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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 …
Ellie – An Abandoned Sweetheart
12/05/13: Ellie IS going to need time to recover fully from her almost starvation, but I have just taken these lovely photos of her enjoying the sun. She now has bright alive eyes again, and the mucus is almost gone from her nose. Now she just needs to gain more appetite and weight. I am about to go and spend some time with her as …
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 …
Lovely Dulcie
10/05/13: When I first saw Dulcie at SOS Pechina a few weeks ago she was recovering from her sterilisation and still had milk, so I assume her kittens had only recently been taken away from her. This whole family was taken to the protectora by Dulcie’s former owner. This is the same sad story. Spanish people often do not sterilise their cats and when …
Little Polly
07/05/13: Polly is a little darling of a cat, found badly injured and taken to SOS Pechina. She is now about a year old and has needed surgery on both her back legs which were broken, maybe from being hit by a car. This surgery has been done at a vet’s local to Pechina, and I have been told all is now fine and …
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 …
Gethan Has A Home
30/04/13: Gethan is yet another beautiful cats that has spent too long in Pechina. I am happy to write that most of the long termers have now been re-homed, and my aim is to get the others out of the rescue in the next 2 months. Gethan is a lovely male of about 5 years, with beautiful yellow eyes, and he is being adopted by …
Fleur’s 3rd Birthday
30/04/13: Tomorrow beautiful little Fleur is 3 years old and we will be having Merluza as her special treat because unlike my other cats, Fleur does not like prawns. The love of her life is Mori, and her second best friend is Oscar. Chris and I are probably next in line, and sometimes she will play with Dusky and Kasper, and even say hello …
Little Leah
29/04/13: Leah is another lovely little lady, of about 1 year, that has been at SOS Pechina for months. I feel very sorry for her particularly as she has spent a lot of that time caged as she kept suffering from a reoccurring cold, and the outside pen was too cold for her. Now she is finally looking healthy and a much better weight. She …
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 …
Meet Mew
22/04/13: Mew is another lovely cat currently at SOS Pechina. Like most of the cats there, this gorgeous 3 year old was dropped off by his previous owner, who for some reason couldn’t keep him or just didn’t want him any longer. This is hard as always to believe as he is a lovely relaxed boy, who seems comfortable with all the other cats and …
Beautiful Princess
19/04/13: This is another gorgeous little female, currently at SOS Pechina. she is about 2 years old and is obviously used to a much better home because for now she seems quite depressed and is dirty and is not cleaning herself. when I first saw her about 3 weeks ago she had climbed onto the top of the doorway to get away from the other …
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 …
Morissa & Niebla
16/03/13: Today I am VERY happy to be able to write that Niebla is no longer at Pechina. I collected her this morning and have taken her to be fostered by Miguel Angel. For the first week she will be mostly alone while she is treated for parasites, but she will still be getting more love and affection, AND a foster home should be free …
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 …
Pantera
22/02/13: Pantera is a lucky boy. He was rescued from the perera in Almeria by the lovely Spanish woman who had been feeding him for months outside. She noticed that he had disappeared and realised what had happened to him and the 2 younger cats she knew well. The other residents in her apartment block had complained about the stray cats in the communal gardens, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
MY Cat Oscar’s Anniversary
24/11/12: Today our beautiful big boy Oscar is 4 years old. He has been spending the day enjoying the mess we are making decorating, and lying in the sun on the roof. We have had tuna, and treats and life is just great for our lovely boy. Since his anniversary, a new little friend Kasper has of course come into Oscar’s life, and he has …
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 …
