About Us ~ What We Do
 

In everlasting memory of a special little lady. Our dear daughter  Kerry Ann Hyland. Dearly loved ... Sadly missed...

http://kerry.hyland.muchloved.com

                                                       

My husband, daughter, and I moved  to the Argolida region of Greece in 2005 (from UK) along with our three-legged rescue cat, "Jess"
We lived in a small town for a while, having bought a small apartment. It wasn't long before we found our first rescue kitten; abandoned at around three weeks old.
Shortly after, a second kitten, only a few days old, left alone to die during the winter.
Then came our first rescue dog, a stray that was at risk of being poisoned by a local who didn't want the dog to sleep outside his rental apartments.

With three rescue cats, and one big dog, we decided to sell our town apartment in the hope that we could find a small property with a garden.
After much searching we finally found a small traditional style Greek house with large garden for sale. It had been on the market for a long time, as it needed much work. No one had been brave enough to buy it! We took one look at it and knew that if we could completely renovate the small house, the large garden would be perfect for our new ever expanding furry rescue family.

Well, we took a huge risk and bought it! We had a limited budget and desperately needed the space - we had just found three very young abandoned puppies, dumped at rubbish bins on a beach...

We moved in with very little mod cons, limited electricity and water, leaking ancient plumbing and leaking rotten windows and roof. The garden was three foot high thistles and weeds, with piles of building rubble and rubbish.
I must admit, we did wonder what the hell we'd done! Especially when we had our first rain storm, and had to use all our towels to try to mop up the flood!

After much begging, a friend let us rent a mobile-home, we had it sited in our garden so we could temporarily move out of the house to start work. The mobile-home didn't have a loo, so hubby plumbed one in, in the shed! The one in the house needed to be ripped out, along with everything else so new concrete floors could be laid.

We were in the mobile-home for about 7-8 months. During that time we had rescued yet another young abandoned puppy, and two very young stray kittens that had sadly lost their mother...
We moved back into the house once it was somewhat habitable.

Well, we're still here! After a lot of hard work, most of the house is finished, we've had to do the work over time, work in progress...
The furry rescue family continues to grow. We've since lost some much loved furry friends too ... very sad ... gone but never ever forgotten...

As well as sharing our home with many rescued cats and dogs, we also find good loving forever homes whenever possible, here in Greece and abroad.

We provide care, food and water for street strays as often as we can. Although some summer tourists sometimes feed them, those that do survive, then often face a lonely winter with very little or no food.
Sadly many cats and dogs are poisoned through the winter months...
Some die from starvation, illness, disease, others are killed on roads etc.

When we can, we also foster sick/injured cats and dogs for other care givers who have found homes for strays, or are going abroad for re-homing.

All rescued cats and dogs are neutered/spayed as soon as possible, as soon as they are old enough for the operation, or when they are healthy enough to undergo the operation.

We've also had the very distressing task of taking seriously injured/sick dying cats and dogs to the vets to be put to sleep. Sadly, it's just too late for some ... all we can do is end their suffering and let them go... site-seek.jp

We do not receive any financial help. All our work and time is voluntary, funded by ourselves from our own personal limited income.