CumbreCats TNR and Rescue

 BIG THANK YOU TO SOME LOVELY LADIES...   Tina, Trudi and myself met with some lovely ladies who took some time out of their holidays to meet with us and have a coffee and purchase cookbooks in order to aid our fundraising efforts for the care of our cats on Cumbre del Sol. They were all wonderful and looking forward their future when they will move to Cumbre full time to live and become part of our community. We will welcome them like family when that time comes. I also want to Thank some neighbours who donated some money last month over PayPal. The funds were going to aid another cause but it was in the end routed to our cats. So, thank you to those folks who were mostly anonymous.  We will be hosting Arts & Crafts Fundraiser Events the Last Saturday of every month - starting in September till end of 2021. These events will bring awareness and support to the creative community on Cumbre del Sol plus also we will have raffles in support of the Cumbre Cats!  ENJO...

ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY SUMMARY IT HAS BEEN A PRODUCTIVE YEAR. Together with the fantastic support and help from our community cat lovers, the CumbreCats Trapping Team has achieved greatness.  Here are our numbers - Cats Trapped, Neutered & Returned Begonias: 18 Encimas: 10 Girasoles: 21 Magnolias: 14 Monte Cala: 28 Olivos: 32 Pueblos: 15 Kalmias: 1 Lirios: 6 TOTAL - 145 CATS Regrettably, we had to put 6 cats to sleep because of sever injuries. We did not want them to suffer. Joyfully, we had a least 10 kittens adopted. So life continues.  In every area of Cumbre del Sol, we have found cat loving folks who help to take care of the cats and this confirms an exemplary humanitarian way of life. In some areas, micro-communities were founded and as a group effort privately pay for medical treatments and other helpful solutions. This way, many more cats have been helped with their survival needs. TOURIST SEASON is not a good time to trap CumbreCats because of cars, people and nois...

    OVERWHELMED AND GRATEFUL TO ROUND-UP 638,91 EUROS!! Once again, we are amazed at the compassion of many of our community Cumbre del Sol residents who have contributed to our CumbreCats Campaign and donated funds to keep the programme functioning.  Together with money generated by the sales of our CumbreCats CookBook, Gift / Occasion Cards made by our local artist, PayPal Donations, Gift Certificates and Collection Can from Pepe la Sal - the total came to 638,91 EUROS!! Since we do not receive money from any governmental structures, we are proud to know that we don't their money and that we can operate as a privately funded community enterprise. From past experience, we learned that just by volunteering for our local vet, the lovely and talented Veronica, it was a better way to get things done more quickly and efficiently. Keeping it simple with our partnership, there were no layers of bureaucracy to bog us down! The funds and cats we collect go directly to Veronica an...

 FRIENDLY FOLKS HELPING FELINE FERALS This report finds our friendly trappers in the Encinas zone of Cumbre del Sol on Friday, May 7, 2021. What a surprise to find out that we have a new trapping team named Karrie and Trevor Lott. Karrie filed this report: "Tina loaned us one of the metal cat traps. We didn’t feed our regular feral visitors the night before, even though I found this very hard not to. However, we were very lucky in the morning.  We were able to trap BIG EARS, a name that we had given to this feral cat. Big Ears went straight away for the tuna. trapped big ears (as we named him) straight away with the tuna. We actually thought he was a ‘she’!  We drove straight to the vets by 10:00. We were surprised when informed by the vet that Big Ears was a male because we had thought it to be a female!! 😄 By 13:00, the vet was ready for us to pick up Big Ears. He was quite happy in his cage. At 19:00 we left him food next to the cage but wasn’t in a rush to escape. Ev...

The trapping week started on Wednesday, April 21, 2021 with Tina up early with her traps out at the Monte Cala zone.  Two days in advance, she had already arranged with the Feeders to not feed the cats on that morning nor the night before. It was good to have the cats really hungry in order for the trapping session to go well. TINA REPORTS: "I arrived at Monte Cala at 8:10 and a few cats were hungry and waiting for food. I prepared our remote control trap and focused on a black fluffy female cat but a huge male cat appeared. There were a bunch of already neutered cats coming around so I had to lure them away from the trap, however the big macho ended up chasing the all away with wild hisses.  I quickly prepared a second trap with wet food and it only took 5 minutes for the male to enter the trap and the gate to shut. Meanwhile the fluffy female was dancing around the other trap. She ate a piece then left the trap and hid in the bushes. She wanted to see what would happen next...

THANK YOU to EVERYONE who Donated this Month and Bought the Fundraiser Cookbook.  We managed to gather up enough money to keep Veronica the Vet busy for the next month.  Thank you to Margaret who delivered the donation to Veronica and posed in this group photo! You Rock it!! 😘

AGAIN, GOOD & BAD NEWS!! There was only one day of trapping this week and it was on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Tina and Florence started their morning at different points around Cumbre at 8:00.  TINA REPORTS: The weather was fine with no wind nor rain. The cat feeders were informed a few days ago which day would be trapping day and hence not to feed their cats. Florence set up her trap in the storage area at the tennis bar owned by cat lover MariPaz. Unfortunately, there was still a big bowl of dry food left out so no cats were interested in the food in the traps. Their tummies were full. Florence was not happy and wrapped up her trapping event early. At the next feeding/trapping point in Encimas, Florence and the cats were already waiting for me and for food. Manfred, my cat feeder friend and I work together perfectly. Because of this good cooperation with Manfred, the cats were not fed and so they were hungry. It does not take long until they come around the traps. Meanwhile...