How do you rescue a cat from Cyprus?

hotcookie101

If you are talking about south cyprus then it comes under PETS. From Jan 2012 they are withdrawing the need for the blood test for rabies, so they just need to be chipped, rabies vacc and then 3 weeks later can come into UK. So no need for blood test for any animal now (original conditions were 6mo from date of blood test)
No idea re costs (would be about £80 with us for the chip, rabies vacc and passport, used to be £70ish for bloods) but you can't just bring it home with you from your holidays-will be january at least

Oliver14

xxxpinkladyxxx wrote: »

I'm on holiday at the moment and there is a lovely cat here who is very skinny and spends all his time with us at the villa. Id love to take him home to england with me but how do you even go about this and how much is it likely to cost? I can't bear the thought of leaving him here starving!

This may help if you consider not attempting to bring the cat across which would be the sensible thing.

http://www.malcolmcat.org/

puddy

i dont know if the canaries has the same criteria as cyprus but the process that happened to us is that we decided to bring dog home

got in touch with a quarentine boarding place near gatwick who arranged all the paperwork with the import people - you have to get import visas etc, dont ask me what they were we just signed it all and faxed it back

we found a local vet where the dog had to be registered, pet passport given, first blood tests for rabies and innoculations

we then found out that the first flights available for the dog would be about a week after ours so we had to source a boarding place in the canaries who would keep her until she could fly to the UK.

we then left to come home, dog still in boarding in canaries. week later she flies into gatwick, she is met by quarentine staff from the home to bring her to the kennels. then she has to stay 6 months to be proven to be 'free' of rabies

you dont have to wait to bring the cat home, it will depend on flights etc, but you do need to get the pet passport sorted before she flies

one thing to consider is that the animal will be very frightned, they are kept in the hold where the temperatures drop and it must be very distressing for them

puddy

aliasojo wrote: »

I think it's probably a really stupid decision financially, to want to do this, but I applaud your big hearts. :T Karma will hopefully ensue.

i suppose i should put some context around it. my friend at the time (and for years afterwards) was going through a loss issue with regard to her fertility and stuff, was worried she wouldnt have kids, left it too late, couldnt decide that she wanted to stay with the bloke she was with (at any one time), only wanted to be with someone to have a child, didnt want a child, did want a child, wanted a dog, didnt want a dog

so the dog became a sort of lifesaver in some respects that this was the thing she could nurture and be a sort of baby substitute, so it coloured both of our view, we both felt that finding her on the mountain side, scared, starving and in danger was some sort of 'sign' that my friend should have this dog. i obviously wanted to save the dog and i knew it would go to a good home. it was in the days when i lived on credit cards, it was no big issue to spend 2k and have 4 holidays a year! i wouldnt do it now

Mallotum_X

Dont, its going to cost you a fortune and there are bound to be people who will pray on you for more cash along the way. Plenty of cats need a home here.

sharnad

I think its a wonderful thing for you to try and do but it may cost a lot but if you can do it then it ill be worth it

tankgirl1

xxxpinkladyxxx wrote: »

I'm on holiday at the moment and there is a lovely cat here who is very skinny and spends all his time with us at the villa. Id love to take him home to england with me but how do you even go about this and how much is it likely to cost? I can't bear the thought of leaving him here starving!

I haven't read past your post OP, but if you are serious, I can put you in touch with someone who has just brought a stray dog over from cyprus. I'm not sure of the ins and outs, but I know it took no small amount of time, money and effort

PM me your email address if you want me to put you in touch x

irishsymphony

SnowyOwl wrote: »

Let us know what you decide to do pinklady.

I know you have fallen for this one particular cat, but you could make a bigger difference to many more cats if you donate to a local cat/animal sanctuary the money you would have spent rescuing this one solitary cat.

Whatever you do I wish you luck.

I know you meant well with that - but what you're leaving out is that it's this one cat that has captured the person's heart.

People said to me before, when I had a Bichon, "why did you pay so much money for a Bichon when you could have saved numerous dogs from the pound?"

There's no answer to that - sometimes it's not about what's doing right for others. It's about what's caught your heart and held it. And while something can subsitute for that, in time, you're always left wondering ...

Best of luck with this. A friend of mine is currently looking into importing a kitten from Serbia to Ireland ; it seems quite time consuming.

Pollycat

Pinklady
I know exactly how you feel.

I fell in love with a cat in Kos two years ago, he was about a year old and a full tom but very lovable and clean.

I looked seriously into bringing him home and found a local quarantine kennels who charged £190 per month (so £1140 for the 6 month stay) plus a collection fee of between £200 & £350 depending on which airport he'd be flown into.

The above are all ex vat, so I'd have been looking at £1800 purely for that aspect plus the cost of examination, vaccination etc in Greece and the cost of the flight home.

The 2 deciding factors for me were my old cat here at home who would almost certainly not take to another cat and the fact that a cat who was used to spending a lot of his time outdoors would be locked away for 6 months with just visits from us. I decided it wouldn't be fair on him.

It really did break my heart to leave him, I still think about him and hope he's OK.

Katiehound

I just wonder if a local rescue would take him in and try to home him locally if you were to make a very generous donation. Several hundred pounds donated to them would mean they could care for 'yours' as well as many already in rescue, rather than the money spent on bureaucratic red tape, flights etc and it would benefit a lot more animals.
I have any idea how you feel because I fell in love with street dogs in Turkey some years ago, knew I couldn't bring them home and set about doing some fund raising for the dogs home in Fetheiye when I got back to UK. I even helped round up street dogs in Dalyan for neutering on my hols!