Associación Protectora Argos was founded in Seville on February 24, 2010, by a group of people who, having collaborated with other protective groups and shelters and knowing the difficulties of keeping a number of animals that is sustainable, decided to offer an alternative.

ARGOS was born therefore to provide a solution to the overcrowding of the traditional shelters. We keep our dogs in residences and foster homes. We help abandoned and mistreated animals in the hopes of finding them permanent families. 

Beatriz Sanchez-Elvira Ribas, Founder, Seville Spain
For information about Argos and their available dogs, please visit their website and follow them on Facebook.

DDEVIDA was created in response to the concerns and worries of a sector of society in Utrera, which grows every day in relation to the problems arising from the lack of sensitivity towards animals. 

We mainly focus on the increased sensitivity to animals through education and knowledge while we seek to improve their welfare. 

Our main objectives are: to defend and protect animal life, pursue and report non-compliance with existing animal protection laws and generally contribute to the welfare of animals and promote the integration of companion animals (dogs and cats) in society. 

This will develop, among other outreach activities respect and protection to animals as a cultural value, through those means available to do so. We will promote and cooperate in every activity that involves the welfare of animals in general and growing awareness towards these. 

We will work dissemination and public awareness for better relations between owners and non-pet owners.

Encarni R. Tortosa, Founder, Andalucia Spain

For information about DdeVida and their available dogs, please visit their website and follow them on Facebook.

Galgos en Familia  is a project to save galgos. Our main job is the recuperation of galgos, the majority from animal health centres and their rehabilitation until they are put up for adoption in Spain and outside of our borders.

Our galgos, after being rescued from the dog pounds and off the streets, are checked by a vet who perform all the basic tests for the most common illnesses such as distemper, filarial, ehrlichia, anaplasmosis, lyme disease and leishmania. After receiving their treatment, depending on each case, they are vaccinated, sterilized and microchipped.

The adoption process of our galgos, once they are fully recovered, starts with a questionnaire and a home visit of the family interested in adopting. If all goes well then the adoption contract will be signed and then finally there is a follow up of the animal in its new family.

Our work would not be possible without the selfless and loyal help from foreign associations who handle and endorse the adoptions in their countries and also offers us the security and confidence of a better life for our dogs, with their tireless efforts of finding families, with full and complete contracts and follow ups that are regular reported to us.

Vera Thorenaar, Founder, Malaga Spain

For information about Galgos en Familia and their available dogs, please visit their website and follow them on Facebook. 

Ibizan Hound Rescue is a small rescue for podencos that does not have kennels of their own. We have always preferred to foster rescues in our own home and have attempted to keep their numbers within reason.

Our attempts are now futile as the need to help abandoned podencos is simply at critical mass. We must often resort to renting space at kennels and using paid foster situations when available.

All rescued dogs require neutering, vaccinations, and passports. A few of IHR dogs are long-term residents as they may never overcome their fears enough to be able to live anywhere but with them. Rescuing and caring for abandoned dogs is an ongoing expense that we wish we could manage on our own, but simply can’t without donations. 

We are desperate for financial support to continue our work saving podencos. They actively seek sponsors to help care for their poor puppies and dogs through a recurring payment sponsorship program or through donations towards veterinary costs and the work that goes into readying the dogs for re-homing.

Diane and Brian Hughes, President and Director
Valerie Wood, Founder

For information about Ibizan Hound Rescue and their available dogs, please visit their  website and follow them on Facebook.

SOS Podenco Rescue was formed in September 2013 and came about purely by chance. Independantly from each other, Maria Casares and Ulrika Schofield spotted a young, rough coated Podenco named Ray on Facebook who was awaiting death in the killing station in Valencia. They both set about finding a rescuer for him but found themselves stonewalled at every turn. He had only days to live and they had to act quickly. As luck would have it, a Facebook friend who knew both of them, picked up their separate pleas for help, contacted both Maria and Ulrika individually and suggested they team up and rescue Ray themselves. They joined forces, raised funds, found a safe residency for him and bought him free — SOS Podenco Rescue was born!

They do not have their own kennels or property in Spain but use a privately run kennel establishment in Zaragoza, where their dogs are superbly well cared for, thanks to our friend Pilar Sanchez Gomez and her team of ADALA Zaragoza.

SOS Podenco Rescue is entirely reliant on donations for everything they do. Not a single cent is wasted or spent on anything other than the dogs! SOS Podenco Rescue is run entirely by volunteers who all give their time generously without expecting anything in return — apart from seeing one of their dogs leaving for a happier and brighter future in his new forever home!

Maria Casares and Ulrika Schofield, Founders, Zaragoza

For information about SOS Podenco Rescue and their available dogs, please visit their website and follow them on Facebook.

In Spain the Post Houses (called Casa de Postas) were born with the purpose of providing lodging and provisioning to the men who decided to embark on a journey through the complicated paths of antiquity in search of a new life, as well as serve as a point of exchange of letters and packages from kingdoms far away.

Casa de Postas was born with this in mind. Casa de Postas is a small animal shelter located in the   Sevillian countryside, where our rescued dogs live in a familiar environment waiting for their opportunity to start a new life. At present we shelter more than 30 dogs, some live in semi-freedom in small groups, and others, who arrive more delicate, indoors with their caretaker.

Unfortunately, Seville is the European capital of abandonment and Andalucia one of the areas of Spain that is more rooted with the hunting with dogs. Dogs that are mostly discarded when they lose the vigorousness to hunt or are simply not worth hunting. The “lucky” ones are abandoned to their fate, many others are brutally mistreated or killed.

All of our dogs are delivered once their recovery has been completed. Sterilized, vaccinated and with controls of Mediterranean diseases (leishmania, filaria, micro-filaria, erlichia and anaplasma).

We feel very fortunate to have the possibility to dedicate our time to do what we like most, to change lives. Our shortest project is to move to a larger farm, where our dogs can enjoy larger areas to live, and we can accommodate even more dogs.

Javier Jurado, Founder, Sevilla Spain

For information on their available dogs, please follow them on Facebook.