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About Us Why a Greek Cat Welfare Society? Greece and the Greek islands are inundated with stray, abandoned and feral cats. The majority of them are born in the spring and survive through the kindness of tourists who feed them. At the end of the summer season the tourists leave, and some cats survive through the kindness of local Greeks. However, many die of starvation or fall foul of cat hating people who poison them or worse. Attitudes to animal welfare can be very different in Greece from those in the UK; cats are often viewed as a nuisance and subjected to considerable cruelty, mass poisonings being particularly common before and after the tourist season, to “clean up”. GCWS exists to help reduce this cruelty. What We Do Since 1992 we have been promoting the care and welfare of cats in Greece. Our main strategy is to support neutering of colonies of stray cats to reduce breeding. Trap, neuter and return (TNR) is now recognised to be the only humane, effective method of reducing a stray cat population. Over time TNR will greatly reduce cat numbers, providing it is carried out on an organised basis several times a year. Our TNR work in an area is carried out in one or both of two ways: By organising volunteer vets and nurses to carry out the neutering in most months of the year; and/or by giving financial and material support to local volunteer groups who organise neutering programmes. We are currently supporting over 30 local groups with grants, equipment, supplies and vets/nurses, in areas including Athens, Crete, Rhodes, Samos, Skyros and Thessaloniki. (Owing to the workload of managing our support for local groups and the limited number of volunteers available to carry it out, we are not currently taking on new projects.) Over time, neutering programmes for stray cats steadily reduce the number of stray animals in the area. They also serve as a means to highlight the benefits of neutering, thereby encouraging local pet owners to have their own animals sterilised. Having been neutered, stray cats are then released back into their locality. Lower numbers mean the cats become healthier through more adequate supplies of food and less fighting, thereby becoming more acceptable to human populations. This in turn encourages people to care for and feed the cats rather than poison them. We ensure the cats’ continuing health and welfare by arranging regular feeding and care, including veterinary treatment by local vets when sick or injured. We are in contact with a large number of people all over Greece who daily feed large numbers of stray cats. Any cat neutered will always be fed and monitored by these kind people. However, we only support feeding where a viable neutering programme is in place. This is because we believe, supported by veterinary advice, that feeding without neutering only increases stray cat populations, working against the objectives of TNR and making the cats’ suffering worse. As well as neutering, the vets also examine the animals and treat any other complaints. These frequently including fractures, skin wounds, eye problems caused by cat flu, parasites and ear cancer caused by the hot sun, especially in white cats. Occasionally they perform amputations, t

not like the greeks then

You don't look kurdish then i presume bare in mind they are probably after the hard cash in you wallet and not their micky mouse money

Oh you never heard the threats from russia against the uk as in nuking it? Remember Ireland is only a short distance away as well and would also be totally destroyed there again whats another 4 300 000 pointless deaths when you have acheaved your objective

I hate the idea that turkey is a full member them and the ruskys are total bedfellows - just leaders names are not stalin or Mussolini

does not look right , though i am no expert

You remember those poor kids he nearly killed playing rugby - would have needed a real serious apology to some parents for that

'Tis but a scratch!" Clasic one liner . Bet boris said this after going into hospital with covid

It is .....

Useful for finding out the last year a dealer worked - anoying it does not give a final year for farthing specialist

Something to do with a jubilee I think LOL. Buy in a couple of years if you wanna avoid the hype.

Bet you would have a problem finding a worse minger than that ........

lovely medal , but a bit overpriced , still its quality , very few around look like that now

Surpose that if a male imagines hes getting a 19 year old and he ends up with a overweight 55 year old it could have something to do with it

How complicated

A Ukrainian refugee rehomed under a government scheme has claimed she and her teenage son were left homeless after being manipulated by their hosts. The woman, 45, who fled Bucha, north of Kyiv, came to north-east England on 16 April but said she was asked for money and told to leave after three weeks. "I am fleeing the war and all of a sudden I am on the street," she said. The government said Homes for Ukraine had helped more than 33,000 people, with very few unsuccessful cases. The mother and her 13-year-old son - whose identities are being protected - are being helped by a Sunderland-based charity and are in temporary accommodation while waiting to be matched with a new family. She told BBC Look North she thought her hosts would be kind and caring, but within weeks she "did not feel safe or secure". "Our host approached us and said 'I need money'," she said. She said the family told her: "We spent so much money on you - look how expensive you are, look how much you have cost us - I want money." The hosts set up an online fundraising page purported to be for the benefit of the exiled mum and son - which raised more than £850 - although the woman says she never saw any of the money. She added: "All of a sudden I am fleeing the war and all of a sudden I am on the street." ReutersCopyright: Reuters MAYBE THIS GREADY PERSON SHOULD HAVE TRIED BREEDING FRENCH BULLDOGS NOT CAREING FOR REFUGEES , according to the latest opinion poll.

Just checked up on the lyrics and guess what for the last forty years I thought chicks were chips . WHAT A PLONKER as del boy whould have said. "That ain't workin', that's the way you do it Get your money for nothin', get your chicks for free We got to install microwave ovens, custom kitchen deliveries We got to move these refrigerators, we gotta move these color TVs" Mind you "We will rock you does also sound like freddie is kicking a cat all over the place" not a can" worthy of a west ham player And that devil has a sideboard in bohemian rhapsody as well

And the chips for free

Few coins found with a detector are worth much more than scrap value - a few hoards over the year are always mind blowingly brilliant - but most single coins are in pretty dire straights

Pretty sure its post mint damage , how its happened can just be speculated on, there are millions of 20th cent coins with many different types of post mint damage most on ebay for daft prices

Looks a bit like it might be lead - its a funny metal to make coins from - its more associated with contemp forgeries

"Sitting on a park bench , eyeing little coins with bad intent"

And I thought he was the lead singer in Jethro tull