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Tavira cats
On Friday the last 23 cats from Tavira came in for sterilisation.
In total we sterilised 165 cats in less than 10 days! The rainy weather threw a spammer in the works and we didnt manage the number we were hoping for. But we are very happy, 165 cats is a lot of cats.
In total 29 Tavira cats were pregnant with 127 kittens. We are happy that these kittens will never be born and live a hard life as a colony cat and add to the number of unwanted cats!
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Today another 19 cats arrived from Tavira for sterilisation..
We have had some sick cats come in this week, with pyometra, tumours, wounds.. they were all treated.
However today we had a dying cat come in, very very sick so we set him free.. and there was a calico cat with a rope around her neck grown in to her skin. the rope has been removed and she will recover at the clinic for a couple of days, and she was pregnant with 5 babies. We are so happy she came in and could be helped !
So now we are at 136 cats since 01 March which have been sterilised!
So sad Taqui Ginie Quinta would it have been better if the one that was dying come into foster for the last few days? Maybe I can help?
Thank god these cats have been caught, saved and put to rest. Amazing😍👍 Hope my three I brought today will be ok
Excellent work.
Tremendous! 😻😻😻
Well done!
❤️
Thank you 🙏🏻
Let’s continue where we left off last year..
We sterilised 200 pregnant cats and aborted almost 800 kittens.
From the 1st March 2023 until today we sterilised 15 pregnant cats and aborted 67 babies !
If you don’t agree to this kindly email us your address so we can drop off the mums and kittens!
When do people start to realise the enormity of the (colony) cat problems in the Algarve?
There are tens of thousands of unsterilised cats around, pregnant some as young as 4,5 months who will give birth when they are barely 5,5 months and babies themselves!
Have a heart and sterilise the cats, your cat, all the cats!
Please do not email us asking for help, we have very little money and we will help where we can. And currently we have 150 cats on a waiting list…
SOS will be doing a lot less this year as funds are low.
Ps the cat in the photo was pregnant with 7 kittens!
You do a great job ❤️ but please amend the ages.. gestation period is 63 days, so cats that get pregnant at 4.5 months old 😿 are giving birth at 6.5, not 5m.o. which is awful as they are not big enough to pass the kittens and can die from dead kittens inside 😭
Well done! We can all help if we want. I sterilize and then feed cats around me on my own whenever I can. I talk to portuguese to let their cats sterilize and where to go for. If we all work together and every body helps as good as he can we can make big efforts! Only I sterilized about 15 cats in two years, pregnant as well and I know others doing as well. It is such a great feeling to see these cats later on the street well fed and happy. About 50 streetcats that I know that have been sterilized by privat persons around here already made a big difference. But there us still a lot to do. Let's all help and support!
You are all angels and I will continue to donate to your efforts.💕💕💕💕
Well done! 👏
Today and yesterday another 40 cats came in for sterilisation from Tavira!
117 cats so far have been taken out of the reproduction cycle!
That's awesome 👏thank you. Are these also for adoption or are they feral?
You're absolute angels!
Beauties
Awesome ❤️
Lindos
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