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UK registered charity helping stray cats in Turkey by providing food, medical treatments & homes in the UK, EU and US🇬🇧
Rescues available for intl.

adoption
Charity no: 1209966

29/09/2026

✨ Adopt Simone✨

This beautiful girl, Simone, used to live on an alleyway in our neighbourhood. She loved people so much that she would happily follow anyone who climbed the stairs, going up and down alongside them.

She would often try to follow people into nearby buildings, simply longing to be close to humans. Sadly, one day, while trying to enter our building, a neighbour kicked her and broke her teeth. That was the moment we knew we could no longer leave her to fend for herself on the streets.

Today, Simone is safe and she is ready to travel to the UK. 🇬🇧

All she needs now is a loving family who will show her that people can be kind, that she is safe, and that her difficult past is finally behind her. Simone deserves a warm home, gentle hands, and a lifetime of love.

Please consider opening your heart and your home to this very special girl. She has so much love to give. 💜

✅ Female
✅ Microchipped
✅ Vaccinated
✅ Spayed
✅ FIV/FeLV negative
✅ Extremely affectionate
✅ Very playful
✅ Gets along with other cats
✅ Indoor only

26/09/2026

✨Meet Perry✨

We found this beautiful girl lying almost lifeless by the side of the road back in April. She was so lethargic that we were able to carry her to the vets in our arms.

She had a respiratory infection, rotten teeth, and she was in heat. Once she made a recovery, she was spayed and have all her teeth extracted.

The good news is that this toothless girl has been adopted. She’s going to travel to her new home in December. We can’t wait to see her finally live the life she deserves☺️

23/09/2026

✨Adopt April✨

Beautiful April has had such a tough life on the streets, but despite everything she’s been through, she is the sweetest, most affectionate girl.

We recently took April in after she developed a terrible ear infection and an ear polyp that needed treatment. But when we spoke to the locals who knew her, we discovered something heartbreaking.
A few months ago, someone had kicked April so badly that her spleen ruptured. 💔

After hearing what she had already endured, we knew there was absolutely no way we could return her to the streets once she recovered. April deserves to finally know what it feels like to be safe and loved.

Despite everything humans have put her through, she still adores people. She’s incredibly affectionate, playful and full of personality — and now all she needs is a family of her own. 🥹

✈️ April will be ready to travel to the UK in approximately 3.5 months.

Please consider opening your home and your heart to April. After everything she has survived, we would love nothing more than to see her spending the rest of her life safe, spoiled and loved. 🏡🐾

Please share to help us find April her forever home. 🙏🏻

21/09/2026

✨Meet Bear✨

This little boy is one of our most heartbreaking rescues to date.

We found him wandering alone in the middle of the street, clearly confused. His head was tilted, he kept circling, and we knew immediately that something was terribly wrong.

We rushed him to the vets, where we were told he had most likely been kicked in the head. His ear canal is ruptured, which is causing the head tilt. He is almost completely blind and he is also deaf. He was just 7 weeks old when we found him.

Despite everything he has been through, he is the sweetest, most loving little boy. He had an MRI to understand the full extent of the damage. Unfortunately, the MRI revealed that the damage is permanent. But this doesn’t stop him from living his life to the fullest. He’s currently in our office and he is thriving despite his disabilities.

He can travel in 4 months time. Please consider opening your home to him🙏🏻

 

10/09/2026

✨Meet Clementine✨

We found this little girl all alone by the side of the road. She had a runny nose, but what worried us most was the severe damage to her left eye—most likely caused by someone kicking her.

Despite treatment, her eye continued to swell and sadly had to be removed. She’s only three months old, and she has already endured more pain than any animal ever should.

Thankfully, she crossed paths with us. She will never have to return to the streets again. We are drowning in vet bills, so please consider making a small donation towards her surgery.

Every donation, no matter how small, will help us continue saving vulnerable cats like her. 🙏🏻💜

30/08/2026

💔We desperately need your help💔

Our vet bill is currently £11,000 and our vet no longer wants to work with us. They have even threatened to take legal action if we don’t pay this amount by the 10th. Our rescue efforts have reached a level we simply cannot keep up with, and we’re terrified of having to say “no” to the next cat who needs saving.

Every day we receive messages about injured and sick street cats. Walking away from them breaks our hearts, but without donations, we have no choice.

We know times are difficult, but if everyone who sees this post donated even £2, it would make an enormous difference.

Please help us continue saying “yes” to the cats who have nobody else.

🙏 Donate via the link in our bio or send us a message if you’d like to help in another way.

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to everyone who stands beside us. We couldn’t do this without you. 💜🐾

05/08/2026

This little one was just 2 months old when we found him with a broken front leg. 💔

He needed surgery to have a pin placed in his leg, but he recovered beautifully and is now thriving in our office. At just 4 months old, we simply couldn’t bear the thought of putting him back on the streets.

This week he’ll be microchipped and vaccinated, bringing him one step closer to finding the loving home he deserves. 🩵

The only thing missing... is a name! 🥹

What do you think we should call this handsome little boy? Drop your suggestions in the comments! ⬇️

24/07/2026

Lately, we’ve been finding cats with some of the worst neurological FIP symptoms we’ve ever seen. 💔

When we found this girl, her little body was so stiff that she was just lying helplessly in the middle of the street. Every time she tried to get up, she would lose her balance and fall back down. We can’t imagine how long she had been struggling like this before someone finally stopped to help her.

Neurological FIP is incredibly expensive to treat, and cats this severely affected need GS injections. Each bottle costs £40 and only lasts a few days.

Right now, we have 4 cats undergoing FIP treatment, and we already owe £630 just for their FIP medication.

We couldn’t leave this girl lying in the street, but we desperately need your help to keep treating her and the others in our care.

Even a small donation of £2, £5 or £10 makes a difference. Please help us give them the chance to recover and live the lives they deserve. 🙏🏻💜

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