Javea Feral Cat Assocation

There are lots of ways you can help:

1. Make a one off donation here or at one of our collection points

2. Put a collecting tin in your shop/bar business

3. Help us by joining our regular feeding teams in the Javea area

4. Make a small regular monthly donation

5. Volunteer

6. Fundraising

How to donate money to us 

Making a donation here to Javea Feral Cats is really easy and all donations large or small help towards the cost of the sterilisation programme.

 

Use the Donate button to pay through your PayPal account or send  cheque directly to Javea feral Cat Association
 

If you wish to make a direct bank transfer, please contact Liz on Facebook Messenger (Elizabeth Trafford) for bank details or e-mail liz@javeafralcats.org

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What does your money do?

Currently ( February 2026) Javea council is supplying money to cover the cost of neutering street cats. However, we still need money to cover other veterinary costs such as blood tests, veterinary checks for found/ abandoned cats and kittens, vaccinations, flea and worm treatments plus the cost of buying new trapping equipment.

Once a cat has been caught in one of our automatic traps, it is transferred from this to a cage called a “restrainer” cage.  This is not nearly as bad as it sounds but enables the vet to immobilise the cat so that a sedative injection can be given. 

At no time during the trapping and transferring is the cat actually handled as they obviously are very frightened at this stage and can, and do, go a bit wild!   Once the cat has been anaesthetised, it is spayed (female) or castrated (male).  Castrating a male cat does not involve invasive surgery,  unlike a spaying operation on a female.  The female cat will be left with a wound on her abdomen just a few centimetres long and with stitches that will dissolve without any other veterinary intervention. 

After the operation, the cat is returned to a cage and put in a quiet place to recover.  If possible, the cats are kept in a warm, quiet place overnight before being returned to where they were caught.  Whenever we can, depending on volunteers, female cats are kept con