The Lucky Ones | Street Cats of Vis

Lucky Noki

Hi, I’m Noki. I was rescued from an empty lot behind the post office with a sister and two brothers. We were found covered in spaghetti, so were dubbed the pasta crew and named after different types of pasta. The group shot shows how we looked when we were first...

Lucky Rocky

Hi, I’m Rocky. I was on Vis living in car engines and trying to avoid being hit by a broom whenever I walked down the street. A nice lady let me live inside her house over winter, but I couldn’t stay. Don’t worry, though: I got lucky and went to a good...

Lucky Chloe

Chloe and her brothers Bob and Squirrel were found hiding in tall grass and the cracks between rocks along the side of a road at the top of Vis town. They were about four weeks old, emaciated, dehydrated, and showing symptoms of cat flu complicated by bacterial...

Lucky Bob

Bob, his brother Squirrel and his sister Chloe were found hiding in tall grass and the cracks between rocks along the side of a road at the top of Vis town. They were about four weeks old, emaciated, dehydrated, and showing symptoms of cat flu complicated by bacterial...

Lucky Squirrel

Squirrel, his brother Bob and his sister Chloe were found hiding in tall grass and the cracks between rocks along the side of a road at the top of Vis town. They were about four weeks old, emaciated, dehydrated, and showing symptoms of cat flu complicated by bacterial...

Lucky Avanti

A lot of Vis street cats get eye infections which, if left untreated, can lead to their eyeballs withering up into an unsightly mess. Avanti’s infection was caught before it became that severe, but he still needed the eye removed. That’s ok: he’s...

Lucky Dobby

This is Nurani, one of the owners of Ćiri Bili Bela in Split, with the white kitten she adopted and named Dobby. He’d been found wandering around near the ferry landing, dirty and with badly sunburnt ears. After cleaning, medication and some time out of the sun,...

Lucky Levis

On Friday, May 17, 2019, at around 10:30 in the morning, this street cat was shot by some sicko with an airgun in the center of Vis, probably from a window. He came limping home looking angry and confused, and went to lie down in the box on the terrace where he always...