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‘Turkish shave’ for the Express Tours Dog!
This lovely Kalkan street dog, which is known as the ‘Express Tours Dog’ due to its favourite location, is now feeling much better since its recent ‘haircut’. One of Kapsa’s volunteers, Linda, took the dog to the vet for what is becoming an annual shave. The dog is over 15Read More
Nancy – A Dumped Dog With Burns on Paws
NANCY – another dumped dog in Kalkan – with severe burns and needing veterinary care for this and other problems. At 6 am one morning recently while one of the KAPSA volunteers was walking her dogs, she noticed a small female dog in the bushes on some scrubland. SheRead More
KAPSA in a Time of Covid19
Update March 2021: This post was originally written a year ago, but as we now know, things have not changed much. The pandemic is still with us and travel around as well as to and from Turkey is restricted for many. We continue to help the street animals in anyRead More
KAPSA & Animal Welfare Education
Over the years, KAPSA volunteers have worked incredibly hard in the field of education. As a charity, two of our stated aims are: To work with the local community to show the importance of having owned animals neutered. To offer free sterilisation for animals in under privileged households. To improveRead More
Lovely Dog Iris Looking for a Home – ADOPTED
Iris was found in Yesilkoy back in February, being chased by other street dogs and absolutely terrified. Gulfem took her in and together with foster carers has looked after Iris since then, but she really does need a permanent loving home of her own. She is a very sweet, gentle,Read More
Winter Feeding Program Update
19/20 KAPSA FEEDING FINAL UPDATE From President Sandra Osbourne. November to July! – Our usual and annual, winter feeding programme commenced at the end of October as many restaurants closed, the number of businesses/locals reduced and our visitors disappeared. Sadly the situation stayed the same at the end of theRead More
Rocky Desperate for a Home – ADOPTED
Poor Rocky has had rather a lot of ups and downs in his young life so far, and really does need a genuine forever home where he can be happy. He originally came to KAPSA’s attention after being found in the village of Kinik with a broken leg back inRead More
Watson’s Give the Dog a Bone Fundraiser
UPDATE: Watson’s Give the Dog a Bone appeal has now finished and Dean, Watson and everyone at KAPSA would like to thank all those that donated and helped to raised £560.00 towards our Winter Feeding program. Massive thanks! Dean adopted Watson [Hector as he was known] earlier this year,Read More
A Wedding Tail
Our work would not be possible without the funds our supporters raise or donate, and every donation from the smallest to the biggest helps a street animal in some way. Over the years supporters have come up with myriad ways to raise money for KAPSA and of course, we runRead More
Patara School Has 2 New Rescue Puppies
It is not every day you get to deliver two beautiful puppies to a school of excited school children, but this morning that is exactly what we did. The Turkish government department responsible for Education has started an initiative encouraging all schools across the country to have animals in theirRead More