The Massive Continuity of Ducks

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These Greek Island cats need your help!
Marie, a member of the German cat message board Katzen-Forum.de where she is known as Anjuli, has been active in animal welfare in and around Berlin for many years. When she went on holiday to one of the many beautiful Greek islands, she encountered something she could not look past.
Near a small Greek village on the island Andros, there were countless of strays, some of them in pitiful health conditions. She found an older male with ears blackened from skin cancer; three little kittens, abandoned and motherless; a young female, near-death sick and in dire need of medical care.
The source for these abysmal conditions isn’t so much the fact that nobody wants to care for them or feed them - cats are skillful hunters, and the climate on the Greek islands is favourable - it is the fact that none of them have been neutered and that their numbers are rising drastically with each new female that can become pregnant several times in one season.
Marie therefore decided that she needed to do something to help these cats and to - probably not end but - drastically reduce their misery by neutering the females. Some cats also received medical treatment with the help of a vet close-by, but naturally, funds are limited and Marie cannot save them all.
In order to help them - not just immediately but long term - Marie requires financial aid. She is currently not working for a welfare organisation but has taken on this project privately, with her own funds, time an energy when she spends all the vacation days she can take to travel back to Greece and care for these cats.
Marie couldn’t leave the dangerously ill female whom she had named Liza (picture 2 above) in her life-threatening condition. With some medication and care by an acquaintance in Greece, her health was improving quickly. On Marie’s last visit, she took Liza back to Germany. Liza has been negatively tested for FIV, vaccinated and, just yesterday, neutered. As soon as Marie has found someone for her, she’ll be given away to a forever home where she can spend many years happy and healthy.
One of the cats of the pack has already been neutered on Andros and returned to her pack. It is difficult to catch the females at the opportune moment since many of them are already pregnant or in heat, but Marie’s objective is to have as many of them neutered as she can.
Marie knows that she cannot end the desolate conditions many of those cats live under, and she knows that there are many more places just like the island where she encountered these cats, but she had to start somewhere and do something to at least improve life for these beautiful creatures.
If you want to help Marie and help those cats, you can donate to her PayPal account: catsatandros@gmail.com
If you have any questions, you can contact me any time. Same if you’d like to adopt a cat from Greece, though that would only work if you are a German resident since Marie is taking the cats to Germany first.
If you cannot donate, please signal boost this post. I, Marie and the many cats on that island will be very grateful.
Some more images and info after the break (some of them are a bit shocking, but I wanted to add it so you can see the condition some of those cats are in)

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This worth spreading around. @petermorwood and I have met cousins of these cats (on the island of Hydra) and they live lives of (mostly benign but not always) neglect. Anyone who’s helping them is doing a terrific thing.