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Summer Report

Postby Symi Animal Welfare » 26 Jun 2012, 14:30

First, we have news of the chance to win a lovely prize!

This original painting of the famous kitten Jack from the Sunrise Kafenion in Chorio by Corinsh artist Sarah Bassett has been generously donated by our good friends at Symi Dream to raise funds for SAW.

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Raffle tickets are on sale at the Sunrise Kafenion or from SAW volunteers on the island at a cost of just one Euro each.

For those not familiar with Sarah Bassett's work, this is a little bit of information from the Cornwall Artist Index:

Born in the West country, Sarah now lives in Penzance where she paints mainly subjects in natural history and landscape. She is also a trained potter and worked in ceramics prior to her return to Cornwall. She graduated from Ravensbourne School Of Art in painting and pottery.

The raffle will be drawn on October 31st 2012 and all the proceeds go directly to Symi Animal Welfare. Good luck!

And now to the news report:

At the start of the summer we were very pleased to welcome back Martin Bilson, a vet who had previously visited us from the UK and some years ago had held surgeries on Symi.
He was able to bring us some vet medications which we had ordered to add to our stock here which does become quickly depleted, especially at this time of the year.

At a recent commitee meeting in June we discussed the vet options, as there has been no veterinary surgery for more than a year now. However, due to having received a substantial
donation recently we are hoping it will be possible to organise a vet visit this year, perhaps in October, all being well.

This generous donation also enabled us to take cats over to Rhodes in mid-June.
Two of our SAW team members Melanie and Suzan, assisted by another volunteer, Rhiannon, took six cats for neutering and other medical treatment, working with two vets in Rhodes who have always been very understanding of our 'island situation'.

We were pleased to have the kind co-operation of the boat crews who helped us to carry cat boxes on and off the ferries and the very few taxi drivers in Rhodes who will transport cats in boxes!
All our cats behaved very well, with a very little 'miaowing', even though they did attract quite a lot of attention from foreign visitors and locals too!
We are pleased to report that the whole operation was a complete success and we didn't mind that it was a long hot tiring day for us. It was the sense of achievement that really counted! All the treated cats are doing very well.

In the Greek Islands we have had mid-summer temperatures already in June. It's that time of the year when our cats look for a shady place to sleep during the hot hours of the day, in the slightly more cool temperatures of the evenings they venture out in search of some food, and at that time can be seen around the bins areas. Cats are survivors and quickly learn where the nearest source of food is, be a taverna or restaurant or the rubbish skip!
However we can all help the feral cats of the island by providing them with fresh drinking water, so important when it's hot, cats do need to drink to avoid dehydration and even if it's just a used plastic food container placed in an appropriate spot it will be much appreciated by any passing cats and could be a real life-saver for young kittens, who after being weaned really need to drink water.

We would like to remind all our visitors that we are here to give advice and to help with any animal problems during the summer months on the island.

Suzan and Hazel
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