03-Sep-07 - Theo of the Pirofani Restaurant in Kamini has very kindly (heroically considering how difficult a job to organise it is) sponsored the travel and accommodation for a vet to come to the island for the purpose of neutering and spading as many of the stray cats on the island as can be caught. VOLUNTEERS TO CATCH THE CATS ARE URGENTLY ASKED TO COME FORWARD between the 19th - 23rd September. Those who have pledged cash for the purchase of medicine are asked to contact Theo now.

If you can help, please phone Theo on +(30) 6976 420 965. Theo has boxes to catch the cats in for you to use. Felicity has volunteered her house in Kamini as the centre of operations and many people such as Myrto have helped with fund-raising to cover the cost of the medicine needed for the operations. Both male and female cats will be treated.

Volunteers are asked for their time not their money. Theo needs to have as many cats as possible caught and delivered to Felicity's house. Then the volunteer is asked to return the cats they have brought in, to the place where they caught them.

Please avoid catching cats that have had the corner of one ear clipped as this is the internationally recognised sign to indicate that the cat has already been neutered or spade.

Ideally the cats should start to be brought in the night before so the vet has enough operations lined up at the start of the day. It is important that the animals have not eaten for 24 hours prior to the operation.

It's the kitten time of year again on Hydra. Asproula (Whitey/Snowy, with 1 green eye and 1 blue eye that look really alien when you use a flash!) who is really only a kitten still herself, became a mother of four kittens yesterday (25th April 2007). Asproula is a stray/street cat of no fixed abode, but in spite of obvious physical abuse, (she's only got half a tail and that half has been broken in two places so it now sticks out at a funny angle), she is a very sweet natured, affectionate little cat with lots of character. Sadly attempts to have the island's vet neuter her were thwarted by the local toms who got there quicker than we managed. As she was already full of kittens the vet refused to operate.

13-Aug-07 - I was presented, yesterday afternoon inside the Four Corners supermarket, with two baby tortoises sitting in a tuperware bowl. I shrieked with joy, not believing they had actually hatched.

Back in April, Kelsey’s tortoise made her nest in the garden and buried all of her eggs (about 60 were counted). I had said to Kelsey that I would love to adopt the first one that came along, to have in my garden.