Here’s the latest news from Symi Animal Welfare.
“Finally, we are seeing more sunshine than rain and the island’s cat population is ‘coming out to play.’ Those which have survived the awful weather conditions of the last few months can be seen basking in the warm rays or chasing after imaginary butterflies or birds, the cats like the people have suddenly come to life once again. Most of the feeding supplies have long since gone but we ask volunteers to at least try to provide a twice-weekly meal at their feeding-station until after Easter; we are currently in the Lent period so any meat scraps are few and far between, however, pasta & biscuits are gratefully received by the bin-cats.
Slowly, restaurants & businesses are re-opening and many of the owners tend to put food out for their local cats as do returning residents.
This year, we are going to ask some of the business owners to keep a water-bowl filled up near to their premises – the warmer it gets, the greater the need for available fresh drinking water is. One of our supporters who has a summer house on the island, has kindly offered to donate a number of suitably-sized plastic containers for this purpose.
As you are aware, our work depends entirely upon donations so we were delighted to receive one from Australia this week. Yvette Berkeley, the volunteer vet who visited Symi at the end of last year mentioned Symi Animal Welfare to one of her surgery clients and she contacted us to find out how to make her donation. She loved our website www.symianimalwelfare.org and just how easy it is to make a donation whether large or small. We will be ordering a specialised cage, recommended by a colleague at Greek Cat Welfare, useful for both nursing & catching feral cats, paid for thanks to this generous, distance sponsor.
Tove, our vet-week co-ordinator and her husband aren’t too well at the moment, so their traditional, early Spring return to Symi has been delayed. Last November when they returned to Denmark, she took back a kitten she’d been caring for since birth – Daphne is thriving apparently in her new, flower-filled garden. Please join us in sending Tove & her husband Ib, best wishes for a speedy recovery……Melanie, Suzan, Claudia & Hazel”
