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NEWS & EVENTS
"Happy 15th Birthday Twinkle"
2010 Marks 15 years of Twinkling in Fuerteventura
THANK YOU
Kennie Delaine and Mark Diamond Phillips
for organsing a 'fun' fund raising event at Stoner's Irish Bar in Nuevo Horizonte.
The event was in memory of Rico the kitten they adopted after Twinkle volunteer 'Cherry', found Rico with a broken leg. Sadley little Rico died a few weeks after his leg operation. Although the surgery was a success, we discovered Rico has 'Feline Infectious Preritanitus (FIP) and nothing could be done to save him.
Everyone will be pleased to know that Kennie, Mark, Cherry raised 376.46 euros on the night.
The previous event organised by Kennie in June raised 342.62 euros, making a grand total of 719.08 euros.
The money raised will pay Rico's vet bill and also help towards the vet bill's for Coco, the cat which Twinkle took on a few months ago after he was diagnosed as diabetic and could not be left to fend for himself.
10 Fuerte Felines Finally Arrive in the UK
On the 7th July, at 10.30pm, 10 of our Twinkle cats arrived at Gatwick Airport. It was a long and stressful day for these cats, by the time they were released from Customs at the airport they had been confined to the special cat travel boxes and travelling for over 12 hours !
Several of the new owners came to the airport to collect their cats, for those that live further away we took the cats home and they were either collected or taken to their new homes the next day.
It never ceases to amaze me how well these little cats cope. As soon as they were let out of their boxes they eat, drank, used the litter box, played, purred and slept.
Importing these cats is expensive, stressful and it takes 8 long months before they are allowed to enter the UK. If we could find enough good homes in Fuerte it would be so much easier but the sad fact is there is a lack of good homes to be had in the Canaries.
Never the less, to finally see these gorgeous cats in their new loving homes, makes everything so worthwhile.
Fund Raising Event
We had a great day at our latest fund raising stall last weekend at the
Priory Community Festival.
We raised £273.50 thanks to the generous support of the public and 
for donating some chocolate treats.
National Rally 2010
Laura Lacey (aka Lara Croft) has just completed a mammoth challenge in order to raise some funds for Twinkles Autumn 'Feral Cat Neutering Campaign'.
Laura took part in the National Rally on the 4th July and completed an amazing 876 miles, in 26 continuous hours. Her grit and guts has raised a fabulous £966.
You can still add to Laura's total, please click on the link below and it will take you straight to her 'Just Giving' page.
Big purrs and hugs to Laura from Twinkle and all the Fuerte cats.
WWW.JUSTGIVING.COM/TWINKLENATIONALRALLY
Sponsored Slim
Andrea Wareingis fundraising for Twinkle to help feed the homeless cats of Fuerteventura.
So far Andrea has raised lots of donations (and helped us feed 100's of cats) and lost lots of weight, her target is to lose 2 stone in weight by the end of July. Andrea has done really well so far and is still sticking to her mission. Her will power is amazing ! 
Dig deep and sponsor Andrea now by clicking the below link.
www.justgiving.com/Andrea-Wareing
Sponsored Walk in Triquviate
Sonia, Jilly, Anna and some of the walkers. Jilly and Gustavo Berriel Hernandez (Mayor of Antigua)
On the 10th April a sponsored walk was held in Triquivate, to help raise funds for Twinkle and OKAPI. OKAPI is a local charity in Fuerteventura which helps the stray and abandoned dogs. The event was the brain wave of Trevor Mills and his wife Judy. A good friend of theirs called Anna was about to celebrate her 70th birthday and being a true animal lover, she asked for no birthday presents and for friends to make a donation to the 2 charities instead.
To make sure Anna’s birthday was extra special Trevor organised the sponsored walk and threw Anna a super birthday party. The Mayor of Antigua, Gustavo Berriel Hernandez opened the walk with a speech and words of encouragement. Jilly Ward and Sonia we there on the day and walked the walk with many other’s. Jilly & Sonia were there as Twinkle representatives and did us proud with TV and radio interviews.
Suza Dominquez Cabrera a regular Twinkle volunteer and ambassador also did a radio interview post walk and explained the need for local support and compassion when it comes to the strays of Fuerte.
Trevor put in a considerable amount of time and effort to make sure the walk was well organized and fun. Everyone that took part thoroughly enjoyed themselves and the total amount raised was €646.90, which has been divided between Twinkle & OKAPI. Thank you to everyone that took part and for making Anna's birthday a great day.
Our Spring Feral Cat Neutering Campaign
March 2010
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In March we carried out our Spring stray cat neutering campaign, it was a great success, we were able to help 345 cats during the week.
Cats caught & treated by the Twinkle volunteers:
• 165 females sterilised.
• 152 males sterilised.
• 023 cats received treatment only.
• 005 cats were put to sleep *
* 2 had kidney failure, 1 had advanced cancer of the nose, 1 had a large amount of fluid in her chest, 1 had advanced cancer of the ears as well as an abdominal tumour.
Additional cats sterilised by Bichos Veterinary Clinic of Fuerteventura were:
• 4 female cats.
Since Twinkle started helping the cats in Fuerteventura in 1995 we have sterilised over 6014cats. This figure does not included all the cats treated or sterilised by the local vets in Fuerteventura in-between our campaigns, which would probably make the total well over 6800 cats.
Thank you to everyone for all that you did to help the recent cat trip go as well as it did. There are so many of you I want to thank and so many reason to do so.
An Update From Our November Campiagn
Some of you may rememebr the story of the young blind cat that we helped in November 2009.So here is an update. While we were there in March we made a visit to see how this little cat was managing. I'm glad to say, she looks better than ever and doesn't let her blindess effect her life.
Here are a few more photo's taken during our time in Fuerteventura
Island Connections newspaper article on Twinkle - press page 1 & page 2 to read more.
Thomas Cook Supports Twinkle
Thomas Cook are supporting Twinkle by air freighting much needed supplies and donated items free of charge to Fuerteventura, thanks to them we are now able to accept donations of cat food which is a fantastic help.
We use a minimum of 311 tins of cat food every month, plus lots of dry cat food. With the cost of a regular tin of food in Fuerteventura being anything from 80p - £1.00, it is a tremendous strain on our funds.
Because of the support from Thomas Cook and with the help from Susan Lewis of Tesco Stores, two pet food companies donated a considerable amount of cat food to help feed our felines.
MARS PET CARE (Katie Orange)
donated 10 x 2 kilo bags of Whiskas cat biscuits.
CD FOODS (John McNamee)
donated a £200 Tesco voucher for us to purchase cat food.
TESCO STORES of Purley Way, Croydon
donated a £20 voucher for cat food.
The look on the cats faces when they realised they were having something different for supper was a real joy.
Donated food from Mars Pet Care Donated food from
Tesco Stores and CD Foods
