The international team of the Calpe Cat Shelter looks after both feral and abandoned domestic cats needing a home and medical treatment.

Unfortunately, hardly a day goes by without us being called upon to rescue a cat in distress. Invariably these cats need at least a veterinary check up and quite often medical treatment of various degrees followed by a period of recuperation in our shelter or, if possible, with a foster family.

Our shelter consists of three main areas:

Firstly, there is the main enclosure where the domestic cats live together and can roam around free. The main enclosure has some individual cages to put cats aside when needed (mums with newborns etc.) but normally we do not like our cats being in a cage.

Secondly, we have a smaller enclosure consisting of individual pens where the least healthy cats are looked after.

And finally we have an extensive plot of land where our feral cats live.

All of our cats are fed, watered and the enclosures are cleaned out twice a day. We also seek to pet them as much as we possibly can which they of course enjoy, but more important, keeps them friendly which obviously helps them to be found permanent new homes.

We currently have around 30 cats within the shelter’s enclosures and an even larger number of feral cats living in the shelter grounds. You can visit us by appointment only!

Our aim is to sterilise all of our cats to reduce the number of births in the wild and Calpe Town Council kindly pays for the sterilisation of some of our cats. Despite the important help provided by the council, the shelter incurs costs in terms of food, cat litter and most significantly in veterinary fees.

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