THE EXPERIENCE IS ENDING... :(

Almost two weeks left for the end of my EVS.   I´m alredy very sad but I know that life will continue in my country or wherever, with a lot of projects to begin.

It will be hard for my colleague Ioanna (EVS from Greece working in Lesė as well) and for me lo leave our animals. 

They are an important part of our lifes here, our conversations, toughts, worries and so on. So, in a bit more than two weeks our life will change completely again, without them. Only we will see and follow them throught Internet. At least it´ll be something. 

Before leaving, we wanted to do something for the shelter and some days ago we decided to use the money which the European Union gives us for our projects for painting the shelter. 

For us nothing is enough for our shelter. We love to take care of the animals as much as we can and of course the place where they are living.

In Lesė, there are always something to do, to fix, to clean... the work never ends. Like in any animal shelter. That´s why is sooo important the labour of all the volunteers who come to the shelter everyday, or once per week, or even once per month... every little help is important for us. 

I really want to say thank you for all those voluntees who came to help us during all this time and who will continue. 

These days in Lesė are great because fortunately many people are coming. Youngsters from the high school or people who are alredy on holidays. They are hard workers and they love to be there.

Our time here is almost over but Lesė has a great team of volunteers who take care in the best way of all the animals who are living there and they try to find the best family for them. 

All the new volunteers that would like to help they are very welcomed :)

Untill the next entry!

FERTILITY OF CATS

Fertility of cats depends on hours of sunligth. That´s why Spring and Summer are the most fertile seasons fot these animals.

I remember when I arrived to the shelter the first time in September. We had a lot of adorable kittens, all of them were adopted very fast. Then they stopped to arrive and now in Spring started again. We have few litters without the mum and some of them with the mum. 

Some litters are abandoned from people and some others are found as babies from stray cats.

Lesė Shelter is doing a really useful and important project  with the cats currently in Vilnius to stop the reproduction of the cats. http://www.lese.lt/en/sterilizacija_tvarka

Sterilization is a very important step to reduce the problem with stray cats in Lithuania. It would be also important to make the people aware of the importance of this.

If you find stray kittens It´s very important to know how to act in case you have to take care of them. They are too sensitive and delicate and they need some decisive cares to survive.

Actually it is really easy to get information about kitten´s care. Here you can check a webpage with the most important advices you´d need:

http://www.wikihow.com/Care-for-Orphaned-Kittens-Less-Than-Three-Weeks-of-Age

Here is a video of the beautiful kittens we have in the shelter:

In this video you could watch some of the kitten we have currently in the shelter. 

Most of the kittens are coming without the mummy, so depends on the age of the babies they need some special care.

Fortunately we have the best mum ever. She was raising her babies till they know how to eat and survive alone and now she is taking care happily of  other kittens as the best.
She is giving them all the necessary cares they need to grow up strong.

Not always we have the luck to have a mum who adopts kittens, so in these cases we sould take care of them carefully.

If some of you are now in that situation I wish you the best luck. Be patient. At the end it will be amazing to see them growing up :)