….waiting for a new home: they deserve much more than this….

The shelter is located in SESIMBRA – a coastal city 30 km south of LISBON. You can find much more on ‘BIANCA ‘s webpage. read their blog, or see the animals on a photo-blog, and youtube movies.

Pablo Neruda

If you cannot adopt, you can also help increase their life quality in the shelter: You can foster a dog on distance – choose your dog, choose a monthly amount you want to donate and help like this. You can buy ‘BIANCA’ “gadgets”, like a 2011 calendar from the online shop run by volunteers

Aphrodite

‘BIANCA’‘s mission is to save abandoned animals and animals in risk situations. The shelter is located in Sesimbra – a coastal city 30 km south of Lisbon. ‘BIANCA’ save them, give them a temporary shelter, treat the sick ones, vaccinate them and finally find new, responsible owners.

The shelter YouTube movie

Association ’BIANCA’ is a private Portuguese association, a registered charity with a public utility status, whose objective is to rescue dogs and cats and to rehome them to good homes. ‘BIANCA’ runs a shelter for around 250 dogs and has 50 cats in “temporary families”.

Feta (reserved)

‘BIANCA’ was officially created on 17th July 2002. First, it had neither kennel nor any other physical structure. Its work was based on private houses and hotels for animals. In 2006 the kennel was opened – with a capacity for 50 animals. Today more than 250! ‘BIANCA’ does not want to be a deposit place for animals. They deserve much more than that!

 Cats Jeremias, Linda and Nino (friends)

‘BIANCA’ receives around 30 new animals every month. It is always a struggle to keep a reasonable number of them in the shelter and to be able to rehome as many as possible every month. Many animals that  ‘BIANCA’ receive are in a very bad state: after an accident, with broken bones and wounds, puppies and kittens found dehydrated in garbage bins, animals physically abused.

Connie ‘t Hart (Dutch origin, associated with ‘BIANCA’) and Wolfie

Connie: “I brought this dog to ‘BIANCA‘. He wandered around near Cabo Espichel (15 km from Sesimbra), he was very skinny and scared. A friend of mine offered him a chicken leg…and now we are good friends! Wolfie has lived here for one year now,  and I really hope to find a new owner for this very nice dog!” Youtube video

Veterinary bills

”BIANCA’ has always many female and male dogs to sterilise. Females are always urgent.

The volunteers of ‘BIANCA’ count with the help of the vets who give them discounted prices but nevertheless the  monthly veterinary bills are significant. Every animal that is given for adoption from the kennel is vaccinated, dewormed and has a chip. All adult female dogs and cats are sterilised and many male dogs and cats castrated.

Help the animals  to increase their life quality

Adoption

Female puppies and kittens are given for adoption on the basis of an adoption contract in which the new owner obliges himself to have them sterilised when they reach the right age.

A lot of volunteers do a great job, there’s always work to do!

Flight assistant

If you fly – on vacation or for work - from Lisbon to Belgium, Holland, Germany or Denmark, you can help the pets. You can take an animal with you to its new home.

You don’t need to do (or pay) anything except transporting the animal. This is your way to help a dog or a cat that needs a home. MORE..

Principe and Jeremias

You can find much more on BIANCA ‘s webpage ,  read their blog, or see the animals on a photo-blog. and you tube movies.

‘BIANCA’ Association for the protection of homeless animals

Address: Apartado 55 2971-909 Sesimbra Portugal. Phone numbers (English spoken), e-mail address for more information, how to donate and how to adopt or foster see website

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It is possible taxidrivers will try and charge more for the ride than the normal prize. Make sure they switch on the meter. It is illegal for taxidrivers to charge more then the official rates in Portugal and there are penalties. So if you encounter a problem, make sure that you let them know that you might contact the police.

Hint about taking a taxi at the airport: if the queue is too long at the arrivals you just have to go upstairs to the departures area and take a taxi there.

Airport Portela Lisbon, Tourism information center - Arrival Hall. Here you can buy a voucher for pre-paid taxi transfers to the city center with fixed prices. Each taxi carries up to 4 people, including all the luggage that can fit in the trunk.

If you travel by car: Long term parking information

A taxi to the center shouldn’t cost more then 10 euros, luggage included (2008). The taxidriver will charge you with 1,80 for the luggage (if you have luggage that needs to be placed in the trunk of the car). The starting fare of the taxi should be 2,35 euro during daytime and 2,50 during nighttime. The rates are 20% higher during nighttime, in the weekend and during holidays.

Buses

There’s a special bus (Carris Aerobus 91) that brings you to the city for 3,50 euro in about 20 minutes. You can buy the ticket inside the bus, free use of the metro’s and other buses in the city during the same day is included. You can also take normal buslines, which are a bit cheaper. The buses 5, 22, 44, 45 and 83 will take you to areas in or around central Lisbon.

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