A WESTLANDS campaigner is continuing her crusade to help animals overseas.

Patricia Dymock is the founder of the Kismet Account - Animal Samaritans Abroad.

It funds trips overseas to sterilise cats and dogs.

Thanks to her dedication, a veterinary team has just returned from a successful five-day trip to Gran Canaria, where 92 cats were treated.

A tourist contacted Patricia to voice her concerns about high numbers of feral cats at apartment complexes in the resort of Puerto Rico.

Patricia promised to send a veterinary team to the sunny island as soon as possible.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) International donated drugs and Patricia's charity stumped up the veterinary team fees.

Volunteers had to pay their own way. Patricia, who usually joins the team, couldn't go on the Canary Islands trip, because of ill health.

Work began as soon as the animal lovers touched down.

They firstly set up cat traps - a basket containing food. The felines were taken to a property transformed into a makeshift surgery where they were anaesthetised, neutered or spayed, given an antibiotic, de-wormed and ear-tipped to show they had been sterilised.

First Choice Holidays donated four apartments for the team.

The volunteers made contact with a hotel manager who wanted to help the charity's crusade and he promised them free accommodation if they visited again.

Patricia hopes to persuade complex owners to have "cat cafes" which would be small kennel structures where animals could have a drink and food.

The Paddock Way resident said: "Along with the sterilisation programme this will make cats tamer and more content and they will be an asset and not a liability."

Patricia has been organising welfare trips to Spain and its islands, northern Cyprus and Tunisia since the early 1980s. Another trip is planned in November.

Anyone who can make a donation or become a volunteer can call Patricia on (01905) 771343.