21/05/12: All is now perfect in Siro’s world. Sheela has become his best friend, and although they quarrel at times, mostly they play together and cuddle and spend hours licking each other. Enjoy the lovely new photos of one happy boy and his cute girlfriend!
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24/03/12: Today is a very sad day for Montse. This morning she sent me a message to say that Stupsi had become VERY sick overnight and she was rushing her to a vet. About an hour ago came the news that our little girl had died. The fact that she had some happiness and a lot of love in her little life is not much …
I am now so used to male cats in particular, testing positive for FiV that it doesn’t really worry me too much. They are not very likely to have health problems if looked after well, and they have a very good chance of finding great homes now that understanding of FiV is spreading, particularly if they are as handsome and gorgeous as Marley. He ended …
20/03/12: The home check was positive, so Brons will move this evening. He has proved to be a slightly fussy eater and has been feasting on beef, tuna and sausage, but now his adoptants can find the perfect cat food for this lovely boy!!!
18/03/12: Latest news about Brons is that petra has a home check for him on Tuesday: “No tough street cat but …
17/03/12: Another AlStrays transport has ended successfully, or almost, as Chris and Mick are now headed for the UK with one remaining dog. All the AlStrays cats, and Gitana my rescue dog were dropped off between 7:30 and 10 am in either Bruchsal or Wallau, along with Taru. Little Yorkie Sara was then met by her adoptants at a service station near Cologne at …
14/03/12: Another lovely photo of 2 very close cats. This is such a happy ending for 2 very special cats!
17/12/11: Some lovely new photos have just arrived from Germany today. “Very crazy Evelina in love with the cute gentleman.”
14/12/11: On Monday I was, while in Germany, able to make a very special visit to see Kai and Evelina in their new home. All the …
07/03/12: News today is that Evie and Kike have settled into their new home very well. The first night they were a little nervous and there was a lot of meowing and rushing around checking everything out. After a few hours however they did come for their first cuddles with their new Mum and Dad. A few days later their Mum reports that they …
Last night I received some lovely photos from Germany of Dina playing in her new home, so it really is time I introduced her and her brother Descartes. They are both Almeria street cats, rescued by Montse and they travelled to Germany on the 24.02 transport. They have a great home together with a lovely young couple in a wonderful apartment with a big terrace. …
06/03/12: Today I received another lovely photo of Simba and Leo in their new home!
15/02/12: You will hopefully all have seen the beautiful Lancelot on this blog and read his story, but one part of his life in Spain you have yet to know. Just after he was castrated as a young man, he managed to father 4 beautiful kittens with a nervous female at …
04.03.12: More lovely photos came in today of a very contented little cat, but the latest news is that Josie is now suffering from a chest infection (possible pneumonia), which is not good. Anke has advised a change of vet, as Josie’s adoptant’s current one seems very anti antibiotics. She is now on some but should have been earlier. She isn’t looking too sick from …
03/03/12: In the last hour I have received the first photos of Lizzy and James in their new home. They look GREAT and very relaxed! “I was finally able to take some pictures of James and Lizzy. They’re doing fine, but they are still kind of shy and they only allow me to touch them when they are hungry. I really love those two tigers.” …
We delivered Odin (now called Fizzy it seems) to his new owners in the UK Over the weekend for the www.pro-setter.org organisation.
Just received this email and photos: says it all really as to why we do this!
Today it is 3 years since Chris and I adopted Oscar, or ALMOST! It is 3 years since Oscar arrived, but the original story was that he was a foster kitten. I knew that he was going to stay as long as Mori loved him, and he did from the first. Oscar was only just 3 months old, and Mori became his surrogate father and …
27/02/12: Ok it is DEFINITELY time for an update on Peter, because his life has really looked up. Kerstin sent me some videos of Peter playing the days of his operation and he looked great. He recovered brilliantly, much more so than when he had his teeth cleaned here in Spain. I think this is because he is so much stronger now after months …
25/02/12: Kerstin sent me some lovely new photos of Salma relaxing at home, and we then exchanged emails about whether she was still looking for a home for Salma after fostering her for nearly a year. This is a difficult one as Kerstin has long-term plans for the future and a fifth animal doesn’t quite come into them. Salma however does seem to love her …
26/02/12 1100 The February 2012 transport finally ended at about 6pm last night when Chris and Mick handed Odin the dog over to his very happy adoptant. I am already planning for the next one 16.03!
25/02/12 1400: All the cats are now off the transport and many by now will already be with their adoptants or in their foster homes. Well done to Chris and …
AlStrays from a re-homing point of view IS principally about cats. I work with cat rescue centres and Katzenherzen, a charity in Germany, to re-home cats. Every so often however we all stray into new territory, and Gitana is one lucky dog that happened to walk up to the right person. In the past dogs in need from Almerimar have been able to go to …
14/02/12: Today some beautiful new photos have come in of Pedro, enjoying the snow and garden with his best buddy, AND life in general! We sometimes think that our Spanish cats might miss the sun when they travel to much colder Germany, but there are compensations! Pedro looks to be very happy and not feeling the chill at all, AND, let’s face it, for …
12/02/12: Taj and Mica didn’t get to travel to Germany last summer because unfortunately all the kittens at Matt’s went down with virus’s which they kept spreading round and round! We decided to give them some months to get over all of this at Matt’s before starting to re-home them. Now it seems that Taj and Mica have their chance of a forever home together …
08/02/12: Today some fantastic new photos came from Maria, Harvey and Greta’s Mum.
18/12/11: Last Saturday I was able to visit Harvey and Greta in their home, and it was really lovely to see them after about 2 years. Harvey was always a cool cat, but Greta has changed from being a slightly nervous girl, to being a calm relaxed cat, who was happy to be …
08/02/12: These 2 lovely girls actually found their forever home very quickly after their arrival in Germany. They were adopted by a friend of one of the Katzenherzen girls, and a couple of days ago I saw this lovely photo of them on Facebook. They are as you can see very happy. Yvonne tells me that they couldn’t have a better home and their parents …
07/02/12: AND now i have a lovely photo of Kenzie in his forever home with his new best friend, the very handsome Carlos! Of course Kenzie is very handsome too. They make a lovely pair!
01/02/12: Today I received some lovely photos of Kenzie from Germany. He is the beautiful cat that I rescued remotely and have actually never met! This happened because Chris drew my …
05/02/12: And now the latest photos below are of Portos & Daiki in their new home!
28/01/12: Today some more lovely photos arrived of Atos and Aramis in their new home. All is completely fine with them!
16/01/12: All 4 of these beautiful kittens arrived in their new homes on Saturday evening and their families loved them instantly! Aramis and Atos were busy exploring, and the …
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 …
29/01/12: Time for another update on Jack. All seems fine in his world, and his humans at least completely love him! “After a while it is time to send you an update on Jack. He fully enjoys his life in his new home. He is very human oriented and loves to sleep on my husband or me. Totally relaxed at that time, sometimes jumping from …
Mr O’Malley is a cool cat from the mountain village of Cobdar. He was born as a village cat, but has been fed from a young kitten by Susan, a kind English lady who has already helped me help a lot of cats on their way to a better life in Germany. Like a lot of cats from this village, Mr O’Malley is a siam-mix …
Shadow a beautiful siam-mix boy was rescue by Matt from the local vet as a tiny kitten with his sister Maya. Both kittens were on the point of being born when their mother was castrated so Matt took them and bottle fed them, knowing that the owner of their mother would not want them. Both survived and Maya has since been re-homed locally. Shadow’s trip …
A lot of the cats that I have been re-homing in the last 2 years have of course been kittens, or 1 year old cats, because they were the kittens from the previous year! but we do of course get abandoned or lost adult cats, and some are only rescued after they have spent some years on the streets. Grison I think had had a …
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. …
Juli and Milos are 2 more beautiful kittens from Montse’s cat rescue. They were first helped by a kind Spanish man who saw them and their friends outside a supermarket and fed them for some weeks before he took them to Montse. Juli was always quite nervous, so it was fortunate that the German family who fell in love with her photos asked for a …
17/01/12: Dick did find his forever home very quickly and travelled to Germany on the 02.12 transport. I now have feedback and the first pictures of Dick in his new home. “He feels very well and at home and is very happy with his two attendants for feeding, playing and so on… He is very tame and likes to discuss things with his parents, but …
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 …
23:00 Update: Now I have news of the girls in their new home: “Candy and Zoe have arrived safely in their new home. They already have been eating and drinking and have used the litter box. Candy is a little bit shy, she sniffs the environment and she can be touched, but when something is scary she is hiding under the table. Zoe is trusting …
Update 10:15: All Wallau cats unloaded. All fine. Transport is now heading for UK with 2 cats (for Holland) and 2 dogs. My AlStrays cats have all been delivered to Katzenherzen and will now be on their way by car to their foster homes and adopt ants. I await more news.
14/01/12: All the Bruchsal cats are now off the transport, including Algernon and Peter. All …
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 …
06/01/12: Now I have new years greetings from Hutch, his new best friend Enyo, and his parents: “Hutch is really well. Already he has become a really big cat. He eats like a horse without getting fat, and he likes to climb in the fridge in search of treats. He is also always hanging on our plates, looking at what we are eating, but …
29/12/11: Henrietta didn’t actually spend too long at Anke’s. Within a week she was off to her adoptant in Switzerland, who loved her from the start. Last night I received a lovely email from her: “Hello I am Johanna Verena Frei from Switzerland. I adopted Henrietta. She is a princess, I love her sooo very much, we are real friends. I never want to miss …
21/05/12: Susanne has sent 2 beautiful new photos of Franz, one with his buddies Tim and Tom. They look gorgeous all together. Franz had a little injury to his tail last week, maybe from playing in the garden, but Susanne is happy to report all seems fine now, and he is moving it normally again! Life is sweet!!!
20.05.12: Mila has a huge personality for such a tiny cat, and seems to be managing to charm us all, despite some quite bad behaviour! When I met her at Montse’s for a photo shoot she charmed me completely and I reported to Germany that here was a VERY tame friendly little girl. She IS tiny but also quite round, like a very big kitten …
We’ve been contacted by Kerry who has a dilemma, can anyone help? In Kerry’s own words:
“About 5 months ago or more, a stray cat came in my window in the night and had kittens. I couldn’t bring myself to put them out and have tried everywhere to get help. The big problem is that my neighbour poisons or stamps on the cats. He has just …
Moving can be a highly stressful experience for your cat, but it can also be an awful experience for their owners too if careful thought and planning hasn’t gone into the process. Hyperactivity and motion sickness can be real problems that can ruin the interior of your car as well as your relationship with your kitty. Whether you’re travelling in a second hand Audi …
06/05/12: Felix has become too macho for MaPu’s older boy Simba, so has switched foster homes! This has really made me smile, as it seems my sad, gentle boy has been engaging in some very hard play fights, which means he is feeling GOOD! This will I’m sure be down to the love and care and brilliant food MaPu has been giving him. In …
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