To animals, every day is the same, there are no fete days, bank holidays, Easter, Christmas. Their main concern is a warm bed, food and fresh water, and caring hands. Many people will have whizzed off to the Canary Islands for Christmas in the sun – spare a thought for all the volunteers working to look after all the abandoned and rescued dogs – specially the podencos – most of whom will spend their lives in a refuge unless they are adopted abroad.

Sara Protectora on Lanzarote has over 150 dogs and 70 cats. Read more about their work here – click on the Union Jack for the english pages. More on their work here and a photo album

These 3 are already in foster in the UK waiting for forever homes

Here’s an article I wrote about SARA a couple of years ago.

Here are just a few of the lovely podencos in the SARA Lanzarote shelter

Ramona
Convenia
Priscilla
Rain
Canfly
Marifye
Janubio