Saving Kitty Monica

Update: 1st September It’s been a month since Monica’s last update…  during the month of August she has continued regaining strength and feeling more and more comfortable at home. She is still very shy, but I have no doubt one

The rescue of the Mystery Cat, a real story

It was a Monday morning and my email inbox was boiling hot with people asking me to please help a cat whose four paws had somehow been amputated by some unknown criminal.
The poor cat was living on the streets, in a garden being fed by an “animal-lover”. He was in a terrible condition crawling on the floor and screaming for help.

Darwin the kitten: Survival of the fittest

Last weekend was a specially wet and miserable one in Istanbul (most winter days are like this here). Wind was blowing in all directions, some of our friends were heading to Bolluca to feed the strays but before that we