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Scalibor collars – protecting dogs from contracting Leishmania
Scalibor collars are highly effective at protecting dogs against Leishmania. They contain deltamethrin, an insecticide and repellent that prevents sand flies—the carriers of the Leishmania parasite—from biting your dog.Key points on how they protect your dog:- Anti-feeding Action: The collar repels sand flies, significantly reducing the risk of them transmitting the parasite during a blood meal.
- Proven Efficacy: Studies show it reduces sand fly blood-feeding by up to 90%.
- Duration: The collar typically provides active protection against sand flies for 5 to 6 months (though some formulations/guidelines suggest longer tick/mosquito
Spanish rescue shelters are always desperate for Scalibor collars to protect their dogs in the summer. Please consider purchasing some for them.
Where in the world dogs are at risk from contracting leishmania.
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Volunteering at a Spanish animal shelter
It’s not too late to volunteer at a Spanish rescue shelter for your holidays in 2026. Fundacion Benjamin Mehnert in Seville explains what is involved and how grateful the associations are for all the help they can get. Contact a shelter direct, they usually provide accommodation for volunteers too.
Other large shelter which would appreciate help are
Video of volunteering at Protectora Scooby Medina
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Spanish funding for animal shelters and feral cat colonies
If you have spent time in Spanish towns or cities, you have probably seen them. Small groups of cats living around parks, plazas, alleyways, and empty lots. Usually there is a feeding station, sometimes a small shelter, and almost always a local volunteer quietly looking after them.
The funding for local authorities is focused on managing these feral cat colonies in a humane way, as required under Spain’s Animal Welfare Law. This usually means trap-neuter-return programmes, maintaining colony records, and ensuring basic health monitoring. Trap-neuter-return is the standard humane approach. Cats are captured, sterilised, and returned to their original colonies instead of being removed or culled. Over time, this stabilises populations, reduces disease, and allows cats to live safely in familiar environments with ongoing care.A good example of how this looks in practice comes from Alhendín in Granada, where the municipality recently opened a “Cat Hotel.” It is a repurposed recycling container adapted to give colony cats shelter from heat, cold, and rain. It is a small project, but it shows how local authorities can adapt creatively when resources exist. (more…)
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Animal rescue could not operate without volunteers
Absolutely they are! Animal rescue, animal shelters, fostering, adopting, fund-raising. Animal rescue could not work without volunteers.
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Podencos on Ibiza – abandoned to survive as best they can
Screenshot What most tourists to the Island of Ibiza don’t see.
ROMERO is one of the unwanted podencos living on the streets of Ibiza.
Some animal protectors care touchingly about the animals, many tourists alert us and other organizations on the run, others just want to get rid of the uninvited, unloved inhabitants of the island. Many of the wild living podenco/mixes do not survive the cold winter, often suffer from hunger or thirst, are injured and then go crazy. (more…)
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Foods that are poisonous to dogs
Here’s a comprehensive list of foods poisonous to dogs. If you know your dog has eaten one of them and shows signs of being very ill, an immediate visit to the vet is a must.
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Helping a rescue dog adjust to a new home
I’ve had rescue dogs all my life, mostly from rescue associations. Most of them have come with problems, usually as a result of bad treatment in their past. One 4-year old galga took over 2 years before she was anything like a ‘normal’ dog, and that was after living with 4 other housemates. My current Spanish podenca came with a fear of men – what a surprise – after spending the first 7 years of her life shut in a shed and just let out for hunting. Even after over 4 years in our home, she is still nervous of men and many life situations.
So it is vitally important to understand the problems which adopting a rescue dog will bring with them, needing much patience whilst they adjust to home life, new people and situations.
Read about adopting a rescue dog article here.
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Podenca Reina hoping for a forever home
Reina – a queen Podenca. She was handed a hunter… and it makes us so sad to think how easily some people get tired of an animal when it stops serving them as a tool of work. Fortunately she’s still a happy, noble and affectionate hound and is looking forward to finally finding a real family.Almost 5 years old and sociable with other dogs. We don’t think she would fit in with cats because he has quite a hunter instinct.She is in Murcia and can be adopted anywhere in Spain, as long as they personally come to the shelter to pick her up.Para adoptarla podéis escribirnos a: adopcionesalmohadillas@gmail.com
