Corfu - Greece Protecting the environment is the first and most important thing we have to do on Corfu. But we forget the animals, now the tourist gone the problems start on the island.

There are large population of dusty strays on the street. And now the winter starts we see a lot cats and dogslooking for food, they eat what they find in and around the containers, so many will be starved or poisoned.

The dogs start hunting and kill chicken, so the people start hunting the dogs.

Combine this with a common disregard for neutering (people either don’t care or some consider it’s not in keeping with their religious beliefs) and a general culture that often doesn’t pay huge consideration to the moral worth of animals and some horrors unfold.

You hear or read about the same stories over and over – village street poisonings, puppies abandoned by the sides of the road, grown dogs chained to trees 24/7 as guard dogs, others swept into gorvenment-run ‘sanctuaries’ where they are said to not be exercised and never released, others still used as hunting dogs and when the season is over brutally killed.

Clearly there are many many dogs and cats that have loving homes. But many also do not. To stop al this we need your help so we can feed the animals, to close the containers and clean around. If you want to help, please donate. We have two organisation who do a lot work on the island but it is not enough, they can't be all around the island, so we help them here in the north. (It was also a very bad year for kittens with many being dumped in areas where tourists frequent.) We save every year cats, but we can not do it alone.