Help a Stray Cat

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

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Charity no: 1209966

🎉We’re 1!🎉Today we celebrate our 1-year anniversary as an official charity! Over the past 12 months, we’ve rescued, heal...
10/09/2025

🎉We’re 1!🎉

Today we celebrate our 1-year anniversary as an official charity! Over the past 12 months, we’ve rescued, healed, and rehomed so many animals who now have the second chance they deserve

None of this would have been possible without YOU – our incredible community of supporters, adopters, volunteers and donors. Your kindness has turned despair into joy, fear into trust, and loneliness into family!

✨ In just one year, we’ve achieved together:

🐈 Saved over 120 animals
🐱 Prevented countless kittens from being born on the streets
🏡 Found loving homes for 16 lucky cats

Every pawprint on this journey carries your love and compassion💜

Here’s to many more years of changing lives – one rescue at a time🐾

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for being part of this journey🙏🏻

✨Grace fka Mutlu✨Do you have a Grace shaped hole in your heart? This poor girl had a very tough time this past year. She...
03/09/2025

✨Grace fka Mutlu✨

Do you have a Grace shaped hole in your heart? This poor girl had a very tough time this past year. She spent months in a cage at the vets and then got adopted by a neighbour which only lasted 3 months before she was abandoned on the street. Sadly, it happened again in the space of 6 months! We’ve rescued her twice this year but decided to bring her to the office after she was diagnosed with Lymphoma on her leg. It doesn’t effect her as it’s just fatty tissue but it needs to be kept an eye on.

She’s one of 10 cats at the office at the moment and she’s finding it very stressful. We often find her meowing by the window.
So, she desperately needs a home of her own. She’s very affectionate with a little sass. She tolerates all the other cats but she’d do much better as on only cat.

She can travel as of 4 October but she doesn’t have a home yet. We cannot rescue more cats in need unless some of our current cats leave. When you help one cat, you’re actually helping two!

By adopting one of our cats, you will make room for another cat on the streets🙏🏻

Adoption Application link in bio💜

✅ Female
✅ 3-4 years old
✅ Microchipped
✅ Fully Vaccinated
✅ Spayed
✅ Very affectionate
✅ She tolerates other cats but would benefit from being an only cat
✅ Indoor only

Who would have thought an almost blind cat with a crooked head, a partially blind cat and a toothless cat from Istanbul ...
02/09/2025

Who would have thought an almost blind cat with a crooked head, a partially blind cat and a toothless cat from Istanbul would end ul living all the way in London together? They have the best parents we could have ever wished for them. And here’s what they had to say about adopting 3 Turkish boys from us😍

We are incredibly grateful to Help a Stray Cat for the amazing work they do in Istanbul, rescuing and rehoming stray cats across the UK and Europe. Over the past year, we’ve had the joy of welcoming three wonderful cats from them: Benji, Wesley, and Robin. Benji settled so quickly that we thought he would love a feline buddy, and Help a Stray Cat introduced us to his best friend from the cattery, Robin - so we adopted him. When Benji and Robin bonded so well, we knew we had space for a third cat, and Wesley soon joined the family. They all get on like a house on fire, each with their own unique personality, and they’re incredibly well-trained and well-behaved, especially considering their tough beginnings. Thanks to Help a Stray Cat, they’ve truly come back from the brink and brought immense joy and warmth into our lives. We’re so proud to be trusted by them, and we can’t thank them enough for the difference they’ve made.

Do you have a Jasper shaped hole in your heart? This gorgeous boy is our second white cat and he’s literally Albert’s do...
28/08/2025

Do you have a Jasper shaped hole in your heart? This gorgeous boy is our second white cat and he’s literally Albert’s doppleganger both in looks and character!

He can travel as of 4 October but he doesn’t have a home yet. We cannot rescue more cats in need unless some of our current cats leave. When you help one cat, you’re actually helping two!

By adopting one of our cats, you will make room for another cat on the streets🙏🏻

Jasper is incredibly affectionate and would benefit from an owner who works from home. He’s a velcro cat and loves being around humans.

Adoption Application link in bio💜

✅ Male
✅ 2-3 years old
✅ Microchipped
✅ Fully Vaccinated
✅ Neutered
✅ Stage 5 clinger
✅ Not tested with other cats
✅ Indoor only

26/08/2025

🌈Chan🌈

We first rescued this girl back in February. She had a wonky walk along with multiple other health problems. She had a respiratory infection, her teeth were in a terrible condition, she had a bad eye and she was intact. The vet initially diagnosed her with neurological FIP but after she failed to respond to FIP medication it became apparent that her wonky walk was caused by trauma to the head.

She was feral so after she had her rotten and broken teeth extracted and she got spayed we brought her to our feeding area. Unfortunately, she’s been missing for a week which can only mean one thing. We still haven’t even paid her vet bill yet and she’s gone. She was most likely run over by a car as her walk never improved so she was a little slow. We will never know what happened to her and we wish we could have given her a dignified burial. We’ve lost count of the number of cats we’ve lost in the past year. It never gets easier💔

✨Jax, Jupiter, Jinx and Journey✨Three weeks ago today, these four beautiful babies embarked on a 13 hour flight all the ...
23/08/2025

✨Jax, Jupiter, Jinx and Journey✨

Three weeks ago today, these four beautiful babies embarked on a 13 hour flight all the way to Vancouver, Canada.

Salena and Salma, who we know through the rescue community in Istanbul came here just to help these guys find their forever homes. We’ll be forever grateful to them for helping us rescue them💜

They’ve been taking amazing care of them for the past 4 weeks and are even considering keeping Jax and Jupiter!

Jinx and Journey will be available for adoption at some point but they’re happy to keep them however long it takes until they find good homes.

How life has changed for them! They were about to be sent to the local government shelter when we first found them. And here they are now. All the way in Canada living the lives they deserve🥹

✨William✨This gorgeous boy was taken to a vet along with his mother and 3 siblings when he was just 4 weeks old. His mot...
16/08/2025

✨William✨

This gorgeous boy was taken to a vet along with his mother and 3 siblings when he was just 4 weeks old. His mother was sick and their rescuer wanted her to be able to nurse her kittens in a safe environment. She was hoping to rehome William and his siblings when they were old enough. But she could only rehome one. As more and more time went by she struggled to release them back to the street. They were still kittens and she still had high hopes for them. But they got bigger and by this time they’d spent almost 6 months in a cage.

Everytime we visited the vets, there they were there, desperate to get out. All 3 siblings were now around 6 months old and they didn’t even have the space to walk around let alone run, play and just be like other kittens. They had never breathed fresh air, seen sunlight or stepped on anything other than the metal cage they had spent their entire lives in.

We couldn’t bear seeing them suffer anymore so we offered to bring them to our garden on the condition that they were neutered. They were terrified when they first came here. It was so heartbreaking seeing them like that. Ten days after they came it started heavily snowing in Istanbul and they all got sick one by one. Their immune systems were so fragile and they had zero survival skills. Despite having lots of cats in our care we knew they deserved better after everything they had been through.

William and his brothers Arnold and Danny are at a cattery now and they are able to travel to the EU and UK as of 4 August. Please consider opening your home to this gorgeous boy. He’s a little shy at first but he’s very affectionate once he gets used to you💜

✅ Male
✅ Just turned 1
✅ Microchipped
✅ Fully Vaccinated
✅ Neutered
✅ Affectionate
✅ Gets along with other cats
✅ Indoor only

✨Danny✨This very unique looking boy was taken to a vet along with his mother and 3 siblings when he was just 4 weeks old...
16/08/2025

✨Danny✨

This very unique looking boy was taken to a vet along with his mother and 3 siblings when he was just 4 weeks old. His mother was sick and their rescuer wanted her to be able to nurse her kittens in a safe environment. She was hoping to rehome Danny and his siblings when they were old enough. But she could only rehome one. As more and more time went by she struggled to release them back to the street. They were still kittens and she still had high hopes for them. But they got bigger and by this time they’d spent almost 6 months in a cage.

Everytime we visited the vets, there they were there, desperate to get out. All 3 siblings were now around 6 months old and they didn’t even have the space to walk around let alone run, play and just be like other kittens. They had never breathed fresh air, seen sunlight or stepped on anything other than the metal cage they had spent their entire lives in.

We couldn’t bear seeing them suffer anymore so we offered to bring them to our garden on the condition that they were neutered. They were terrified when they first came here. It was so heartbreaking seeing them like that. Ten days after they came it started heavily snowing in Istanbul and they all got sick one by one. Their immune systems were so fragile and they had zero survival skills. Despite having lots of cats in our care we knew they deserved better after everything they had been through.

Danny and his brothers Arnold and William are at a cattery now and they are able to travel to the EU and UK as of 4 August. Please consider opening your home to this gorgeous boy. He’s bonded with Arnold so we’d love to rehome them together💜

✅ Male
✅ Just turned 1
✅ Microchipped
✅ Fully Vaccinated
✅ Neutered
✅ Extremely Affectionate
✅ Gets along with other cats
✅ Indoor only

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