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More Cats, More Chickens and More KITTENS

Our menagerie of animals has grown over the last few years of our homesteading journey here in Portgual. We moved here with two cats that are no longer with us and we’ve added a flock of chickens but their numbers have also gone up and down over time.

Today we’ll give you the full story on all the cats, all the chickens and bring you up to speed on more cat drama in the village. We’ll share what we’ve been doing for the sterilisation program with the funds we raised a couple of years ago and introduce you to some new kittens that we will be fostering until they’re ready to be adopted.

If you’d like to help us – and our neighbour – feed, medicate, sterilise and re-home these cats, here’s some options:

Buy something from the Amazon wishlist
https://www.amazon.es/hz/wishlist/ls/1FW9ROBV0B3U1?ref_=wl_share

Donate a small sum to pay for medication for the 22 kittens and sterilisation of the 15 adult cats (and any future ones that come along)

Go Fund Me
https://gofund.me/13f54278

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