Travel Animal Rescue

Travel Animal Rescue Grassroots direct action initiative for nonhuman animals
UK-registered charity # 1203785
TNR-focused

Travel Animal Rescue Global is a non-speciesist animal rights organization whose mission is to prevent animal suffering before it’s created. Among other things, our Athens, Greece chapter focuses on the spay and neuter of free-living cats alongside the local community. 100% of donations go towards this work. We do not rescue, as we instead focus our resources on Trap-Neuter-Return while supporting

animal protection groups across the Global South. Animals who live unhoused on the street are at risk from severe weather, chronic illnesses, injuries, viruses and diseases, traffic accidents, and never experiencing love or care. Most of the illnesses and injuries they suffer from are completely preventable. By focusing on deworming, vaccinating, spaying, and neutering, we can help reduce their suffering and prevent the suffering of other animals. UK-registered charity # 1203785
Currently: 📍Athens, Greece 🇬🇷

🕊️ This little pidge was rescued at the same time as our rat friend.We have two pigeon flocks living nearby, and even th...
22/06/2025

🕊️ This little pidge was rescued at the same time as our rat friend.

We have two pigeon flocks living nearby, and even though they’re regularly fed, this is where we find most sick and injured pidges who we’ve rescued.

While walking down the street, we noticed her sat on the sidewalk, huddled against a wall.

This is never a good sign, as often when they’ve sat down in an unsafe place, something is really wrong.

If they’re sat down, we approach slowly and try to hand grab before they get spooked and try to escape.

Once we catch them, we gently hold around their torso keeping their wings flat to their body so they can’t flap and struggle.

We also cover their head and eyes so they calm down. In this case, we quickly grabbed a discarded paper package from the ground to hold her and cover her. We don’t need complex supplies to catch pigeons!

Pigeons generally can’t hurt us, even if then try to bite, so we shouldn’t hesitate trying to catch them.

🕊️ After investigating, we saw she had a bloodied wing, and a problem with one eye. We set her up inside, out of the heat to provide water and a safe space.

Once in a crate, we could take her to safety.

She needed veterinary care and specialist rehabilitation, so we took her to the local wildlife rehab center.

Even though pigeons are not considered wildlife legally or in the wildlife rescue space, this center luckily takes in most urban animal species that are not cats and dogs.

She is now in their care and will hopefully get the support she needs to recover.

In the past, we have volunteered in this space over several months, and broken wings are often repaired until the pidge is able to be released again.

🕊️ All species feel pain and deserve help, just like cats and dogs.

Please do not hesitate to help animals like rats and pigeons. They do not carry the plague. They pose no greater risk to our health than cats and dogs do.

Cages donated from SNIPi, sourced from .

🐀 Yesterday was the first time we intervened for a rodent in need.While walking down the street, we luckily happened to ...
21/06/2025

🐀 Yesterday was the first time we intervened for a rodent in need.

While walking down the street, we luckily happened to notice a rat being chased by a human.

After stopping the human and explaining she needed help and kindness, together we caught her and set her up inside, out of the sun, to decompress from the traumatic experience, and assess her situation.

Having never handled a rat before, we decided to empty the fabric bag we were carrying and catch her with that, to avoid direct contact and the possibility of bites, scratches, and risk to both human and animal.

Once in a crate, she stabilised a bit and drank some water, but the laboured breathing continued, and she was clearly emaciated and covered in fleas.

She needed veterinary care and specialist rehabilitation, so we took her to the local wildlife rehab center.

Even though rats are not considered wildlife legally or in the wildlife rescue space, this center luckily takes in most urban animal species that are not cats and dogs.

She is now in their care and will hopefully get the support she needs to recover.

🐀 All species feel pain and deserve help, just like cats and dogs.

Greece is listed as at “no-risk” for rabies, so please do not hesitate to help animals like rats and pigeons. They do not carry the plague. They pose no greater risk to our health than cats and dogs do.

🐈‍⬛ Our slides from  Online Kitten Conference this weekend, presenting our international work in T-N-V-R (Trap-Neuter-Va...
09/06/2025

🐈‍⬛ Our slides from Online Kitten Conference this weekend, presenting our international work in T-N-V-R (Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return).

The last few years we have been focusing on strategic CPM in 📍Athens, Greece 🇬🇷 and have experience to share around Practical Decision-Making for Kittens in a TNVR Program.

The presentation was full of resources - check our stories for direct links to sources so you can start implementing these approaches into your own CPM work!

Many thanks to .cat and for sharing your photos and stories with us to present to the OKC attendees!

Resources:

Assessing Your Community webinar: https://www.maddiesfund.org/assessing-your-community.htm

Building a TNR Movement webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCcPa3E99uw

Foundations of Shelter Management courses: https://battersea.learningpool.com/

Raising Confident, Healthy Kittens: https://fearfreepets.com/helping-shelters-fosters-raise-confident-healthy-kittens-video-series/



Humane CPM Guidance: https://www.icam-coalition.org/topic/humane-cat-population-management-guidance/

Kitten Quad Drug Protocol:https://cat-kind.org.uk/media/10661/neu_7999-kitten-neutering-principles_digital.pdf

Feline Fix By Five

Guess what has arrived...a new equipment donation from the UK!These shiny new transfer cages and dropper are from MDC Ex...
25/04/2025

Guess what has arrived...

a new equipment donation from the UK!

These shiny new transfer cages and dropper are from MDC Exports Ltd, generously donated by SNIP International.

SNIP-INTERNATIONAL.ORG

SNIPi has been donating trapping equipment to advance spay/neuter work for many years, all over the world. They are the true meaning of improving access to quality resources to build TNR capacity for deprived communities across the Global South.

MDC Exports equipment is amazing quality, but shipping costs to Greece from the UK are high, making them mostly inaccessible to our region.

This donation is a big deal! Thank you so much SNIPi!

If you are doing TNR in Athens, don’t forget to reach out if you need to borrow equipment. We also have stock of Tomahawk box traps and Metalcote droppers available for lending.

🐾 Meet Elen Konte.She is a founding member of a local rescue group, Alma Libre - Hellenic Animal Rescue. AL focuses on e...
18/03/2025

🐾 Meet Elen Konte.

She is a founding member of a local rescue group, Alma Libre - Hellenic Animal Rescue. AL focuses on emergency or extreme cases of rescue.

While there are many members, Elen is an important one. She has given so much of her energy to rescuing animals in dire need, of all species.

Tragically, her home burned a few weeks ago. This was the first of two cases of animal rescue organisation’s core team members homes catching fire within this last month.

The following slides show the destruction. Her home and four of her cats were engulfed in the fire.

Despite her own tragedy, Elen was present to support the second case of fire in Lamprini from SCARS home.

Elen has also participated in rescuing animals from summer wildfires in Greece. The coincidence of this happening to her is tragic.

Elen is left with nothing, and needs our support to rebuild her life, just as she has selflessly supported countless animals in Greece.

Greece is notorious for its drama and divides even within the animal rescue sector.

🐾 If we do not support each other in times of need so horrific as this, what kind of future are we creating for animals?

Please donate and share this campaign. 100% of the funds will go to Elen.

https://gogetfunding.com/support-for-an-animal-rescuer-after-a-fire-in-their-home/

15/03/2025

The annual winter kitten season is ending, where January and February usually reveal the highest number of pregnant female cats. THIS is the time to revisit all your colonies and check for preventable pregnancies. Here’s the result! Litters of pregnancies we couldn’t prevent in time. 🐾 These floppy babies sure are cute (and somehow friendly), but with no homes to rescue them into, we must leave them here, let the local taverna feed them daily, and hope they make it to spay/neuter age. Obviously, we got mum trapped and spayed immediately, as her kittens were at least one month old and eating solid food, so they were fine without her for 24h. Luckily, mum was also friendly and easy to catch with a dropper. She was spayed and returned to her kids 24h later. 🐈‍⬛ Typically, most managed areas are returned to very regularly, but unfortunately, we didn’t return to this specific area for months and months. If we had, this friendly mum cat would’ve been easily trapped and spayed way before she got pregnant this winter. Lesson learned. We’ll do better next time!

11/03/2025

Το απόγευμα του Σαββάτου 08/03/2025 το σπίτι των φίλων μας στα Πετρ

10/03/2025

Το σωματείο μας είναι μία ομάδα που αποτελείται από μονάδες.

Διαφορετικοί άνθρωποι με διαφορετικές αντιλήψεις πορεύονται μαζί σε έναν κοινό δρόμο, με μια συμπαγή και διαχρονική πορεία που μετράει χρόνια.

Οτιδήποτε μη διαυγές ή μη απόλυτα ξεκάθαρο έχει απορριφθεί ως ξένο σώμα—γιατί αυτό και είναι. Ίσως αυτός να είναι και ο λόγος που συνεχίζουμε να υπάρχουμε και να αγωνιζόμαστε.

Το σωματείο μας είναι μία ομάδα, αλλά απέναντι σε οποιαδήποτε πρόθεση βλαπτικής συμπεριφοράς γίνεται μία αδιαίρετη μονάδα.

Διανύουμε πολύ δύσκολες μέρες μετά το χθεσινό συμβάν. Έχουμε υποστεί μια τεράστια πληγή.

Η παραπληροφόρηση οργιάζει και λειτουργεί σαν αλάτι πάνω στις πληγές μας.

Θα σας παρακαλέσουμε—για αρχή—να μην αναμεταδίδετε ψευδείς πληροφορίες και να μην καταλήγετε σε αυτοσχέδια συμπεράσματα χωρίς γνώση.

Αναγνωρίζουμε την ευαισθησία και το συναίσθημά σας για το συμβάν και για όσους χάθηκαν. Ίσως, ως ένδειξη σεβασμού προς εκείνους αλλά και προς όσους από εμάς παραμένουν εδώ και προσπαθούν να βοηθήσουν, να ήταν καλό να αφήσουμε για λίγο τη σιωπή να μιλήσει. Γιατί, η αλήθεια είναι, ότι τα περισσότερα από εμάς έφυγαν μαζί τους.

Και κάτι ακόμα που θέλουμε να ξεκαθαρίσουμε με απόλυτη σιγουριά:

Τα ζώα που αναλαμβάνουμε φιλοξενούνται στα σπίτια μας. Δεν έχουμε καταφύγια, δεν έχουμε χώρους φιλοξενίας. Τα ζώα ζουν μαζί μας, με τα παιδιά μας, με τις οικογένειές μας.

Ποιος δεν προσφέρει το καλύτερο στην οικογένειά του και στο σπίτι του;

Ψάχνουμε απαντήσεις και προσπαθούμε να επουλώσουμε τις πληγές μας—αν επουλωθούν ποτέ.

Ευχαριστούμε θερμά.

Our association is a team made up of individuals.

Different people with different perspectives walk together on a common path, with a solid and enduring journey that spans years.

Anything unclear or not entirely transparent has been rejected as a foreign element—because that’s exactly what it is. Perhaps this is the reason we continue to exist and fight.

Our association is a team, but in the face of any harmful intent, it becomes a united front.

We are going through very difficult days after yesterday’s incident. We have suffered a tremendous wound.

Misinformation is spreading and acts as salt on our wounds.

We kindly ask you—for starters—not to spread false information and not to draw improvised conclusions without knowledge.

We recognize your sensitivity and emotions regarding the incident and those who were lost. Perhaps, as a sign of respect for them and for those of us who remain here and strive to help, it would be best to let silence speak for a while. Because the truth is, most of us left with them.

And one more thing we want to clarify with absolute certainty:

The animals we take in are fostered in our homes. We do not have shelters; we do not have designated facilities. The animals live with us, with our children, with our families.

Who wouldn’t provide the best for their family and their home?

We are searching for answers and trying to heal our wounds—if they ever heal.

Thank you sincerely.

🐈‍⬛ The slides from our .gr in 📍 Athens 🇬🇷 presentation on our international work in T-N-V-R (Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Retu...
18/02/2025

🐈‍⬛ The slides from our .gr in 📍 Athens 🇬🇷 presentation on our international work in T-N-V-R (Trap-Neuter-Vaccinate-Return).

Presented by .cat x

A sincere thank you to Olga Omikron and Ελληνογαλλική Σχολή Saint Joseph Πεύκης for your dedication to protecting commun...
14/02/2025

A sincere thank you to Olga Omikron and Ελληνογαλλική Σχολή Saint Joseph Πεύκης for your dedication to protecting community cats, and your donation towards their spay, neuter, and care raised by your school and students at last year’s Christmas bazaar!

Your generosity makes a difference! The donation will go directly towards their sterilisation and parasite treatment, and a better future.

31/01/2025

Friends, do you know a charity or NGO registered in Greece? Can you help us find an accountant in Athens familiar with registering a Greek charity or business?

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