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Our Rescue Centre is looking for part-time workers to regularly cover the hours of Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm. Duties will include but are not limited to cleaning the dogs and cats living areas and generally taking care of the animals. Transport is available from Girne (Kyrenia).

We are also looking for regular volunteers to act as “Meeters and Greeters” to help show our visitors around. These hours are 9am to 1pm.

If you would like to join Team KAR at our rescue centre please contact Elaine (Centre Manager) on 0533 863 1950 or the office by e-mail on kartrnc@gmail.com You don’t need to have done this sort of work before as full training will be given. You just need to love our cats and dogs and want to give them the best you can.

Do you remember our recent story about Midge who was re-homed but ended up back at the centre due to no fault of their own?

Well Midge (now Lucky) is in his new home in Canada and we have had the following update from his new owners:

“This boy has adapted very well to his new family. Very energetic and full of life…. We love him so much. p.s. he goes crazy when he sees squirrels! “

Lovely happy furever after home for Lucky

It comes as a massive blow to us when we are faced with incidents that seem, to us, as if everything that we have been trying to do has been ignored. Sadly this week has seen us upset, angry, questioning why – why has this been done ??? !!!

Very recently after hours spent looking we found (after being tipped off) MANY dogs DUMPED deep in the Besparmak Mountains. They had all been DUMPED together.

Amongst them was this poor little chap.

Apart form the cruel malicious act of DUMPING him (along with the others) is the awful knowledge that he must have been suffering for ages. How much pain must he have been going through before we found him.

How could ANYONE have ignored his suffering and not taken him for treatment ?

How can ANYONE have starved him so much that we can count his little bones ?

It simply is, to us, beyond comprehension.

He is in a safe place now, with us, and he is receiving urgent medical attention. He has people with him now who will help lessen the pain from his missing nose , will have his Leishmania controlled, will treat his Ehrlichia, will build him back up, will love him like he has never been loved before, will clean and bathe him as he needs – we will just Care – because it is what we do. But all the while we are doing this – there are others out there who will continue to treat animals in such a cruel and evil way.

We have named him Buttons – he is approx 1 year old and as you can see from the pictures he is very poorly. He has a long bumpy road to recovery but we hope that we can help him get there. One day in the future our Buttons will be looking for his Cinderella and Prince Charming to be his new “family”.

In the meantime if you feel that you want to contribute to his care and treatment then please donate as little or as much as you can. You can donate via our website www.kartrnc.org or by into UK Bank ( Bank Details: HSBC UK: 40-21-02 Account Number 11364812 IBAN No:GB94HBUK 402102 11364812

BIC No: HBUKGB4131B)

please mark your donation “For Buttons”

We are trying to establish exactly who dumped the dogs – enquiries are being made in the hope that SOMETHING will be done about it ??!! But for now we are making visits, into the mountain, to feed them and check them over for any health problems – which if found we will deal with.

Well the scores are in and they have been checked and verified and we are very pleased to announce that during the month of September, the KAR Clinic spayed and neutered a total of 71 street kitties! That’s 41 females and 30 males which equates to goodness knows how many unwanted kittens that will not now be on the streets.

For further information about our Street Cat Neutering Scheme please contact the office by email on kartrnc@gmail.com

We were absolutely thrilled to receive this photo of Mini in her new favourite happy place (Judith’s lap). What a fabulous happy furever after photo.

A big thank you to Sally and Graham for their generous donation. This has helped us enormously with our on-going washing machine problems and helped to clear some of our vet bills. We are so grateful to all our supporters and friends for their continued assistance during these difficult times. Thank You.

Our Rescue Centre is in desperate need of part time workers to regularly cover the hours of Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm. Duties will include but are not limited to cleaning the dogs and cats living areas and generally taking care of the animals. Transport is available from Girne (Kyrenia). We had a great team at our Rescue Centre who worked tirelessly throughout the Covid crisis and we are so very grateful to them, however as the universities have now re-opened they must continue with their studies and we have no-one to take their places through the week.

We are also looking for regular volunteers to act as “Meeters and Greeters” to help show our visitors around. These hours are 9am to 1pm.

The Rescue Centre staff shortage is having a knock on effect in other areas of our work. We are having to cancel our planned cat catching/neutering scheme this Thursday as members of this team will be needed to work at the Rescue Centre that day.

If you would like to join Team KAR at our rescue centre please contact Elaine (Centre Manager) on 0533 863 1950 or the office by e-mail on kartrnc@gmail.com You don’t need to have done this sort of work before as full training will be given. You just need to love our cats and dogs and want to give them the best you can.