typing from a european computer so excuse typos etc
i helped/observed a volunteer from Nine Lives feed around 100 cats around the acropolis in Athens.Around 10 feeding stations, the cats know Elisa her smell, her steps, her food. She feeds them around four evenings a week, other volunteers feed them during the morning and evening. The same volunteers can see quickly which cats are new (and thus need spayed/neutered( and which cats need a vet care. the cats are regularly dewormed and defleaed. Lik the USA, price of s/n is too high for private citizens, and NineLives tries to help out financially pensioners who have a cat but no money to get them s/n.
There are A LOT of cats in Mykonos, unlike Nine Lives, there doesn't seem to be a well organized tnr program. There are three or four cats at the hotel I am staying, one has been TNRd *ear tipped. For the most part the stray cats we saw are of reasonable weight; the other few cats clearly should be euthanized. Sad. The cost of a fancy feast size can of cat food is around one dollar.
off to santorini animal welfare refuge tomorrow, just donkeys and dogs. SAWA has no one place for cats.
Ritz
i helped/observed a volunteer from Nine Lives feed around 100 cats around the acropolis in Athens.Around 10 feeding stations, the cats know Elisa her smell, her steps, her food. She feeds them around four evenings a week, other volunteers feed them during the morning and evening. The same volunteers can see quickly which cats are new (and thus need spayed/neutered( and which cats need a vet care. the cats are regularly dewormed and defleaed. Lik the USA, price of s/n is too high for private citizens, and NineLives tries to help out financially pensioners who have a cat but no money to get them s/n.
There are A LOT of cats in Mykonos, unlike Nine Lives, there doesn't seem to be a well organized tnr program. There are three or four cats at the hotel I am staying, one has been TNRd *ear tipped. For the most part the stray cats we saw are of reasonable weight; the other few cats clearly should be euthanized. Sad. The cost of a fancy feast size can of cat food is around one dollar.
off to santorini animal welfare refuge tomorrow, just donkeys and dogs. SAWA has no one place for cats.
Ritz