{"id":7691,"date":"2025-06-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costablanca-magazin.com\/?p=7691"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:01:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:01:58","slug":"onkas-second-chance-animal-welfare-costa-blanca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/costablanca-magazin.com\/en\/residenten\/tiere-natur\/onkas-zweite-chance-tierschutz-costa-blanca\/","title":{"rendered":"Onka's second chance - Animal welfare Costa Blanca"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Onka's second chance - Animal welfare Costa Blanca<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Without the help of animal welfare\nstreet cats on the Costa Blanca would be lost. Cat Onka has found her home,\nothers continue to search. <\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Warmth, the gentle purring of my mum, the closeness of my siblings - these are my earliest memories. But then came the day when everything changed: Suddenly all I felt was cold and loneliness. At just two months old, I found myself in a cardboard box, abandoned on a street corner, my fate left to the elements. I am Onka, and my story is just one of many here on the Costa Blanca, where countless cats are abandoned every year.<\/p>

Life on the road quickly taught me its hard rules. To avoid the huge, noisy metal boxes on wheels. To search for something to eat in rubbish bins with a growling stomach. Finding a safe place to sleep every night. In the streets, numerous cat colonies fight for survival every day. Without the dedicated volunteers who regularly bring food and water, many of us wouldn't stand a chance.
As a small kitten, I was particularly vulnerable. Parasites and hunger plagued me, every day became a battle. Then I noticed a woman who kept appearing in the same place and leaving food. I watched her suspiciously from a distance. After a few days, she arrived with a strange box - what I didn't realise at the time was that this box would become the turning point in my life.<\/p>

Dedicated volunteers from animal welfare organisations look after street cats like me. They catch us, have us neutered and then usually take us back to our familiar surroundings, where they continue to look after us. Or they try to rehome us, like at Aldea Felina, an animal shelter exclusively for cats. Over 110 of my fellow cats live here and are waiting for a new home. The new Spanish animal welfare laws prohibit the euthanasia of healthy animals. Sandra, one of the helpers at the shelter, took me to the vet. For the first time, I received caring attention.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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I was vaccinated and a tiny microchip was placed under my skin - my identity, which has been mandatory for all cats since the new Spanish animal welfare laws of 2023. I was neutered when I was six months old - an important procedure that prevents more unwanted kittens from being born and having to share my fate. After my operation, I was allowed to live with Ivan as a foster cat. In his home, I slowly learnt to trust people.<\/p>

One day, Anusch and Alex came to meet me. I immediately saw in their eyes that they would be my new forever home. With my own European pet passport, I finally started my journey to a new life full of warmth, love and security.
My story shows: Every animal deserves respect and a second chance. The animal welfare organisations on the Costa Blanca do extraordinary things with limited resources. Their work saves lives like mine.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Placement centres: More cats<\/strong> for adoption can be found<\/strong>
at the Aldea Felina in Denia (https:\/\/aldeafelina.es\/<\/a>)
or the Protectora Benidorm (https:\/\/www.protectorabenidorm.org<\/a>), which also finds dogs.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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How you can help<\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\u25b6 Adopt an animal from the animal shelter
\u25b6 Donate for medical care and food
\u25b6 Become a foster family for animals with special needs
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Onkas zweite Chance – Tierschutz Costa Blanca Ohne die Hilfe des Tierschutzes w\u00e4ren Stra\u00dfenkatzen an der Costa Blanca wohl verloren. Katze Onka hat ihr Zuhause gefunden, andere suchen weiter. W\u00e4rme, das sanfte Schnurren meiner Mutter, die N\u00e4he meiner Geschwister \u2013 das sind meine fr\u00fchesten Erinnerungen. Doch dann kam der Tag, an dem alles anders wurde: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tiere-natur"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t