Tag: animals
ANIMAL HOUSE: Another good year for Valencia’s Bioparc
LAST year was yet another success for Valencia city’s Bioparc animal refuge. Always keen to escape the ‘zoo’ tag...
IT’S A DOG’S LIFE: Animal welfare experts in Valencia warn that leaving pets out in the cold can lead...
LEAVING pets outside in extreme weather conditions is a crime punishable with prison, animal welfare societies in Valencia are warning.
Town “committed to animal welfare” rewarded with ‘no-slaughter policy’ for stray pets in Spain’s Costa Blanca
SAN FULGENCIO City Council has launched a new and improved service to deal with the area’s lost and found animals, with full...
Stray cats more at risk during coronavirus lockdown, says rescue centre on Spain’s Costa Blanca as it pleads for...
BIG Red's Animal Rescue Centre in Almoradi, Costa Blanca South, has at least nine cats that will need new homes from the...
In Spain three animals are abandoned every five minutes
The group also points to the recent surge in the adoption of pets, which it claims can actually help perpetuate the cycle of ‘animal abuse’
Becoming auntie to a herd of stray cats in southern Spain is harder than you think, writes Belinda Beckett
But the whole idea of being a colony auntie or uncle is that you have gained the cats’ trust, probably by feeding them
‘Hero’ expat donates a whopping 300 TINS of food to Costa del Sol dog sanctuary in need
It comes after the Estepona-based shelter made a plea on Facebook for tinned food this week
Seven Spanish traditions of extreme animal torture that MUST be stopped
Below we have rounded up seven of the country’s most sickening practices which must be stopped.
Pigging out: Spain’s agrarian sector rose for second year in the row
Animal production continues to dominate compared to weaker vegetal data numbers, part of which was caused by an increase in wildfires and drought this year.
WATCH: Moment Malaga police capture giant snake
The serpent had devoured two swallows before it was caught
Adana dog shelter pleas for more volunteers
Centre helpers, fundraisers and foster carers are all needed by Estepona’s Adana Dog Shelter
EXCLUSIVE: Spanish hunters suspected of animal slaughter on British expat’s farm
Detectives from the environment section Seprona said it was one of the worst attacks they had seen
British expat’s horror to find animal massacre in new Spanish home
EXCLUSIVE: Mother-of-three Kerry Matthews was appalled to discover at least 13 dead animals, some with their throats slit, on taking possession of a new rental home, in Antas, Almeria
Animal rights group fighting against closure of Mijas shelter
The Andalucian government is threatening to close a shelter in Mijas that homes 250 animals
Animal rescue crisis
The Olive Press is giving its full support to whatever is now deemed best for the animals at Kim's Animal Rescue Centre
Dog fight waging between Mijas animal centre boss and former workers calling for its closure
A battle is being waged between obsessed animal-lover Kim Halliwell and a group of former volunteers, who want her rescue centre shut down
Rising use of poison is wiping out Ronda wildlife
Environmental groups call for increased action and tougher sentences
Rare rhino born in Spanish nature park
White rhino the first to be born in the park for 16 years
Mijas animal shelter full to bursting
Proteccion de Animales Domesticos (PAD) currently has 180 cats and 35 dogs that need rehoming
Animal charity fundraisers
ANIMAL charity PAD are hosting two fundraisers this weekend. Ladies are invited to a lunch at La Plaza in Rivera del Sol this Friday (October...
Spanish kittens saved by new home
Brothers Huey, Duey and Luey have been given a home thanks to a recent Olive Press article
Dealing with deaf cats
Celia Haddon looks at how to take care of cats with hearing problems
Meet Rosie, the blind donkey
Left abandoned and blind since birth, she is now being cared for at a rescue centre in Alhaurin el Grande
EXCLUSIVE: ‘They are animals’
By Andrew Pearce: Distraught mother of Dan Smith murdered on the Costa del Sol slams the intimidation of witnesses
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