#cats

The government will allocate €100,000 for the spaying and neutering of dogs, triple the budget for spaying and neutering cats – from €100,000 to €300,000 – as well as €150,000 towards the creation of a regional ...

Animal welfare commissioner Antonia Theodosiou announced a seven-year action plan for the mass-sterilisation the island’s more than 1 million stray cats in an effort to control their population. “We support ...

Approximately 30 cats were found dead with foam around their mouths and poison found at Sfalayiotissa cemetery in Limassol, the Greens action group for animals said on Tuesday. The group said ...

With temperatures ranging above 40 degrees Celsius on a regular basis, summer is in full swing. While we cool off with cold drinks, air conditioning and beach days, our animal companions ...

Responding to criticism over the alleged removal of cats from its coastal front and prohibiting dogs from walking on the pedestrian path with a sign, the municipality of Paralimni-Dherynia said ...

Tucked away along the Dhekelia-Larnaca-Oroklini seafront, framed by residential houses on both sides, lies the Verki wetland. With ducks gliding across the water and cats wandering along the reeds, Verki ...

In September 2023, Tala Cat Park was struggling. Dawn Foote, the founder of the feline rescue centre, had suffered a debilitating stroke. The facilities for the roughly 800 cats under her care ...

A woman appeared in court in the north on Friday, accused of having forged a rabies certificate to import two cats from overseas. A police representative in court said the ...

I am sure all who live in Cyprus are (sadly) aware of the deliberate act of feral cats “poisoning”. The slow death is horrific. Recently I personally witnessed and experienced, ...

Doubts were raised on Wednesday as to how Cyprus will manage to implement an upcoming EU directive to micro-chip cats and dogs sold at pet stores or by breeders. “I ...

A fatal strain of cat Covid which has killed thousands of animals on the island has reached the UK, reports said on Sunday. According to the Daily Mail, scientists said ...

An unlikely friendship prompts an epic trek along the western coast. But it also raises awareness of some of the island’s unhappiest issues, finds Alix Norman This is the ...

The Animal Party expressed its “disgust and outrage” on Friday after images surfaced of kittens which had been “brutally tortured and killed” in a cemetery in Larnaca. “There can be ...

The Nicosia municipality on Tuesday rejected allegations made against them by the Green party that they had drowned kittens. The kittens were found dead in the Misiaouli and Kavazoglu park ...

Paphos’ well-known and well-loved Tala Cat Park may not survive the winter. Alix Norman finds out how the dream has faded If there’s a cat matriarch of Cyprus, it’...

The veterinary services on Wednesday detailed the procedure for getting cat-covid medicine, after cabinet last week approved the use of covid meds for humans to be repurposed for cats. The ...

The Cyprus Veterinary Association (PVA) said on Friday they welcomed the cabinet decision to offer stores of human coronavirus medication at a discounted rate to help combat the strain that ...

Strays in Nicosia are suffering in the heatwave as “unconscientious” individuals are removing food and water bowls put out by volunteers, the Environmental Movement said on Tuesday. Animal activists and ...

The British Veterinary Association (BVA), has posted a statement on its website, calling on UK visitors to the island to take precautions against cat covid or feline infectious peritonitis (FIP). ...

Around 8,000 clinical cases of feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) were recorded from January until the first fortnight of July 2023, the pancyprian veterinary association (PVA) said on Tuesday, describing statements about 300,000 cat ...

Vets on Sunday made a final appeal to the government to buy medicines to treat Feline Infectious Peritonitis – FIP – otherwise known as cat Covid – a disease currently killing off large ...

The Veterinary Services on Thursday announced the start of the nationwide stray cat neutering programme, which will last until 2025. The implementation of the programme, which has a total budget of €300,000, ...

Vets on Wednesday appealed to the health ministry for hospital-grade FIP vaccines for cats amid an upsurge of the fatal disease caused by feline coronavirus. The state veterinary services said ...

Ten invasive species have been red listed in Cyprus for their dangerous impact on the environment, according to a presentation this week by BirdLife Cyprus and the forestry department. And ...