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Our organization has been dedicated to helping animals in need on the Canary Island of Tenerife since its founding in 1992. To provide targeted support, Ute and Elmar Lobüscher established the association in 1992 and began constructing the animal shelter—a safe haven for the many animals in distress, a true “Noah’s Ark.” Many dogs and cats find refuge and a home here.
The association is dedicated exclusively to charitable purposes. The primary goals of the association are:
Advocating for and promoting animal welfare on Tenerife, particularly improving the living conditions of animals.
Maintaining and preserving our animal shelter and sanctuary.
Preventing animal cruelty, abuse, and mistreatment.
Raising awareness about animal welfare issues on Tenerife.
Providing the best possible care and attention to the animals in our custody (stray and rescued animals) and placing them in loving, species-appropriate homes.
Performing spaying and neutering procedures to control overpopulation.
Rescuing abandoned animals.
Educating locals and tourists about the prevailing issues in the region.
We have rescued thousands of animals over the past 31 years!
We cared for, nurtured, and rehabilitated them until we could give them a chance at a better future and a happier life. Over time, we have also grown into a sanctuary and now host many permanent residents. These animals, due to their age, illness, or shyness, cannot be flown to Germany for adoption. Instead, they find a forever home at our shelter, where they are cared for until the end of their natural lives.
Our organization is recognized as particularly worthy of support and is a proud member of the Deutscher Tierschutzbund (German Animal Welfare Federation).
Our center is around 12.000 qm and we have different houses for cats and dogs.
We have always around the 60 dogs and 70 cats and all the animals are need a lot of love.
We are always between 4-12 people living in the rescue center.
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Jardinería
Construcción y bricolaje
Cuidado de animales
Intereses
Montaña
Playa
Senderismo
Vida en autocaravana
LGBT+
Vegetariano o vegano
Mascotas
Trabajo de caridad
Animales
Naturaleza
Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
You can learn a lot about cats and dogs and spend time with them. We are also happy to give our knowloedge to everyone who is interested in veterinary medicine.
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We search for Workaways/Volunteers 25 years or older (to stay 8 weeks or more) loving cats and dogs and want to give a lot of love to them.
You should be experienced in walking and training dogs (in the positive way) or you should be crazy cat person who wants to spend some time of your day with cuddling and playing with cats.
The Workaways/Volunteers help cleaning and feeding every morning. Cleaning is one big part of the tasks.
It happens from time to time that Workaways/Volunteers are thinking that they cuddle cats and walk dogs all day and working at the shelter is a relaxed vacation activity, but thats not the truth ;)
There is a lot of stuff to do in a rescue center to keep it running and ensure that all the cats and dogs are healthy and happy.
The nights in our center can be noisy because of our cats and dogs and they are everywhere ;)
We therefore ask you to consider carefully whether the daily work in the shelter and also the nights with our four or three-legged friends are really something suitable for you.
Also besides the normal working hours our dogs and cats are waiting and looking forward to visits in their rooms/boxes. Especially the shy cats and dogs need a lot of love and attention, for which there is hardly any time during normal working hours.
Maybe it still sounds like a real easy and relaxing task, but cleaning, feeding, walking with dogs, playing with cats its not always relaxing and sometimes the Tenerife sun it´s really hot ;)
For us it´s important that you speak English or German.
Idiomas hablados
Alemán: Fluido
Inglés: Fluido
Alojamiento
In the Finca (Main House) living around 30 cats and 6 dogs and normally you share your sleepingroom with some of them.
Also you share the kitchen with the cats and dogs ;) and the bathroom with other Workaways/Volunteers.
The rooms have a single or double bed, closets and some of them a TV.
The kitchen is fully equipped and we have sheets, blankets, towels and washing machine and dryer.
You are responsible to keep your own room clean and tidy and you have to take care of the animals living with you inside. For sure in your free time one of our staff will feed them and giving medicine if needed.
With all the animals we are really busy all day so we don’t have the possibility to cook.
Every Workaway/Volunteer gets 30 € / week for food and you can use our car two days a week to go to the supermarket in the next town.
Some evenings we spend all together having dinner, playing games or chatting.
We have an internet connection and wifi but it´s not always working and it doesn´t work in all rooms or areas.
To get to the public transport you have to walk around 35-45 minutes. But we have also some bycicles you can rent.
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There are a lot of tourist attractions in Tenerife, you can go clubbing, surfing or visit the highest mountain in Spain. We also do sometimes trips with the car around the island with our volunteers. At the moment with Covid everything is a bit difficult.
Please note that our rescue center is in the middle of nowhere and we have no direct bus connection.
The next bus station is Tenerife Airport South or San Isidro or Casablanca and you can travel by bus around the whole island. Depends on the time we can bring you there and pick you up again but for sure not every day and only if its working with our daily routine. For walking it’s around 35-45 minutes. Depends on how fast you are ;-)
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Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
Puede acoger a nómadas digitales
We have a wifi connection but not every where in our shelter. It´s not always working very well.
Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas
We have a free space behind our rescue center, where also our Volunteer Caravan is parking. We can provide you electricity and of cause you can use all facilities like kitchen and bathroom in our Finca.
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The first week it was a lot to learn and remember and the work was very physical. After that you get used to it and get a lot of reward from the dog. All the people working there are very passionate and kind and work very hard to give the best to the animals.
its important to realize that the place is in the… read more
We hope that she will come back one day and wish her all the best.
Anna and Marlen do an important and amazing job!
And it was a pleasure to support them for a while.
And most of all, I loved working with the dogs.. and I am already missing them to hard.. the cats as well by the way :D
Maybe we'll… read more
All we have to say is that we are so so happy that Franziska will come to us back this year :-)
She did such a great job and we can´t wait to have her back in our team soon.
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The first week it was a lot to learn and remember and the work was very physical. After that you get used to it and get a lot of reward from the dog. All the people working there are very passionate and kind and work very hard to give the best to the animals.
its important to realize that the place is in the… read more
We hope that she will come back one day and wish her all the best.
Anna and Marlen do an important and amazing job!
And it was a pleasure to support them for a while.
And most of all, I loved working with the dogs.. and I am already missing them to hard.. the cats as well by the way :D
Maybe we'll… read more
All we have to say is that we are so so happy that Franziska will come to us back this year :-)
She did such a great job and we can´t wait to have her back in our team soon.
I shared my room with some cats, which was quite funny.
I worked 25 hours per week and had 2 days off after.
My work was mainly feeding the cats, cleaning the cats area and cuddeling of course!
Even with so many animals, I felt like the whole shelter was more clean than some restaurants.… read more
The did such a great job and were spending so much time with our animals in there free time. They are so passionate about animals and also really lovely people. We hope they will come back one day.
There's a lot of positive things that we could say about this shelter (as already written in all the other reviews 😅). Everything… read more
Everything is very well organized and everyone is very experienced working with the animals.
They really have heart for the animals and it shows in every way possible.
I've worked here with both cats and dogs and can't choose which i like to do more!
It's also a great place to… read more
I planned to stay one mounth (October 2021) but i stayed one more week longer and if i could would like to stay longer hh. I was sharing… read more
She did a great job with the dogs and knows a lot about training them.
All the volunteers where a really great team together and they had so much fun :)
I stayed for two months and had the most amazing time.
Where do I start?
The work was amazing and really satisfying for an animal lover, your role at work was always clear, all the animals were amazing (and I really miss them!) and especially all the people there were… read more
We loved to have you here in our team.
We had so much fun and you and your work was really great.
The people you live & work with are incredible, the animals you look after become your 'fur babies', how organised everything is, the clear communication and understanding of your role, the generosity & kindness from everyone each day, the support… read more
How she traines the dogs was really great and also the crazy ones got calm with her on their side.
Thanks for being with us.
The finca Is a beautiful healing place for cats and dogs. They have a lot of space and they are treated with love and care.
Anna , the boss, is. Really a good boss! Clear with communication and information since the beginning . She will do… read more
