Taking care of our cats in our new home in Castrocucco di Maratea, Southern Italy

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  Descripción

  +++++ Freshly moved back to Italy and just settling in+++++
  
  We have just finalised our move back to Italy and we've had amazing help from workawayers. While we settle in and try to sort some really basic things and make this place more livable and homey, we probably cannot host for a short while (rest of December/January).
  
  Unless you are kind of lost somewhere nearby and in urgent need to find a placement (we always try to help out, too), better come at a later time if you're interested in our cats :)
  
  We will update our profile soon with more information about our home, the cats' current life, the environment etc.
  
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  The cats and us - how it all started
  
  Our cat story began in 2020, when we moved from the UK to Italy with an "open end approach", not knowing how long we might stay or where we might go next.
  
  We started taking care of the many feral street cats and occasional stray dogs and before we knew it ended up with 10 + cats inside the house who became our permanent family. In collaboration with local vets and an adoption sanctuary in the North of Italy we managed to get a few more dozens off the streets and into families.
  
  For annoying bureaucratic reasons we had to move to Germany in December 2022. Zwickau was a random choice really, as neither of us has any connection with the place. Now it's time to start fresh in Italy :)
  
  We got into Workaway thanks to a Couchsurfer who stayed with us in Italy and told us about her cat sitting experience through the platform. It sounded perfect for us, as especially at that time we sometimes had to leave the country and needed reliable people to look after our cats.
  
  
  About us:
  
  We lived in the UK for most of our lives but are both only half British and half in identity crisis 🤣. We got married in 2019 and moved to Italy one year later. We are vegan and really love cooking and trying out new things and experimenting in the kitchen. The cats are not vegan and get only high quality, mainly wet food.
  
  Our cooking styles are respectively fairly different from each other's so we certainly cover all types of dishes. Levent is an excellent chef, does amazing burgers, sandwiches and most importantly Turkish specialties. I (Sonia) claim to make better pasta dishes than any Italian and I often cook huge vegetable stews and soups, but Levent is definitely the main chef, as I hardly have time and not quite as much passion for really nice cooking.
  
  We have no fixed times for eating and we have our individual rhythms, we basically never eat at the same time, so please feel free to just listen to your own hunger drive and eat whenever you want.
  
  Our daily life is rather unspectacular. We get up early and don't go to bed super late mostly and work from home and take care of the animals in between. We very rarely go out in the evening, even though we'd like to do it more often. On the weekends, provided the weather is nice, we usually go out into nature.
  
  As for the rest, we're fairly uncomplicated people, we take each day as it comes without expectations, we're calm but also love good conversations and love to hear about other people's life journeys and experiences.

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  Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  Cuidado de animales

  Ayuda doméstica

  Ayuda informática
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  Intereses

  

  Mascotas

  

  Idiomas

  

  Vegetariano o vegano

  

  Escritura

  

  Cocina y alimentación

  

  Animales

  

  Playa
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  Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

  Animals always teach so so much. When we're not away, we would personally also be around with the workawayer(s). We can teach you a lot about health and nutrition, about life in general the way we live it and see it.

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  Ayuda

  Quick summary of the things already explained in the introduction:
  
  - cat feeding
  - cleaning litter boxes
  - cat cuddling and playing
  - keeping the house "tidy"
  - potentially helping with our "cat sanctuary" Social Media presence

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  Idiomas

  Idiomas hablados
  Alemán: Fluido
  Inglés: Fluido
  Italiano: Fluido
  Turco: Fluido
  Español: Intermedio
  Francés: Intermedio

  Este anfitrión ofrece intercambio de idiomas
  Languages are one of the most fascinating things to dedicate your time to. The most present languages in our daily life are English, Turkish, German and Italian. We're actually sometimes speaking some hybrid language of them all but we can definitely teach anyone interested a bit of any of those languages. On our bookshelf there are actually many more study books for various languages of the world, but sometimes more for decoration 😁
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  Alojamiento

  Workawayers always have their private bedroom.

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  Algo más...

  We have heard some not so nice stories from workawayers concerning previous experiences. We do not use this platform to exploit people, make people work for hours on end while being lazy ourselves or anything like that. We think this platform is perfect for our cat vs. travel dilemma and are genuinely interested in the cultural exchange that comes with hosting.
  
  For how things are now, you'll have plenty of "time off", you can go to the beach or near by cities/villages any time and just feel free and at home. We will host you like old friends and hopefully when you leave you are a new friend :)

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  Un poco más de información

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    Acceso a Internet

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    Acceso a Internet limitado

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    Tenemos animales

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    Somos fumadores

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    Puede alojar familias

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  Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

  Definitely.

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  ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

  Dos

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  Mis animales / mascotas

  

  Fatty

  Fatty earned his name early in life when he quickly outgrew all his siblings in all directions :D. He kind of had the name "Mario" in the beginning but somehow "Fatty" just stuck and it's the name he reacts to. He's so amazing and adorable but always peckish and very sedentary. Comfortably sitting in his favourite spots, he will watch the others run around and won't move unless he suspects food somewhere. At the same time he's just so hilarious, always makes the best faces and poses for the funniest photos.

  

  Maus

  Maus is 100 % Sonia's girl. She won't give you much attention but she'll be friendly and let you touch her. But she will let you know that you're not her human :D. She's the cleverest out of all the cats, as in she is the first to figure out how to open doors/cabinets or other forbidden things and she can somehow always outwit you when you try to keep her from something. She feels very entitled to everything basically and Levent would say that Sonia totally spoiled her.

  

  Lale and Jumbo

  Lale (completely black) and Jumbo (striped) are an established couple. They absolutely love each other and will sometimes show lots of affection in public. Jumbo is super clumsy and loves to jump into people's head/hair when bending down to him. He's very attached to Levent. When petting, he doesn't like to be patted from the top / on his back, but more on his chest and chin from below/frontal. His girlfriend Lale is feisty! She can be a massive bully towards some other cats sometimes but plays an angel with humans. She loves attention and head touches.

  

  Melody

  Melody is our untouchable cat. Even we cannot touch her. After many years she has learned to be more relaxed and comfortable around humans and she absolutely loves the other cats. But she wants to keep her safe distance to humans. When you walk past her or need to grab something close to her, avoid eye contact, so she doesn't feel you're after her or deliberately invading her personal space :)

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