Haven of Hope Cat Rescue

21/10/2026

🙏🙏🙏

The injured kitten is with me.
I changed her name to Leyla - sounds softer and maybe it will soften her, because she definitely is a street kitten ( she was found near the bowling place and I know there is a colony of cats nearby ).
Very feisty too 😀, now that she gets pain relief. Not only hissing but spitting and scratching, so it will be fun giving her medication.
The traumatologist saw yesterday evening the x rays and decided not to operate. Leyla is about four months old only so the bones should heal on their own, even if the outcome might not be in perfect alignment, but to operate on such a young kitten brings always a big risk.
She will stay in a cage for two weeks with medication, after two weeks she will have another x ray to see how the healing goes.
She did not eat , p*e or poo yet, so not sure how that will go.
If anyone can help me with the vet costs, kitten food and vitamins, it would be a great help.
As always, I can only help those poor cats and kittens with your help

21/10/2026

Ooh how nice is all of this cooler weather 😻 I’m feeling back on track, ready to kick butt 💪🏽

Big thank you to everyone who has donated over the last few weeks, from monetary donations, to food & more litter trays, handmade hammocks, cat beds and houses and the surprise visits of towels and bedding when it’s impossible to get enough dry in the rain 😆

I appreciate you all, the monthly PayPal, GoFundMe & TikTok subscribers and those who send save up and send a large donation when they can. I couldn’t do it without you 🩷

& I’d like to extend a HUGE thank you to Sara Davies & mark who held a wonderful fundraising event to celebrate their wedding vow renewal and so kindly donated €500 of their money raised to the haven 🩷🙏 Sara is such a valued part of the cat community who works tirelessly to help all the cats in all the areas, thank you for everything you do for everyone all the time, you’re a superstar xx

20/10/2026

Halloween @ The Haven has begun 🎃 👻 Soraya Wanderlust

17/10/2026

After taking a bit of time to just silence my world, I’m feeling ready to get back to the grind 💪🏽 🐱

It’s been a heavy summer & I really just needed a moment of rest & re-grounding. Thanks to everyone who’s held me up these last couple of weeks 🩷

Lots to update on but for now, thought I’d just share some piccies of some of the current crew. The kittens still need homes pleaseeee 🙏 today was ear cleaning day with Alison which some thoroughly enjoyed & some absolutely did not 😆

Sterilisations begin next week for the not-so-kitten-anymore kittens but everyone’s vaccinated, ringworm is finally over (again) & they are sooo ready to find their forever 🫶

13/10/2026

Hola 👋

Just a quick note to say I knowww I have a lot of messages and calls to get back to, but I am in burnout & I am just about running on vital functions 🥴

I’m using what little energy I have to just work & survive whilst I try to refill my glass as month & quarterly ends at the same time was the straw that broke the camels back & tripped it off a cliff😅

So please forgive if I haven’t gotten back to your message yet, I will, I just need some time to get myself back on my feet as I’m juggling a lot with work & the cats and need a short period of peace 🫶🐾

26/09/2026

22/09/2026

I think I speak for us all when I say, all of us in 🐱 rescue have hit the exhaustion point for this year, I’m personally feeling it a lot more intense than I usually do as well.

Adoptions are at an all time low for us all, we are expected to keep saying yes, when our mind, bodies & purses say nooooo! Financially, physically, mentally, this kitten season feels like it has gone on FOREVER 😂

Some are out every morning, every evening trying to TNR or get that pregnant mama before it’s too late. Some are juggling 10,20,30,40+ kittens in our homes. Bottle feeding, socialising, colony feeding. Vet visits, medications, fundraising, shopping for supplies. Scooping poops & scrubbing cages. The list is endless for how far we are always stretched. 💸😴🪤💩🏥🍼

We are all seen, we are all heard & tbh I think we all need a bloomin’ good coffee & catch up. To offload but also, I really think we could problem solve some of our biggest problems and maybe once all of our 10% remaining brain cell capacity are put together, we might end up with 1 working brain between us🧠 😂

We will arrange something in the next couple of weeks, but until then, hold on ladies & gents…. Summer is ALMOST OVER, we’ve got this 🙏🩷🐾

Cat tax of a couple of the ringworm rascals.

21/09/2026

I stand corrected, Rory did indeed decide he wanted to try some slurry in a dish & it went exactly how I expected 👀😂🥴🫠

20/09/2026

The escap*e Mia returned this week after her little adventure across the golf course 😅. Wonderful couple Peter & Gillian had been looking after her in the garden for a few days & knew she was too friendly to be a stray 🥹 she was just across the golf course, about a 30 second drive away.

Thanks so much to Mich Cope who found their post on TalkQuesada forum, I picked her up the next day & popped her into quarantine whilst I work up the courage to trust her with the catio again. For now, she is office assistant until she proves she can be left unattended 😂

If you could offer this girly a home please reach out, she really really really really reaallyyyy deserves to have all the love and attention she so desperately craves 🩷

20/09/2026

After my little grump this morning, let’s get onto some cuter happier updates 🥰

Meet Rory & Slate. 2 neonatal boys who came in separately but will now live their wonderful lives together with Jenny when they are old enough.

Slate was found by a lovely couple on the street in Dona Pepa. He is easily 5 weeks old but came in weighing an awful 170grams which is what a 1-2 week should weigh😭 but he is healthy & happy, just severely emaciated and dehydrated.
Every day gets better with regular food & some supportive subq, hoping for a real positive turnaround but he will likely already remain teenytiny with a big head 😅🩶

& Rory was taken in by Jenny, also found alone on the street. A little younger coming up to 4 weeks, he is a very strong, very chunky boy who is an absolute maniac on the bottle 🤪. He has no interest in food yet, so he’s on bottled gruel now waiting for Slate to teach him how to lap from a dish🖤

Once they’re both weaned & stable on solids, they will go off to Jenny to grow together as adopted siblings and forever playmates 🫶😻 bonus pic of foster dad freddy doing his duties 🥹