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Postby Symi Animal Welfare » 21 May 2013, 10:49

Hello friends and supporters, we apologise for being so slow in publishing an update re our activities on the island. Time simply rushes away! So, to keep you all in the picture, here is the latest news:-

A couple of weeks into the new holiday season, a number of early visitors have remarked on how healthy overall, the street cats are looking. The extended winter feeding programme could well have played a part in that, volunteers took food 2 or 3 times per week to all main residential areas from November until April. For the 3rd year running, even cats in the Nimborio area received food. Thanks to your donations, it was possible to distribute extra foodstuffs to volunteers responsible for the larger cat communities in Pedi for example, where 30 or so cats are cared for by 2 residents. We have been unable to let you know the final amount spent on cans, pasta and biscuits because the shop-owners are being tardy for some reason?! Our main supplier however, Sotiris in the Village, has told me only today, that he now has a bill for us! We'll be letting him have payment later in the week. He, along with Hatzipetros supermarket in Yialos, each donated food towards the programme.

Even though there were quite a lot of boat cancellations due to bad weather during the winter, we managed to take 28 cats over to a vet on Rhodes. This particular vet had agreed back in October, to come over here to hold a much needed surgery, but, for a number of reasons, this never happened unfortunately. She therefore came up with another idea which was that, we send cats over to her, they would be collected from the boat and then returned later in the day after neutering. However, even though the animals would be safe inside cat-boxes, the boat company insists that they are escorted by humans, this is written in their rules and regulations. Several volunteers therefore escorted cats, up to 5 at one time, to the surgery over the winter 28 in all.

Another initiative, this time by the Mayor and his council, which was enforced a while ago, is that all dogs be registered at the council offices. The residents who went along to register had to provide evidence of regular inoculations and pet-passport, we were each given a printed sheet stating the law re leashes, fouling and cruelty issues.the 'famous dogs' ie Delfi, Kookie and Loulou all are now on-record!! Hopefully, this registration will encourage responsibility too?

We would like to say thankyou for your continuing support and for donations received during the winter. If you're on the island over the summer months, we'd love to meet you. Hazel, Suzan, Claudia, Tove and Melanie xxxx
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