Cat Rescue Mallorca – What to do?

Today (21st August 2023) – we took the 3 week old kitten whose mother had abandoned in the reeds at the side of our field to the vet as he had been happily ‘thriving’ on the baby cat food that Canis had advised us to feed him and then suddenly he was ‘not so playful’ and ‘not eating as much’.

Red Flags for sure… but we are not ‘Cat Professionals’ so at 11pm we Googled the symptoms and decided to ‘wait until the morning’ …. A ‘fateful decision’ that I hope anyone reading this will learn from…

After reading about Kittens in general – 20% of all kitten litters ‘die’ for many reasons, so to actually get your Kitten through to Adult life is an achievement in itself, whether stray or purchased.

Our Kitten ‘Leo’ who gave us 8 days of absolute joy and love had a bladder issue, we know this because of our emergency trip this morning at 5am to the vet who explained that his bladder was blocked and when the vet finally released him, he died in her hands…

If we had got there the night before ‘maybe he would have survived’ – who knows, as he had a ‘bladder issue’ … because he was only 3 weeks old and his immune system was not fully in place yet and he hadn’t had the start that he would have had with his ‘Mum’…..

So now we are left with 2 remaining Kittens that we found abandoned (from the same litter) in our garden 7 days after we had found Leo.

We managed to catch them and they are terrified and clinging to each other for ‘life’ … literally.

After Leo passing I panicked and realised ‘we are not Cat professionals’ – so who are on the island of Mallorca?

Where do you go when you find a litter of kittens or a stray cat in need?

My experience has been ‘telling’ to say the least…..

As a ‘charity’ you can accept donations ‘often hefty’ as companies have ‘tax relief’ for doing so and yet you can be an Animal Charity with about 10 animals and then turn down the rest… but still take donations?

On my ‘Cat Journey’ – I won’t mention names here, but I’ve been turned down flat … ‘we don’t accept cats’ said one, that advertises that they are a ‘dog and cat and other animals’ sanctuary all over Mallorca… So I asked ‘as a sanctuary – can you advise me then?’ – the abrupt response was ‘I don’t have a list of cat associations. I would have to search the same as you would.’

You would have thought that the ‘hefty donations’ they receive would have paid for at least a list of alternate help if they were turning people down…. obviously not….

And most others ‘simply don’t have room’ …

So what do you do?