As most of you know, rescuing just one dog from Spain can be a costly business. The dogs must be blood tested, micro-chipped, vaccinated, housed and fed for six months in Spain before we can think about them making the journey to the UK. Many of the dogs are sick or injured and need extensive vet's treatment and medication.

To find each dog a home usually means a lot of expensive advertising, and many phone calls.

The journey is also not cheap- apart from the petrol costs, tolls, ferry or channel tunnel tickets, the dogs must be de-flead and wormed and papers provided 48 hours before they land, by a vet- this must also be paid for as well as the pet passport.

There is now a new and easy way for you to help us raise funds for European Animal Welfare - simply by shopping online.

Easyfundraising is a shopping directory that features some of your favourite online stores, including Amazon, NEXT, Debenhams, John Lewis, Toys’R’Us, HMV and over 500 others. All you have to do is use the links on the Easyfundraising site whenever you shop online and, at no extra cost to you, we'll receive a free donation of up to 15% from every purchase you make.

It’s completely free to register and use and you still shop with each retailer in exactly the same way as you normally would. Your purchases will not cost you any more, and many retailers even offer additional discounts and money saving e-Vouchers when you shop using Easyfundraising.

If you shop online anyway then please raise valuable extra funds for us by using this simple scheme. 

All you need to do is visit http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/europeananimalwelfare and when you register, select European Animal Welfare as the organisation you wish to support.