As a bullied child, Anna Katogiritis received companionship and comfort from the stray cats on the Greek island where she grew up. After moving to the US and becoming a vet, she vowed to come back to return the favor.
Growing up on the remote island of Karpathos, Greece, in the 1990s, Anna Katogiritis struggled to make friends at school and says she was bullied for being “small-sized.” But she was able to find comfort and friendship from another source – the thousands of stray cats that roamed the island, which is situated between Rhodes and Crete. Greece has a stray cat and dog population of around three million, one of the largest in the world, according to leading pet food company Mars Petcare.
“We’ve had kids join every single program and see the actual surgeries if they want to. Then we teach them how to trap animals. We teach them the whole process. “So, it’s changing mentalities, and then having a long-term effect for the benefit of the animals.” Katogiritis recounts how a young girl from one of the elementary schools she visited in Karpathos went a local vet and announced that she was ready to become the island’s next vet in order to help the strays.
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