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CAS News CAS Cat News them from spreading the disease. Any kind souls who would like to donate can do so here: https://www.facebook.com/donate/689217431565709/ While we spend a lot of time highlighting dogs in need of homes CAS is equally committed to the care of cats. To give you an idea of what we do, I am going to simply quote the October cat report from Fiona: Life on the streets for a homeless cat is one of constant danger and a tireless quest for food and shelter. If you would like to be part of our team helping to shepherd these lovely animals from the mean streets to loving, forever homes please contact Fiona via [email protected] Pipa and Mila Sidney was an already neutered cat who turned up at a holiday rental home between Nerja and Frigiliana. The holidaymakers established from neighbours that his owners had moved away deliberately leaving him behind to fend for himself. As it was late in the season they didn’t like the idea of him being left alone there after they departed so they contacted CAS. CAS helped them to get the cat ready for a home and then, once they decided to adopt him, put him into kennels until he could be transported to them back in the UK. Could you help? CAS is always in need of more volunteer helpers in a number of areas so if you have spare time to fill, please make contact! In particular, we are currently seeking someone who can help with fundraising and social media promotion. In addition, fosterers are always required to take short-term care of animals until a permanent home can be found. CAS provides fosterers with all they need: food, medicine, bedding, leads, etc., as well as advice at any time. Even if you are only here for few months a year, CAS would appreciate your help. For a no-obligation chat, contact CAS President Vera Newing on 95 252 9670. And despite the uncertainties of Brexit among other things, money is always needed to cope with the continuous flow of abandoned dogs and cats requiring help from CAS. If you could donate a little to help the animals, CAS would be most grateful. Bank: Cajamar Account Name: Costa Animal Society Account Number: 3058 0728 03 2720100283 BIC-Swift Code: CCRIES2A Pipa, Mila, Freddie, Felix and Evie were all young kittens found together with their mums in the Rio Seco in Nerja, away from anywhere where they could receive food. An urgent rescue was therefore undertaken in which the mums were both neutered and then placed in a well looked after colony and the kittens were taken and fostered. Unfortunately, they were found to all have ringworm so had to be kept isolated and treated. All were soon cured and now have loving homes. Tabitha was a tiny young kitten whose mum had been frightened away by a dog. When the mother failed to return to her, the dog’s owner contacted CAS for help. The kitten was collected and placed with a fosterer for bottle feeding as she was just days old. She’s now five-weeks old and has a home waiting for her. Bagheera was another little kitten who turned up abandoned by his mother at a holiday home in Nerja. Luckily, he was extremely tame and the finders were able to take some beautiful photos of him so he was very quickly homed. The two females (Tokyo and Marble) of the three tame kittens found at a cat feeding station in Nerja have now been adopted. But we are desperate for a home for poor Ruby who was found abandoned with her brothers. They were all placed in a foster home and the boys have all been adopted but poor Ruby is still waiting for a home. She is absolutely gorgeous, very loving, used to dogs and children and has now been neutered. Ruby Finally, the three young kittens that Kurt of Seacrest kennels found in a bag in a bin shortly before the bins were emptied went to Expedito’s vets in Nerja. They were all adopted together by someone who’d gone in hoping to adopt two but then couldn’t bear to leave the third one alone there. So another success. And there is now a fundraiser for the Mum and two kittens, each blind in one eye, from Capistrano who were homed and then found to have FELV (Feline Leukaemia Virus which is highly infectious to cats and spread via saliva, (grooming, sharing water, etc). They now need an enclosure to prevent 49