Puglia Pooches don’t just care for dogs, they care for cats as well. Here you can meet the Puglia Pussies, the cats that Val and Mino have rescued and cared for. As well as their own rescue cats, you will find here the stories of the Casa Mare cats who are also all rescue cats and are looked after by Val and Mino’s friends, Bob and Debbie. The latest addition to the Casa Mare cats was in fact hand-reared by Val from the age of two weeks before being returned to Bob and Debbie. Her story will come later, so please check back soon.
As you can imagine all these animals cost a lot of money to feed and care for. There are several ways you can help Val and Mino to care for the rescued dogs and cats. Check out the How you can help page for more information, or if you have other fund-raising ideas, you can contact Val either by clicking on one of the social icons in the top right corner or by using the contact form.
Although we bought Hank and his siblings Minnie and Shadow, they were still “rescued” cats. They were in a cage in a DIY shop, barely old enough to have left their mother, so tiny and scanky. We went in for one and came back out with all three, they cost €2 each. With a lot…
My beautiful Minnie, sister to Hank and Shadow, moved from Portugal to Puglia with us in February 2005. She was such a sweet and gorgeous cat, so lovely, all fat and cuddly. Minnie and Hank were so good, with all the dogs we have brought into their home, and they were also very close to…
Come and say hello to Tiggy. He and Micia are brother and sister, and they were abandoned outside of my very good friend Debbie’s house in early June 2009 when they were just a couple of weeks old. As Debbie already had over 20 cats and no experience with such tiny kittens, she asked if…
In April 2010, Mino was driving through a neighbouring village and saw this tiny little kitten lying at the side of the road, as good as dead. He picked him up and brought him home. He was very young, he wouldn’t have lasted another night on his own. After a health check at the vets,…
This is Sbirolino. In 2008 we were asked to take him by some people we knew, the kitten’s mother had abandoned him in their garden, they were not animal people, so really didn’t know what to do with him, he was just a couple of weeks old. We took him and bottle-fed him and brought…
Nerone was a feral cat that arrived in the garden one day in 2016. He wasn’t in the least worried about all the dogs! We fed him, he was starving, he stayed, we had him neutered. He is now quite at home, he loves sleeping on our bed. Rags to riches comes to mind 😀
Nico is our three-legged wonder cat 🐈. In 2015, one of the vets we use asked us if we would consider taking this young cat, who had just been operated on. He had been involved in an accident and a lady had found him, and took him straight to the vet and paid for all…
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