News from Kyrenia Animal Rescue (KAR) of the many events which have taken place in their usual busy week, including coping with the TRNC storms and on a lighter note, donations and successful re-homing.
KAR Centre, Arapkoy
Just an update as many of you have been contacting us as you are worried about the dogs (and cats) at the Centre following the storms.
Luckily the worst of the storms were at a lower level than the Centre and so the damage, so far, has not been too bad. We have a few leaking roofs and saturated ground issues but on the whole it is not too bad.
However the staff and KAR vehicles are facing difficulties getting to/from the Centre. The mountain road is under reconstruction for the new road and the construction work is causing its own issues with rubble, soil etc washing off the mountain onto the road. Visibility last evening was down to near zero. Plus some staff are struggling to get out of their own roads in order to be picked up – the van picking them up was under water to almost the top of the wheel arches this morning. But the main thing is the cats and dogs are fine.
The Karakum office is open as too are our Charity shops BUT depending on the weather/electricity issues they may have to close early.
Keep safe everyone – we will all be doing our best to keep our cats and dogs dry, fed, warm and SAFE.
Fab Four Fly Away
Last week saw the pet relocation of a Fab 4 family of dogs – Bella, Sally, Scooby and Toby. All 4 are big dogs and 3 needed our largest pre moulded IATA compliant dog crates. Scooby, however, was too large even for those. He needed a bespoke box 
larger than the largest moulded boxes available here. We organised that and then began the discussions with Turkish Airlines about suitable flight dates and, in particular, aircraft routing types. This is an important aspect of pet travel as not all aircraft are suitable for all pets. This is complicated further when having to consider not just the Ercan – Istanbul route but also the Istanbul – Heathrow route. 4 big dogs needed the biggest aircraft (to allow for sufficient space in the AVI hold where the dogs travel, to allow for sufficient ventilation concentrations etc). A date was set and flight details organised – albeit this meant in order to keep the 4 together on both legs of their journey they would spend a couple of hours longer than usual at Istanbul (if they had been split up then their owners would have faced very high additional charges).
The fab 4 ONLY just fitted into their transport van for the trip to Ercan but after completing their airline and customs checks they were off – The Fab 4 had Flown Away.
We had organised onward – Heathrow – North England – delivery for the dogs (the day after they arrived in the UK) and they arrived home, on Friday on time, to a very happy Mammy who was waiting anxiously for them.
As you can see – they are settling very well and we are so pleased that the whole family will be celebrating Xmas all under the same roof.
” The dogs are tired after their long journey from Northern Cyprus – in total it took 2 days for them to get back xx”
” They have settled in great. They have had their dinner and are sleeping on the sofas now.”
” They are not letting me out of their sight. I go to the loo and so do the 4 dogs. I go into another room and 4 dogs follow me. They are not letting Mammy out of their sight.”
” You don’t know how much of a relief, I had never put my family in boxes before and hoped that they got there – Thanks Kim without your help it mightn’t have all happened”
” A Big Big thank you to Kim Betts and KAR for all your help and support – it was really appreciated.”
Happy Christmas and Happy Days all around.
Thank you for donations
Well done to Jon and Bob our weekly entertainers at the Roadhouse… 1937TL for the month of November.. staggering amount!! 2 more weeks at the Roadhouse, then off stage for Christmas, back end of January!!
Thank you guys, amazing achievement!
1000 Euro – that is the fantastic amount unexpectedly received by KAR from The Bellepais Lodge. Thanks doesn’t go anywhere near enough but THANK YOU from all of the KAR cats, dogs and people. What a lovely early Xmas present. THANK YOU
Cat Neutering Program
We have SMASHED it………our amazing cat neutering program has SMASHED all KAR monthly records for neutering to date.
121 – 121 – 121 FANTASTIC number – that is how many cats our program has neutered in November. This was made up of 75 females and 46 males. 17 of the cats came from Turtle Bay Village.
Thank you to everyone who has helped us to achieve this number – Derya our star vet – her assistants – our cat catching team – members of the public who brought their street cats to us – Resco Management along with the residents and volunteers at Turtle Bay Village – you have all helped KAR achieve this FANTASTIC record.
Well done everyone.
Go Team KAR. Gone cats bits !
Pippa and Pickles
Back in August we were asking for help in homing Pickles and Pippa. The two golden oldies had a run of bad luck. Their owner had to return to the UK for urgent medical attention 
and was not in a position, health or finance-wise, to take the dogs with him. He was very distressed as you can imagine. His neighbour/friends (Bob and Gill) decided that they could not ignore the dogs’ plight and so agreed to foster them whilst trying to find them a home.
Sadly Bob and Gill also then received some very bad health news and they too had to return to the UK as a matter of urgency.
Pickles and Pippa had to go to our Rescue Centre as there was simply nobody to care for them. Sadly, despite everyone’s best efforts, they did not settle well at the Centre and staff were getting very worried for them.
One of our long standing supporters read about them and very kindly offered to foster them temporarily – until a new “furever” home could be found.
On Tuesday this week Pickles and Pippa went to their new FUREVER home – they will be spending their twilight years with Pam and Dave – happy, comfortable, warm and loved. What more could they want for Christmas and Furever after.
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