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Here are our 4 fabulous KAR Christmas kittens, all dressed up for the occasion, wishing you all a very merry Christmas and all still looking for their furever homes.

They are (from left to right, top to bottom):

Deniz

Bugsy

Jagger

Loki

Please, please, please if you have room in your heart and in your home for one or more of these gorgeous kittens contact KAR on kartrnc@gmail.com or call into the Rescue Centre to meet them in person and give them a cuddle. The centre is open 7 days a week from 9am to 1pm.

The Rescue Centre should not be looked upon as a safe, permanent home for any animal. We rescue them, get them back to full fitness and then re-home them. They all need a family of their own to love and care for them and a home to keep warm in. It is very cold and wet up in the mountains now and not the ideal place for any animal though we do try our very best, with our limited volunteers and funds, to keep them safe and fed.

Reality check ……. the heating is on, so too is the tv, The Xmas decorations are up and the house is warm and cosy. The guests have eaten very well and are all settling down for an ” post dinner” snooze.

” Hi,

Handan has arrived. We are thrilled. Of course – I did all the emailing and worrying etc and of course …she’s an instant daddy’s girl! Typical!

She’s sniffing everything and keeps pitter pattering up and down the stairs. She absolutely loves watching TV. She’s been staring for about half an hour with her ears going up and down. She’s very into current affairs it seems!

She is absolutely stunning – even the staff at the Heathrow ARC commented how beautiful she is.

Thank you for taking care of her for all these years, I’m so grateful. We promise to spoil her lots and lots,

I’ll update again soon,

Lisa, Mark, Fozzy, Scooter and Handan xxx “

Just before she drops off to sleep Handan looks out at the night sky. High above stars are twinkling. ” I wonder if they can see these stars back at the KAR Center” thinks Handan. ” I remember way way back – in the heat of the Cyprus summers – lying on top of my kennel where it was a bit cooler – looking at the stars and making my wishes. Oh how hard i wished. And now all of my wishes have come true so there is nothing left for me to wish for.”

“Oh yes there is !!”

Handan sits up and looks solemnly up at the stars searching for the brightest one. Once it is in her sight she holds her breath and makes her wish — “Please please let my KAR friends be as lucky as me – let their future furever familes find them and bring them home. It doesn’t even have to be Hertfordshire – just a family and a home of their own”

Handan breathes out after she has made her wish – looks around at HER family and with a contented sigh she settles down to sleep – a dreamy look across her face.

Reality check

Up in Doggy Ave no 1

Handan feels that there is something in the air – she sniffs expectantly – no it is not food but most definitely something. Abby and Trev can sniff it too.

“What is going on Handan ?” they ask rather excitedly “Are we having visitors today to take us out ?”

Handan, with a shake of her newly coiffed hair, knowingly looks at them and announces “It is today – today is the day that i am leaving for the UK”

Abby and Trev don’t know how to react – they are happy for Handan but will miss her and her funny ways too. But they put on their “happy” face and run around barking with glee.

A fleeting look of doubt crosses over Handan’s face…. “Oh what is going to happen to me – will this “plane” be comfy – will i be safe – will my heart fit in with Hertfordshire”

With a quick shake (of her newly coiffed hair) Handan begins to get her box ready. They have told her that she has a box to travel in – but she wants to take her own box. Her memory box. Full of things to remind her of her KAR family – images of Abby and Trev – the smells of the forest especially after the rain when the sun comes back out, images (and smells !) of Elaine, David, Anthony, Yulihan, Julie, Jacky, Ian, Sue and all of the other wonderful people in the KAR family, the sound of the cicada, a picture of her kennel where she has been so happy……. There are so many memories Handan is worried that she will not have room for all of them – but she does. They are all packed away in her “memory box” to take to Hertfordshire with her.

With much barking farewells it is time for Handan to leave – before getting into her travel box she takes one last lingering look back at her KAR “family”.

With a shake (of her newly coiffed hair) and a shimmy she gets into her box. She calls out to Abby and Trev “I am going to miss you both – take care and keep practising for when it is your turn……….Goodbyeeeeeeee”

And away she goes – to her new life, in a new Country with a new family.

Closing scene ……..Handan is quite happy in her box waiting for her flight at the airport. She settles down on her comfy blanket and a little worried look passes across her eyes. This is the time – one of the times she thinks – that she can open her memory box and look back on her memories and feel comforted by them

A little shake of her head (and newly coiffed hair) “Oh i wonder if they will let me make a new memory box in Hertfordhsire – i do hope so “