Welcome to Cats In Need Menorca
Founded by Janice Bockling, Cats in Need Menorca is a non-profit organisation that has been neutering, feeding and caring for stray cats in Menorca since 1999.
News & Updates
What is happening today at Cat in Need Menorca
Our colony at The hotel Almirante Collingwood.
All neutered.
We’ve been caring for the cats here since 2006. Every night if the year without fail they are fed.
Nuestra familia gatuna en el Hotel Collingwood.
Cuidamos de esta colonia desde 2006
Todos esterilizados y cada noche les dejamos aqua y pienso.
How many are there now Janice? x
They all look good ❤️❤️
They look so plump and healthy and happy janice well done to you and your helpers
You do a fab job. They look well fed & healthy
They are beautiful cats and look so healthy well done Cats in Need Menorca xxxx
Wonderful
Beautiful 😻 They look well fed xx
You work so hard thank you xxx
My sister in law is due to come to menorca later this year and ginger cat rescue said you are always in need of treats. If i send some over with her, how woupd she get them to you?
What would they do without you Janice 😺xx
Hope to get to see them and you in October.
What a healthy bunch. Your doing a great job ❤️
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If I had a parrot I would teach him to say ”Who’s a naughty boy ? ”
It would apply mainly to Bini and Dillon/ Pesky.
This morning I really didn’t want Bini to go out so closed him in the second bedroom.
Completely forgetting that I had left a bag of cat shopping in the en suite bathroom for safety (! )
Bini has to go to Vet later . He has had a couple of nose bleeds lately. The fear is that he has cancer of the nose and we watch it constantly.
It didn’t stop him from opening the shopping and breakfasting like a king.
2 and a half sachets eaten and half a packet of Dreamies.
Bini no para nunca.
Esta mañana le he encerrado en una habitación porque más tarde tendré que llevarle al veterinario.
Olvidando que había dejado una bolsa con comida de gatos en el baño.
Ha desayunado como un rey.
Dos sobres y medio y medio paquete de chuches.
He looks about to enter a food coma 😂
You bad lad! That was for others as well, not just for you, you piggy porker!
What a terror! Hope he was ok at the vet's.
Well you can’t say life with the cats is ever boring!
Oh dear naughty Bini xx
Oops!
Ra, ra, comes the morning wake up call.
Timmy is awake , so everyone must wake.
I can never decide if he’s The Lion King, because he sounds like a lion in a cartoon or he’s going to sing Ra Ra Rasputin.
However he is here to see out his days with me, Tottering by Gently.
For Timmy has reached the great age of 19 years and 7 months.
Originally as a kitten he lived with me but then he went to a wonderful home, but sadly his human Mum died last week and so he came to me.
He is stone deaf
He has a cataract on one eye
His liver could be better
He has a heart murmur
He only has 2 teeth left , incisors , and a root which does not seem to cause him pain or discomfort so we have decided not to do anything about it.
His kidneys are not perfect but not that bad.
His liver is “ tocado “ not quite right.
He does quite possibly have dementia.
He weighs 2.6 kilos , when he should be at the very least 4.
Amazingly he does not have anaemia.
I suspected that like many elderly cats his nails would be very long and causing him distress but two were completely embedded in his pads
He is not fazed by other cats. He did after all live with 5 more for a long time but had been an only child for the last 3 years.
So he is living in my bathroom for now at least and comes to sit with me in the bedroom and gaze out through the French windows.
I blocked off the way into the vanity unit as cats can get into the drawers through the back but he has plenty of cages to hide in. And a big one to eat in.
At first he wasn’t eating much at all and the vet said to me that cats with dementia, like people, can often forget to eat.
So I put him in a cage for his meals and he eats the lot. His favourite apparently , since I asked, is Goumet rabbit , which he snaffles quite quickly. I’m hoping to get him eating a healthier diet to feed him up. He’s looking a little better. The first couple of days he dropped 50 grams which was alarming, and that’s when I decided to pop him in a cage to eat but this morning he ate a whole tin without any prompting.
Many of the cats in our care are now 17 or more years old. Usually from our colonies on the streets of Menorca and they come to live out their days in peace, comfort and above all with good food and safety. And love.
Timmy loves being picked up and cuddled.
Can you help to continue our work?
Like just about every Charity around we are struggling.
There are two ways to donate. Directly via our UK bank account as we are a registered Charity in the UK. Cats in Need Menorca 1161878
Barclays 20 53 77 13280128
Or via PayPal
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Good morning from Timmy
Thank you for taking care of him x
He's a gorgeous old boy, i loved meeting him and pleased he' s got you to spend his later years with x🐾🐾💙
What a dear old chap. How lucky to have had you at both ends of his life and a lovely long term owner in between ❤️
Oh he's lovely Janice 😍 so sad when they lose their owner. I had one that was 23 and ginger
He’s a sweetheart. My daughter had a cat called Mungo. She had a breakin and the burglar had hit poor Mungo over the head! He had brain damage and behaved strangely after that. Cats, as with humans need extra attention with dementia or brain injuries.
Good morning Timmy you’re so handsome xx
Dear old chap, glad he's surrounded by love and care (and Gourmet Rabbit).
Lovely boy. I'm so pleased he's snuggling with you 😊
Amazing! You and Timmy xx
Isn't he lovely Jan xxx
I made a box with goodies for him, will bring it as soon as I can
Dear Timmy 🥰
Isn’t there a song that goes something like “ Why don’t I ever learn? “
Why don’t I indeed. You’d think that living with Pesky and the Forty Furry Thieves that I would be more careful.
But no.
Opened a tin of very expensive AD food for some of the many old or frail and poorly cats.
Put the tin in a kitchen drawer to save it for later.
I was in a rush.
2nd emergency dash to vet just after closing in the same day.
But no excuse. It really helps to close the drawer.
Poor you Janice always an uphill battle xxx
I had a present on Saturday and morning of a real snake by my garden gate.
Boy did I jumpwhen I saw it whilst hanging out the washing.
Dead. Dare I say fortunately. Had one brought in alive one day. Upstairs in my office.
I have a total phobia about snakes , can’t even look at them on TV.
The obvious culprits , Dillon and Bini , were inside all night.
Vaya sorpresa desagradable el sábado por la mañana.
El regalo de un serpiente en el jardín. Muerto pero aún así pegue un buen salto al verlo.
I thought cats were scared of snakes! Did no one tell your tribe?
Poor you. I don’t mind snakes but have a phobia of spiders and cockroaches. I’ve learned to deal with spiders - you have to with children around for fear of transferring your phobia to them. Since having a home in Menorca I have had to deal with cockroaches when I have been here alone. Normally I scream for David to deal with them!
Me too ! At least not venomous on Menorca ?
I think the cats needs questioning one by one to get to the truth 😄
I arrived home to a lot of feathers and a very dead bird - or at least discarded parts that of it!
I don’t mind snakes but hate spiders. Geoff was the other way round!
They are totally harmless in Menorca.
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Por lo general, esto sucede porque el propietario ha compartido el contenido solo con un grupo reducido de personas, ha modificado quién puede verlo o se ha eliminado.I had to read this twice and still can’t quite believe it.
Cat killing competition for children cancelled in New Zealand after backlash
news.sky.com
Feral cats are regarded as pests in New Zealand - but critics of the contest fear children wouldn't be able to distinguish them from household pets.Shocking isn’t it. You would expect it was in some Third World country not a so called civilised country like New Zealand.
Sadly the part of the competition where kids kill deer and wild pigs still going ahead 😞
I can't bear to read the article. The headline is sick-making.
I've been there but NO WAY I'd go back.
That is a disgusting practice! Barbaric.
What do these morons think their children are going to think? It’s ok to murder innocent animals? Next it’ll be ok to kill a person you don’t like!
Sick!
What !! 🤬🤬
The Look Out. More than half a kilometre away yet. Waiting for her supper.
Trouble is she’ll get under my feet all the rest of the way.
Current Campaigns
Donations Needed at the Moment for :
Meals On Wheels!
Meals On Wheels!
Meals for Street Cats
We provide food and water for over 200 cats every day of the year. Some are out in the country, some in the private gardens of villas in resorts. These are usually provided with hoppers and are filled once a week on average. But the many colonies of street cats in towns have to be fed daily as there is nowhere safe to leave food. Every month our food bill is over 500 euros , without counting the cost of food for cats with special needs.
Kittens Best Start
Vaccinations for Kittens
Their best start to life
We really do need more help. We have our loyal donors, many of who have supported us since we became a Charity And heartfelt thanks to them but our food bill is going to be horrendous with so many kittens. We vaccinate them all 3 Times to give them the best possible start in life and that alone is 57 euros each. So can you help please?
Neutering
Caring for sick and injured cats
Neutering to reduce unwanted cats
The main objective is to neuter cats to prevent unwanted kittens, supported by compassionate caring, veterinary treatment and re homing where possible. There are 25 feeding stations around the island tended by volunteers, but more stations are needed. Sick and injured cats are cared for and no cat is put to sleep if it can have a decent quality of life.