Little Alice

Alice is a sweet three-month-old little girl. When she was found an orphan, she was much tinier than she looks in the pictures. For the past few months, she has received a lot of love and attention from some of HA’s volunteers, who managed to have her accept reconstituted milk for kittens as well as solid food. She really wanted to make it! And now she has a nice round tummy.

Carol from GAWF saw her recently and found her healthy and strong. After an adventurous trip from Hydra to Athens (she had never been on a Dolphin in her life …) she was taken by pet taxi (in the picture) to Lucille in Lagonissi. We can't thank her enough for everything she is doing to help our kitties. Lucille found her the home she deserved: last Sunday, Alice was officially adopted by a nice family who is going to give her all the care and love she could ask for. We will miss Alice on Hydra, but we are happy for her, and we wish her a beautiful life!

Midge

Here is the proof that a sad story can end happily. When Katherine and her husband found Midge (they called him "Gremlin") at the harbor one night, he was soaking wet and just skin and bones. They to him back to their apartment and fed him as much as he could eat, which was a lot! After three days, he looked much better and grew quite lively.

However, the landlord objected to having him in the apartment, so they were forced to take Midge to Takis's Park and leave him there. They came back to feed him two times, but he had disappeared. They left Hydra not knowing what happened to him.

Katherine and her husband were overjoyed to learn a year later that one of HA's volunteers had found Midge in Takis's Park. He went to live in a sponsors garden, but ended up contracting a nearly fatal flu. Through a team effort over the winter, espcially on the part of Valerie, we were able to restore him to health. Midge is now a happy house kitty living in a warm and loving home on Hydra.

From Silvana Bozzolini, June 2009

I love all animals and cats in particular. They are so clever, they have beautiful souls and sometime act like humans. A few years ago, on Hydra, I saw a poor hungry kitty. She was not far from a pebble beach, where also other cats had gathered. From my place to the beach it was a long walk, but I could not help bring some food to the sweet that appeared to me very thin and in bad health conditions. She was the first cat who came to me with a weep eye and hoarse voice.  In the evening I was chatting with the owner of a shop, when the lady just warned me that right behind me, a tiny white cat was looking for me. It was the same cute girl that managed to find me!!! I still wonder how she had been able to cover all that distance and show up next to me! She was more or less 3 months old. To make a long story short, I named her 'Naki' and adopted her without hesitation. Now she weighs 6 kilos and she is the queen of the home.

When she was a kitten she had a little black spot on her back, which eventually turned into a heart….Curiously, sometime before meeting Naki, I had created on my mother's grave a heart made of blossomed plants. My mother had never really loved animals during her life. I interpreted the appearance of the heart on Naki's back as a sign of reconciliation between my mother and my little friends.