• Doing home visits to ensure that our pets find/have suitable living conditions
• Becoming foster parents
• Taking care of a feeding station for feral cats
• Helping us to control the local feral cat population

• Helping out in our Charity Boutique
• Supporting our fundraising activities (Pluto-festival/market, bookstall, flea market stall, antique market stall)
• Sorting, selecting and preparing secondhand clothes for sale
• Helping us to inform the general public about our work & finding new members

Times of crisis

Despite being able to count on a growing number of volunteers, we still do not have enough helping hands during certain days (sometimes weeks).

This is normally the case when

• we run our sterilization programs under time pressure.
• people abandon a large number of kittens at the same time. Every year in May we have to take in at least 40 kittens within a short period of time.
• large-scale fire threatens the feral cat population.
• PLUTO organizes one of its major fundraising events.

Normal times

Even during normal times, there is more than enough to do. The phone rings basically non-stop at our points of contact.

This can have numerous reasons, for example:

• An animal lover informs us that a dog in the neighbourhood is being maltreated.
• Someone finds a cat injured by a car.
• A tourist lets us know that a mother cat with her kittens are living in the garden of his rented villa.

Any of these calls means hours - often even days - of work for our volunteers.

Especially cases of animal maltreatment push us quickly to our limits. They require following the proper legal procedure, involving a lot of paperwork and visits to local authorities. Only then do we have the chance to act on behalf of the animal.