Villa Pepa Animal Shelter is a nonprofit association whose main objective is to rescue abandoned animals and find a good home for each of them.
It is legally registered under number 2393 and tax identification number G-05231113 in the region of Castile and León.
The association was officially established in mid-2011, but Pepa García, the president, had already spent more than 6 years taking in and caring for abandoned animals in her home, rehabilitating them and placing them for adoption with the collaboration of other animal protection associations.
Over these 10 years of activity, more than 600 animals have passed through Villa Pepa and now enjoy a permanent home.
Villa Pepa does not have a shelter, so the animals stay at Pepa García's home and in other foster homes, where they are cared for with great affection until they are adopted.
Recently, due to the number of abandoned animals we have been rescuing, we have been forced to rent a rural property with a small house to provide shelter for all those animals for whom we no longer had room.
We are carrying out small-scale construction work to make it usable and equip it as well as possible so that our dogs receive good care until they find their opportunity.
We also have a colony of more than 30 feral cats, so we built a cat shelter where they can take refuge from the cold and rain.
Villa Pepa is located in El Tiemblo, next to San Martín de Valdeiglesias.
Due to our location, many of the dogs we take in come from hunting backgrounds and have never lived in a home or received care, so we socialize them and help them overcome their fears in order to adapt them to life in the city, since our animals are only placed for adoption in Madrid and may only be kept as companions, not to guard properties or hunt.
At present, we have nearly one hundred animals in our care.
Our animals can be adopted or sponsored (those that have been living with us for a long time and would have difficulty adapting to another place).
Our adoption contract specifies, among other conditions, the follow-up that is carried out, the possibility of immediately removing the animal if its living conditions are not those stipulated in the contract, and that, if it becomes impossible to keep the animal, it must be returned to our association.
In this way, we prevent “our” dog from being abandoned or handed over to third parties in the event of problems, and we guarantee its lifelong well-being.
To cover part of the animal's expenses, the adopter pays an adoption fee.
Our dogs are placed for adoption dewormed internally and externally, vaccinated with the pentavalent and rabies vaccines, identified with a microchip, tested for leishmaniasis and ehrlichiosis, and sterilized.
Our cats are placed for adoption dewormed internally and externally, vaccinated with the trivalent and leukemia vaccines, identified with a microchip, tested for feline immunodeficiency and leukemia, and sterilized.
In order to cover both the expenses of the rented rural property and the veterinary and maintenance expenses for our animals, and since we do not receive any kind of aid or subsidy and our only fixed income comes from contributions from the few members and sponsors we have, we are forced to hold solidarity sales and a large number of charity events throughout the year.
http://www.protectoravillapepa.com
Photographic sources:
http://www.eltiemblo.es/
http://www.pequepolis.com/