Backyard Kittens in Istanbul

aww.. how sweet.

How could anyone pick a favorite picture. I love them all. Your neighborhood is my type of neighborhood since I would be feeding all the kitties and their mamas too. Hopefully someone will be able to give a few of them a home.

I'm a monkey kitty in a tree - and I like adventure! And I'll fall into all my friend kitties...

Wonderful you care enough to feed these kitties and you must as you took all these lovely photos.

"The food man iz cumin!" A lovely bunch of ferals. living the harsh, free life but fully equipped with a loving Mom and helpful neighbors. May they do well, since we can't save them all. They are little gems.

Sweet. But without wishing to rain on the parade, so many strays should not be allowed to happen. Maybe starting a campaign to spay and neuter strays in your neighborhood would be a worth while action?

how can i pick just one? they're all so adorable! its a shame no one can keep them...

For feral kittens they sure have a fortunate life. Great photos of some very cute babies.

simply adorable. we all luv kitties. so for the love of GOD please get them all fixed!

"The Better to Hear You With, My Dear!"

Hello everyone ,thanks for the comments and big thank you to Andrea for posting these.
Let me say I hear some of you clearly , but big but ,I am not lazy far from it ,in the last two weeks I have rescued 3 kittens ,2 were less than a day old abandoned on a rooftop during a storm ,mother had given birth during the storm she moved below to give birth to another 3 that morning.
You have to live here in istanbul to understand,there at least at a guess a million wild street cats here in the city. every day i go out into the city and i could come home with 50 kittens a day right now has it is the season.
me and my wife have a cat called Fistik ,chinchilla breed rescued 6 years ago dumped on the street,she is not the friendiest of cats in fact she never goes out .me and my wife do all we can to comfort the kittens ,many had eye infections we got antibiotics for them .
we have to be strong minded not to stop at every kitten we see ,we do what we can along with the neighbours .at another guess probably 150 cats in our neighbourhood alone. dogs rarely venture into the street as the cats attack them in groups ,you see these are pure wild street cats,long legs and muscular appearance far from the homely friendly cat most all have short hair . I guess you have to live here not a 2 week vacation to understand.
so there you are we do what we can with our hearts ,we feed them ,we clean them,we nurse them but soon these will venture off .
as for the mother of these you cant get near her she is ferocious and frequently hisses at anything near her .
anyway hope you enjoyed the photographs there are many more happy moments at my blog ,

brian...

very nice pics, adorable kitties! I love you and your neighborhood. Keep up the good work.

Thank you for sharing your beautiful pictures with us and for calling attention to the plight of these cats. I admit I saw the photos with somewhat of a sinking heart this morning since I know how this group responds. They are very much lovers of cats (as am i with 4 rescue cats) but are not always kind to humans who show them a different view of the world. I appreciate and admire your work and I understand the challenges you face in the process of going through the streets of a city that is overrun with strays and where there may well not be facilities to perform the sorts of spaying and neutering that is required. It is a big world and within it is a wide range of attitudes toward animals. Some are hard for those of us in parts of the US to accept and I fear we too often take it out on the one who brings the message, although I hope that at some point people do learn a little about the range of attitudes and challenges diversity brings. I for one really do appreciate your work and your photographs and the education you have provided for those who read this list (or that I hope you have provided). Thank you and don't feel bad!

Great pictures and thank you for all you do for the kitties you are right unless we are there we cannot judge, we are lucky the kitties have you and your wife and neighbors

Thank you for caring for all those beautiful kittens and for sharing them with us, istanbulblogger!

Adorable!!! The ignorance of some of these comments bothered me quite a lot! While I fully support TNR programs, I think we should understand that most communities in the world simply don't have the resources for this sort of thing. Please don't rush to judgement!

I am glad to tell you all that these 5 kittens are growing rapidly ,whilst the mother has not been seen for the last month they have adopted another mother who sadly had lost all her 5 kittens .it is relly quite amazing to still watch these kittens daily and how they inherited another mother ,who calls out and they come running ,spend the afternoons all snuggled up to each other for a siesta .a stray ginger kitten has joined the pack so we now have 6 healthy kittens still being fed by us all in the neighbourhood.

brian