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Blanca – A Beautiful Blue-eyed Cat
05/02/12: After 3 weeks as expected Blanca and Sira have become firm friends. They now “eat together, sleep together and do stupid things together!” One of Sira’s favourite habits is to look at herself in the shower drain. Her Mum is not sure if this is curiosity or vanity, and she will sit there for a long time looking in the mirror! The other …
Fifi, Pepo & Mofi Kittens
04/02/12: Mofi and Fifi are already in Germany. They traveled to a foster home on the 13.01 transport and the great news is that their foster Mum loves them so much she is going to keep them. They have their forever home! Pepo meanwhile came to my photo shoot at the end of December for more pictures, and since then Montse has taken even more …
Algernon – A Beautiful BIG Snuggle Boy
01/02/12: Not such good news on Sunday morning. Only hours before Algie was due to set off to his new home, the husband phone to say that they had changed their minds and didn’t want a new cat after all. Kerstin actually thinks it is him and not his wife that doesn’t want our lovely boy. They are the ones who have missed out. …
Tia & Maria – Pretty Sister Cats
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. …
Pandora – A VERY Photogenic Cat
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 …
Beautiful Serafina & Little Evie
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 …
Katia – A Sweet Tricolor Cat
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 …
Siro – A Handsome ginger TomCat
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 …
Mischa, Nacho, Boris & Buttons Kittens
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 …
4 Cute Cats
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 …
2 Very Cute Kittens!
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 …
Blanca – A White Siam-mix Cat
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 …
Figaro – A Beautiful Cat
04/12/11: Figaro traveled to Germany on the 02.12 transport, and the news yesterday was that his new Mum Johanna was VERY happy to have him. This is no surprise. Who wouldn’t be happy to have Figaro? This lovely boy spent his last night in Spain back in our TV room and was dispensing cuddles whenever Chris and I went to see him. He really is …
A Beautiful Silver Cat
30/11/11: Oli is now back at Anke’s after her adoption did not work out. For 3 days she hid and would not eat or drink, while Anke worried about her. Finally last night her adopt ant, Patrick, agreed that the best for Oli would be to take her back to Anke. This will always be a problem with the more sensitive cats. They need the …
Franz – A Beautiful Little Tomcat
11/11/11: Last night Susanne sent me fantastic photos of this confident little chap in his foster home in Germany: “Yesterday I visited Franz at his foster home in Germany. He is a wonderful little tomcat and really feels at home at Stefanie and Stefan’s. He is good friends with everyone – even the persian-mix lady Lucy allows Franz to sleep next to her. Normally …
Indiana – A Beautiful Tabby Boy
10/11/11: Yesterday I picked up some lovely new photos of Indiana in his foster home in Germany. Life is looking pretty good! See below:
30/10/11: Indiana is already in Germany, having travelled last weekend, after only having spent a few weeks at Montse’s cat home. I was told about him by PAWs Mojacar, after his owner contacted them, looking for new home for him. Viviana had …
Grison – A long-haired Gentle Boy
Grison is a lovely gentle cat, but very nervous of new people and situations. Now that he trusts Montse, he loves strokes and cuddles, but he is easily startled and will still often hide. She found him on the streets of Almeria, hungry and afraid and with his beautiful long fur so completely matted that she had to cut most of it off. Now he …
Foxy Roxy Kitten
29/10711: The latest news from Susanne: “Meretle and Roxy play catch. Mimi and the two babies have played PAW batting – Meretle sat in Roxy’s box and batted out, and Mimi was lurking in front and Roxy on the box. All had fun without claws, or hissing, ended up with nose kisses … played really nicely! : happy:
Maxes with Roxy and Meretle is also …
Domino’s Old Friends
27/10/11: Christina in Germany has checked up on our 3 girls, and this is the latest news: “I just called Mrs. Neff and asked how the three ladies are doing. I think she has already fallen in love with these three. She told me that all of them are very trusting. When she comes into their room they coming loudly meowing and purring. They …
Very Sweet Toto Kitten
22/10/11: Toto is also on his way to a lovely foster home in Germany, to join another playful, friendly kitten, his age!
18/10/11: This very sweet little chap will hopefully also be on Saturday’s transport to Germany, as a foster home there is looking for a second friendly kitten of no more than 7 months and he definitely fits the bill! Toto was first rescued by …
Tia’s Boy Kittens & Daughter
14/10/11: Our little girl had her staples out today, and all is fine. She was very happy to lose her head collar!!!
07/10/11: Akima (Kimmy) is fine but she now has metal staples instead of stitches in her operation wound! This morning she also had an antibiotics injection, some more silver spray on her wound, and had her collar firmly attacked, which is where it …
Salma is VERY Happy!
13/10/11: Amazingly Salma has now lived with Kerstin and her family for nearly 9 months, having rejected 2 adoptants earlier in the year. Kerstin DOES love her but really doesn’t want to keep another cat as she already has 2 and 2 dogs, AND she wants to be able to help foster other cats in the future. She has been looking for the right …
Four Beautiful Kittens
11/10/11: This gorgeous foursome have now been in Germany just over 3 months and all is very well with them. The latest news is that Muffin has been adopted, which just leaves Comet waiting for his forever home. There HAS apparently been a lot of interest in him but not from people that Martina was happy with. I am sorry that Muffin and Comet have …
Iggy – Another Cute Little Kitten
Iggy was found by Lita a friend of Montse’s, and is currently good friends with her big fat own cat Nono! Iggy was cowering behind a bush in a recently cleared field when Lita heard him crying. When she called back he came straight out to ask for help. Lita looked for the rest of his family but no more cats appeared. We think sadly …
Another gorgeous Little Kitten
This is Katya, best buddy of Valentina and another gorgeous little kitten found abandoned. I am hoping that I can find a home for her with Valentina, so these lovely little girls can stay together. Both love all people, cats and big dogs! This is what her Spanish foster Dad here had to say about her:
“One afternoon I was walking with my dog when we …
One Gorgeous Little Kitten
This is Valentine, a real little sweetheart, rescued from the streets of Almeria, and now just over 3 months old. She loves everybody, including cats and Miguel and Isabel’s big dog. It is actually amazing that she is so trusting, as the woman who helped her, saw her being kicked by some spanish children. A few minutes later and this little darling may not have …
Brother & Sister Kittens
When I first started AlStrays its aims were solely to help the port cats in Almerimar, and the litters of kittens that were frequently abandoned on the rocks here. We used to smile that all our Almerimar kittens seemed to come out predominantly black and white, and that out big ginger Tomcat, Chivers, was probably not up to the job, since we had no kittens …
Felix A Confident Gentle Cat
19/06/11: Late last night I had an email from Martina that somebody was interested in Felix. This seems great news, but we must keep everything crossed as sometimes prospective adoptants ‘go away’! I’m hoping that they are close enough to visit Felix as to meet this cat is to love him, but if not then maybe this video will help them to see how truly …
