campaigns

KAR are now Recycling - Yes but not dogs and cats!

KAR have joined forces with a new company to hit town... Cartridge Island. Why?.. in a bid to clean up TRNC, educate children (and adults) about the need to recycle printer cartridges and, to raise money for KAR. This is the first recycling project of this kind that the charity has initiated and very much hope that the community will get involved.

Cartridge Island, which is opposite The Teacher's Hotel in Girne, have designed recycling bins just for KAR. The recycling bins are bright blue with the KAR logo on and some have already been located at schools in the area. KAR are pleased to announce that The British Academy of Northern Cyprus, The English School of Kyrenia, GAU and The Black Olive Cafe in Alsansak have already agreed to support this project. The KAR Education Team, Maggie Smith and Pam Kennedy, are also hoping that the Universities and Solicities may be willing to help as well and the local Belediyses. Each cartridge popped into one of these bins earns 1TL for KAR and helps keep the environment healthy.

So why shouldn't you throw empty ink cartridges away? There is very important reason- they are made of metal and foam and they DO NOT ROT AWAY. Cartridge Island refill and remanufacture Inkjet and Laser cartridges which can save the purchaser 60% of the normal cost.

KAR are asking companies and organisations to step forward and support this important recycling project by siting a recycling bin for them. For more information please call:

Pam Kennedy on 0533 832 8840 or Maggie Smith on 0533 8305361

John Redgate - Cartridge Island - 0392 815 5388

Can you help the dogs and cats ?

KAR have been promised regular waste food for the dogs and cats. They desperately need drivers who can give up 1 afternoon (or more !!) each per week from 1pm to approx 3.30pm. They would need to be able to go up to the Rescue Centre and then drive the KAR van to one or more locations (Lefkosia/Girne etc) to collect the food and then take it back to the Rescue Centre.

Please this food is so important to KAR and their animals - if you can help please call their office on 0533 8694098.

Happy New Year everyone,

Could I ask if anyone has any of our cat baskets and/or traps (which are loaned out to assist with transporting/catching cats to get them to the vets) can they please return them to the office ASAP. We are desperately short of our stock of baskets and traps and need them back as we currently have an urgent waiting list for them. From Monday 24th January we will no longer be able to loan either baskets or traps unless a minimum 50TL deposit is paid. There will then be 2 weeks free loan of the trap/basket and after that 2 weeks we will have to charge 10 TL per week rental on each trap/basket.

We apologise if this causes any inconvenience but it is the only way we can think of to try and ensure the speedy return of the equipment for other people to then use.

The symptoms of Lannate poisoning are a sudden uneasiness seen in cats and dogs shortly after the poison has been ingested. Increase in saliva secretion, dehydration, and pain in the stomach area and weakness in pulse and blood circulation. The animal cannot control evacuation, the pupil of the eye is constantly enlarged, there is difficulty in breathing because of the blocking of the bronchus by fluids and most characteristically, the smell of garlic.

The availability and use of poisons is a very important issue and KAR have set up a campaign to collect all known poisoning of dogs and cats in the Kyrenia area and to work on changing the attitude of the local population and allerting government bodies to the dangers of the lack of control of the use of insecticides pesticides

Restaurants, Hotels and Holiday Complexes are being encouraged to set up ‘Cat Feeding Areas’ where food and water can be put down for the cats in the area. This will help stop the cats bothering the diners, jumping on tables or going into guests rooms. If they are being fed regularly in the same area the cats will not be hungry and will not need to beg for food. It is also a place that visitors can feed the cats without upsetting other members of the public who might not like them. With the cats going to a regular place it makes it easier for the KAR cat catching team to be able to collect them for neutering and any other treatment that they may need to keep them healthy. Signs and advice are given to those participating in this worthwhile campaign and an annual award is given to the Cat Friendly Restaurant /Holiday complex as a reward and an incentive for them to continue the good work.

Meetings were held in August 2004 between the local authorities in Girne to try to encourage them to set up a workable dog registration scheme. The dog owning public would be asked to register all dogs with the local authority where they would be given a numbered registration tag for the dog to wear attached to its collar. This would enable KAR to recognise which dogs on the streets were not owned. In 2005 a number of dogs were registered and at the beginning of 2006 notices were sent out to inform all dog owners in the Girne area that registrations were due. They were also informed that no dogs are allowed loose on the streets and must be kept on a lead in public areas. Following the successful implementation of the scheme in the Girne area KAR held meetings with other local authorities to encourage them to also set up a similar registration scheme in their area in accordance with the local law.

Following the ruling announced by the European Commission that North Cyprus would not be allowed to participate in the Pet Travel Scheme after 30^th September 2004 and that all animals travelling into the UK will be required to be licensed into quarantine for a period of six months, KAR begun a campaign to protest against this unfair ruling.

‘That the reason why the UK could no longer accept these animals for entry under the Pet Travel Scheme is political, not veterinary. The EU does not recognise the area of Cyprus to the north of the buffer zone. We are therefore obliged to treat it as a non-qualifying third country. We do appreciate the problems this causes some pet owners but we are unable to change the requirements until the political situation has been resolved.’

KAR welcomes comments and letters to be sent in protest of this ruling to DEFRA and to the European Union.

Up until Sept 04 many of our KAR cats and dogs were lucky to be finding new homes in the UK, under the PFP scheme following this change in the ruling the numbers dropped dramatically due to the many hundreds of pounds required to keep an animal in six months quarantine!

Animals flying from the UK with Pet Passports are now unable to return to the UK without doing 6 months in Quarantine!

KAR rely soley on donations for funding, please help us to help the animals of Northern Cyprus.

Bank: HSBC plc, Market Street, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 3AA, UK
Sort Code: 40-21-02
Account Number: 11364812
IBAN No: GB57MIDL40210211364812
BIC No: MIDLGB2131B

or you can post your donation to us address details on Contact Page, cheques made payable to:
KYRENIA ANIMAL RESCUE

Also look out for the highly decorated collection boxes in restaurants and holiday complexes when in North Cyprus.