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March Report

Postby Symi Animal Welfare » 06 Mar 2012, 21:13

Thank you so much to all of our volunteers, especially during this particularly cold and wet winter!

This month's report comes from Peter, one of our winter feeding volunteers.

As an animal lover, particularly cats, when I arrived on Symi in 2010 I wanted to do something to help the animals over the winter so offered to help with the winter feeding programme. Melanie allocated me a regular feeding station and arranged for a 20kg bag and tins of cat food to be delivered to my flat.

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The first time I went to the allocated feeding station, the cats were extremely nervous and shy. They did not even come near the food that I had put out until I had moved well away from them. All through the winter, two
or three times a week I regularly went to the feeding station to delivery some more food. It was not until I had been going for a couple of months that the cats started to overcome their nervousness and feel comfortable with me delivering food.

Towards the end of the first winter one of the cats started "escort" me to and from the feeding station as if to say thank you. I passed the feeding station on a couple of occasions in the summer to be greeted with disapproval because I did not feed them. (I now have to avoid that area.)

On my first visit to the feeding station in November 2011, the cats all immediately greeted me as if there had not been a break for summer. Today, it is noticeable that as soon as I get near the feeding station, the cats
all gather round waiting for the food.

Peter
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