Helping Algarve's Waifs and Strays

Katy and I are new to blogging, but we're no strangers to helping the homeless animals here in the Algarve. Barely a week passes without Katy finding a stray animal or getting a call from someone who needs help with an animal they've found or need help to find a home for.

I should have known Katy and I would end up helping waifs and strays when Katy fell in love with a kitten found in the road during a rainstorm who then became her first permanent resident.

Word must have spread amongst the local animals as not long after Katy took the kitten home, we had a visit from a little blond canine bundle of fluff. He showed up at the office and wasn't going to take no for an answer. Eventually he was allowed to lie quietly on the floor, and he was convinced he was on to a good thing after feasting on lunch scraps and enjoying lots of tickes and tummy rubs. Flokka as he came to be called was eventually re-homed in Germany which was just as well as we were running out of places to hide him from the boss!

Next came Libby the street dog who used to show up at our office in Loulé at lunchtime for her daily meal of dog biscuits and table scraps, she never let us stroke her, but we could see in her eyes that the food we gave her was a lifeline. Unfortunately a month after delivering a small litter of puppies, Libby was found dead at the truckers yard across the road from the office. She'd died in her sleep which was a sad end to a life full of hardship and neglect.

Since Katy and I no longer work together, the animals have stopped showing up at the office, but that doesn't stop stray animals crossing her path. April saw Katy bottle feeding a litter of kittens who had been left in a plastic bag at the animal shelter in Loulé. Bottle feeding is great fun except when you have to get up at 2 o'clock in the morning! Just as the kittens were homed, Katy found two puppies, Molly and Henry on the wasteland near Alisuper in Almancil. Puppies are always cute, but these two are little crackers, I'm happy to say that they're on the verge of being rehomed and we'll update the blog with details as soon as they've been collected by their new owners.

What with kittens in April, and puppies in May, I wonder what June has in store for the SOS Algarve Animals team?