Tonya is a beautiful tortoiseshell cat who arrived at the shelter in 2012. She started out with a home, but unfortunately her owner – an old man in the local town – was thrown out of his house and unable to keep his cats. So Tonya and her siblings were brought to the shelter. The […]
Guarding the Volunteers house, Lisa is our little hero and one of the most affectionate cats I have met. Every time someone enters the house, she has her crazy 5 minutes, running around, jumping up on top of the beds and scratching her claws. It is pure happiness that someone is there, able to pay […]
One of the things that can be said about Catsby is that he’s extremely handsome. Named after the central character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1930s novelette The Great Gatsby, Catsby is also kind, calm, generous, dignified, and a true gentleman. On top of all that, Catsby is Feline Leukemia Positive. This means, among other things, […]
Willa came to us with her brother, when they were a whole one month old, in April 2001. We brought her to the house when Piquito got adopted, thinking she was too young to be left to suffer loneliness. She is a very beautiful cat, though she wasn’t always as beautiful as she is now. […]
Jota and his wife Mercedes were driving through an underpass in Guatemala City one rainy afternoon. “Stop!” she yelled, and he did. Crouched by the wall was a handsome black and white adult cat, presumably sheltering from the rain. Being cat-friendly people they had a travelling cage in the car, and the cat did […]
We don´t want to leave! That is the first sentence that comes into our mind. We love this place. Caring for the animals here is rewarding: Like Griffin, she was nice in the beginning but scared that we would be mean to her but now she is the most loving dog towards us. She comes […]
CHESTER and HERSHEY They were in Police custody but they had done no wrong. No, but wrong had been done to them. They had been put in a bowl and abandoned on the street in Sumpango, AWARE’s local town. The sleek, black, slightly menacing patrol unit cruised through the front gate and rolled to a […]
Life is not easy, and frequently not the bowl of cherries that we hear about. Many people suffer, and many people give in to the temptation of bitterness as they age. This can be a good reason to have a companion animal: the more love we give the more love we receive is a simple […]
Lil’ Bub was brought to us by a little girl – the daughter of the man who brings the hay for Flicka the chestnut mare. She got down from the truck and handed Xenii a small ball of fur. Apparently she found it behind a bale of hay, and no one wanted it, even though […]
When Meyer arrived at AWARE he was paralysed. He couldn’t even lift his head to drink. Someone had left this beautiful, young Chocolate Lab lying on the path by the Main Gate. The Vet’s diagnosis was of some kind of blow to the spine, probably not inflicted by a speeding vehicle – possibly by the […]
