Lanzarote an Island located 125km of the coast of Africa part of the Canary Islands and one of 17 autonomous communities administered by Spain. A popular tourist destination year round due to its climate yet a few kms inland there is a very different story. Podencos are the primary dog chosen for hunting hidden away from view the situation for them is dire, held in underground caves and just like Mainland Spain high numbers are abandoned or handed into perreras every year. To re-home the podencos from Lanzarote is difficult due to lack of options for flights over seas, very few are re-homed to local people on the island.

It’s a small island with limited facilities and the perreras are unable to keep them due to lack of space so many podencos are euthanised or living in extremely cramped conditions. Saving the Lanzarote Podencos has been created to help and hopefully find more homes for them overseas with the collaboration of the Kennel Klub on Lanzarote and Podenco Friends on mainland Spain.

Our first rescue is of 6 Podencos just recently handed into a Perrera on the Island. All the Podencos will be attended by the Veterinary Clinic that works with Kennel Klub. Each will be fully vaccinated, health checked, blood tested and sent to the laboratories for Leishmania, Filaria, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma and will be issued with the original reports from the lab. They will be issued passports, microchipped, sterilized and accompanied with a letter of authority to change the microchip into the new owners name.

Once they are on mainland Spain this opens more opportunities for them to be adopted overseas.

To save the Lanzarote podencos and fully prepare them for travel to mainland Spain, tere are costs involved. Each dog will be 550 euros, this covers all the initial veterinary fees, residence fees on the island, flights and transport to Spain. Help is needed in donations or fundraisers.

Please support us to help the Lanzarote podencos find forever homes.

You can donate via pay pal or a bank transfer to the Kennel Klub on Lanzarote (Charity number CIF G76155860)
Banco Santander Central Hispano, account holder: Asociacion The Kennel Klub, IBAN ES28 0049 1491 7123 9007 2655. BIC: BSCHESMM, SWIFT: BSCHESXXX

PayPal is to: thekennelklub@outlook.com

Here are some of the beauties, including Hania, now in foster in the UK and wrapped up against the cold weather, bit of a change from sunny Lanzarote!