In Soajo, three further shelters will be replaced next to the São Bento health centre, using the wood to build more resistant, cleaner facilities while expanding support for monitored feline colonies.
This initiative is part of a broader animal welfare strategy, including a capture, sterilisation, and return programme that, last year, enabled 280 feline sterilisations and, over five years, resulted in 1,596 adoptions of microchipped, sterilised dogs and cats.














I live 1.15 hr outside Lisbon by train and I think what they are doing is wonderful. The countryside has a completely different mentality and there needs to better education on the treatment of animals. When your local junta doesn’t want to help with the cat colonies and will not admit to allocated funds for sterilization, it’s like pissing in the wind. They still believe in dogs on chains and cats being poisoned as a way to handle stray animals. I applaud how Lisbon is recycling and caring for throwaway animals bravo to the Lisbon municipality
By AMGordon from Other on 10 Jan 2026, 14:56
I think you need to educate people about the importance of having their cats sterilised so we wouldn't have all these stray cats running around.
By Anna V. Alcott from Algarve on 11 Jan 2026, 11:15