Secrets and scandals
Vis is a beautiful tourist destination enhanced by charming street cats, but what happens to street cats when the tourists leave? It’s not pretty. Cats who’ve become dependent on food from tourists and local restaurants open only during tourist season are...
Fostering
Part of getting a cat ready for adoption is seeing how it adapts to an indoor environment with humans. Is the cat socialized and affectionate? Will s/he use the litter box? In addition to house training and socialization, a cat waiting for adoption may have special...
Myths about sterilization
Many people believe in myths about spaying and neutering. Here’s a reality check. Myth: I should wait until the cat has one litter before getting her spayed. Reality: it’s best to have female cats spayed before they’re sexually mature (so before four months old) to...
Lucky Mila
Mila is a cheeky girl who knows what she wants and what she doesn’t! She’s very gentle, and enjoys the company of other cats. She’s playful, but quiet. She may have further health problems due to her history and FIV status. We first meet Mila while out...
Adopt Koffi
Koffi lives at the Vis rubbish dump, the most extreme of the colonies we care for. He was surely abandoned, because when we met him at around six months old, he was relatively friendly, meaning he must have gotten some socializing as a kitten. While he seems perfectly...
Lucky Zi
Zi came to us completely blind and unsociable. Despite receiving 10 eye drops per day for several months, he had to have both eyes removed as they were getting progressively worse, causing him pain and he still had no vision. Sadly, he also tested positive for FIV....
Lucky Billy and Felix
We were contacted about Billy as he had a badly broken leg that had a small piece of bone sticking out of the skin. It took a long time to catch him and the broken leg had healed by then, but he still needed the piece of protruding bone removed. Once that was done, he...
Lucky Mouse
Mouse came to us in a cardboard box with Bug and Kaha on April 3, 2020. Their mother had died, and they were just three days old. Mouse got his kitten name because that’s what he looked like at that age. We had hoped to put the three new kittens with a lactating...
This is Helper Cat. She'll show up in places where we need help, or where people are helping us. For example, the people behind this instagram account help us with fostering and adoption in Germany.