she has been there for most of this year, and as she is now only about 18 months old, she must have been a very young cat when she arrived. …
Sherlock
16/12/12: Sherlock is another beautiful cat, now about 2 years old, that was left at SOS Pechina by his previous owner. I checked on him when I visited last week and he seems relaxed there for now while he awaits a new family in Germany. Because I have managed to re-home so many of the Pechina cats, the remaining ones are less stressed, and have …
Fabian/Milu
12/12/12: Fabian is another SOS Pechina cat, now about 18 months old. He had been left there by his previous owner who no longer wanted him, and was actually only there a few weeks before a foster home came up in Germany for him. Fabian was previously chipped and I later discovered that his name was in fact Milu. He travelled to Germany on the …
A Very Cute Litter
03/12/12: Rodri and Marie Jose are 2 of a very cute litter, rescued from the streets of Almeria, and now about 3 month old. Rodri will probably be the most popular as he has gorgeous long fur and is definitely the most photogenic, but little black and white Marie Jose is also a lovely little kitten as I saw for myself at the recent photo …
Adorable Anthony
02/12/12: I met lovely little Anthony just over a week ago when he came with Montse for a photo shoot. He IS as you can see from his photos completely adorable, and at just 3.5 months old he is very cheeky and playful. He was a great subject to photograph as in between games with the other kittens, he kept stopping for some fantastic poses! …
Boris
30/11/12: Boris is a real character cat. I met him outside Montse’s house where he now lives. She rescued him, badly injured, about 2 years ago, but Boris was very unhappy in her house, because of the large number of youngsters there! Boris is a mature cat of now about 12 years, and he prefers the peace of the little garden outside, to the riot …
Lala
29/11/12: I am really surprised that this little darling has not found her forever home yet. It seems that adult cats are more popular in Germany right now. Hopefully these new photos will show what a lovely playful girl Lala is. Now 5 months old, she is still SOooo sweet!
22/09/12: It is cute kitten time for the weekend. Normally I don’t send kittens through to …
A Charming Litter
29/11/12: Micky has now been in Germany for over 2 months and all is fine. I will post new photos of him next. His sisters and brother Chris are still at Montse’s and have grown into big strong kittens of now almost 8 months. Last Friday they all came over to Jenny’s conservatory for a photo shoot, and I had mixed success with them. Chris …
Tom
28/11/12: This is Tom, a lovely bigger tomcat rescued from the streets of Almeria and now in a safe foster home. I met him on Friday when he came to Almerimar as part of a photo shoot for his rescue home. He is a lovely friendly boy but was far more interested in exploring this new room, than having cuddles or posing for photos! At …
Champers
22/11/12: Champers is almost 8kg of beautiful tomcat! He found Jenny’s garden some weeks ago and at first seemed nervous and semi-feral even though he was wearing a collar. Slowly he became more confident and showed his tame side. He is now very trusting and Jenny can stroke him and pick him up easily. His collar has long since disappeared and as he come twice …
Caffrey
10/11/12: Time to meet Caffrey the other completely gorgeous black tomcat currently at SOS Pechina. Caffrey has had his passport for some time now and I am determined to get him out of Pechina soon, and hopefully off to Germany on the next transport. He is very very loveable, and a big strong boy. Now about 3 years old he would LOVE a proper family …
