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Our founder Jacky gives her account of two full-on days trapping, neutering and releasing 14 females in colonies on the outskirts of Ermoupoli. This was generously funded by a supporter in the Netherlands and assisted by the local knowledge of our wonderful Syros neighbours! Jacky’s story It’s a bright sunny November morning on the Greek […]

Lonely Sirena is still patiently waiting for her new human family to come along. We’d hoped she would be installed on a sofa in a cosy home by Christmas, but sadly it wasn’t to be. So let’s see if the new year will bring her a new home! Sirena is a loveable 6+ year old […]

A member of our current crew, Susan, shares her experiences of volunteering at Syros Cats and why she is back for a second time! This is my second time here volunteering with Syros Cats. My experience the first time was so rewarding I just knew I wanted to come back. This time has been even […]

As winter approaches, the temperatures drop but our food bill rises! Our current monthly shopping list looks like this: 16x15kg bags of Charli biscuits, our cats’ staple diet, at €34/bag 200 cans of food at €0.82/can 1x20kg bag of specialist urinary food at €68 per bag 24 bags of cat litter at €5.50 per bag […]

We always love to hear how our cats and kittens are doing in their forever homes. It gladdens our hearts to think we’ve made a difference to these lives and it makes all the work worthwhile. Here are a few updates from Fernando, Carmencita, Catsou (now Simon) and Simone. Fernando From village life to city […]

We get many requests for help each week.  Some are straightforward and we can give advice, lend cages or make other suggestions. But the reality is that we’re overwhelmed. The size of the problem on the island far exceeds our physical capacity and stretched resources. Some concerned tourists and locals are understanding about our plight; […]

This kitten season, we have rescued no less than 22 kittens. Eleven of those were from our village of Kini, a sad but realistic result of less sterilising last winter due to lack of funds. The remaining kittens came from Ermoupoli, Finikas and Agathopes. On the positive side though, of those kittens rescued, we found […]

Regular readers of our social media pages may already know that we have been absolutely inundated with applications to volunteer with us. We are truly grateful that so many of you have shown genuine interest in the work we do here and are keen to help. And also that so many of you return! Thank […]

Today, we’re properly introducing a cutie : Shiro ! Shiro showed up in June, he was staying on the porch of a house close to the nearest bus stop, so we knew we had to try and get him as soon as possible. It was no piece of cake, why would it be anyway ? […]

Carmencita came to us in October last year, only a couple of days old and dumped near a bin. We bottle fed her and some other kittens that came more or less at the same time and she grew up with them, turning into this very cute and funny cat! She’s now 10 months old […]