The kitten season is upon us . . . I am receiving many calls about tiny kitts having been ‘abandoned’ by their mums . . . ”I don’t know what to do with them. I haven’t the time. What can I do? Will you please take them?” Unless you are certain that the mummy cat has met an untimely…
Should you come across an abandoned kitten, the easiest and best solution is to find a milk mother, a cat which has recently given birth. This happened to me today – I received a plea for help from Noel, a Belgian tourist, in Kuşadası for only a few days. He’d come across a cardboard box by a bin, in…
On 8 April we had a positive meeting with the new Mayor of Kuşadası . . . I gave him information about ARK and discussed how our volunteers have for the past 10 months done their best for the animals in Kuşadası Animal Shelter, despite continuing appalling conditions there – he suggested that we should meet very…
What a truly amazing and happy coincidence . . . I’ve just found out that 4 April, the red-letter day last year on which I finally collected ARK’s registration documents from Kuşadası Kaymakam, also happens to be World Street Animals Day! This, www.worldstrayanimalsday.org states, is the day ‘to show compassion, care and take action to help the 600m street animals worldwide’….
