Welcome to my very own animal rescue diary! 🐾

Hey there! I’m Pia, and animals are pretty much my entire personality at this point. It all started when I welcomed Charlie into my life. But then I had to move and couldn’t take him with me (heartbreaking, I know). So, my partner and I thought, why not become a foster home for dogs? And boom — chaos began.

We were already big animal lovers — we had two cats together: Leyla and Maex. A couple of weeks after moving in, I somehow ended up in the shelter’s cat room (don’t ask how, it just happened). That’s where I found a cat with severe anxiety who wasn’t up for adoption. Long story short—her name is now Yuna, and she is my baby. But even with a cat army forming, I still felt like something was missing.

One day, while scrolling through classified ads (like any normal person looking at puppies for no reason), I saw a post: “Foster home needed.” One week later, Mali moved in… and, well, never left. Foster fail on the first try. The next dog, Samy, was an instant adoption from Spain — we skipped the whole “fostering” step that time.

But I still wasn’t done. I needed to do more. So, I opened my laptop and searched: “Foster homes for cats.” And that’s how I truly fell down the rescue rabbit hole.

Now, I volunteer at Hunderettung Europa e.V. as team lead of the TikTok team, and I’m still fostering cats — so far, with no more accidental adoptions (yet). 😅