In May 2000 Finca La Castellana started as a family building project, on a piece of land on the campo, just outside of San Miguel. Along with my family, we started taking in, rescuing and re-homing animals of all descriptions that had been abandoned, ill-treated, abused, or dumped. We soon realized that the building project had to extent to kennels, cattery, paddock, stables, and orchard, just to house all the rescued animals.  After years of red tape and paperwork, Finca la Castellana became a registered, non-profit charity in March 2009. This has made it possible to take on volunteers to help with the daily care of the animals, and most importantly, to start fund raising to help with the feeding, day to day care, veterinary needs and maintenance costs.

During this time over 3000 animals have passed through our gates, the majority being found new home. Some of these rescue animals, due to ill health, have the chance to live their lives on the finca as part of the family. The charity works closely with the local police and has an ongoing project, ‘The Green Mile’. helping release dogs from municipal killing stations around the country. Our motto being, ‘The more money we save, the more pets we can save’.