A street dog resting at sunset on a rural island road in the Philippines

Palangga Paws · Iloilo & Guimaras

When the animals thrive, we all thrive

Free rabies vaccination, spay/neuter (kapon) and mobile rescue clinic care for dogs and cats across Iloilo and Guimaras, Philippines. Funded by many hands, not one.

Report an animal in need Fund or partner Vet clinics: join

For funders and partners

Fund the Palangga Paws Mobile Clinic

"Palangga" means "beloved" in Hiligaynon.

Palangga Paws plans to bring sterilisation, rabies vaccination and rescue care to barangays across Iloilo and Guimaras. Our approach connects an owned mobile clinic with local vets and shelters, supporting both prevention and safe recovery close to the communities that need them.

A picture of the plan, not a van we own yet. The QR code printed on the side opens the form for reporting an animal that needs help.

Partner or fund a clinic day Lessons from Soi Dog’s success

Palangga Paws will buy and own its clinic van. See the van plan

Get involved

Join the clinic or support it

Vet clinics & rescuers

Sign up as a partner

Vets, clinics, rescuers, feeders and barangays: send a short application — no account needed. Once approved, you get a sign-in to log clinic days. Verified work counts toward the public totals.

Apply to join

Businesses & sponsors

Sponsor a clinic day

Eateries, resorts, JCI and companies can sponsor a clinic day, a recovery kennel or care days at a partner clinic, and earn the Animal-Friendly seal.

Donate

Giving opens after registration

Donations open here as soon as our SEC registration, official organisation bank account and DSWD permit are in place, so every peso is legal and traceable. Anyone asking you for money for us today is not us.

Want to give when it opens? Write to the founders and we'll tell you first.

For eateries, resorts and barangays

The Animal-Friendly seal: good for animals, good for business

Iloilo dining & markets

Clean, cared-for streets that suit a UNESCO City of Gastronomy.

Resorts & homestays

Visitors notice healthy, vaccinated animals — and come back.

Families & barangays

Fewer bites means fewer costly rabies shots for households.

How to earn the seal

The mission

Assess honestly. Elevate whoever is helping. Replace what is failing.

On Guimaras and Iloilo, care for animals runs on private kindness. A handful of rescuers, feeders and sympathetic vets absorb costs no one reimburses, while breeding, rabies fear, poisoning and culling keep adding to the load.

The work here is not to duplicate what those people already do. It is to see the whole system clearly — every actor, every incentive, every gap — then direct attention, partnership and money to the interventions that measurably change it.

And to end the dependence on a single funder. Accountability and shared ownership are the difference between a kind gesture and a lasting institution.

Most urgent

Uncontrolled breeding of community dogs and cats
Without accessible, low-cost sterilisation, one unsterilised female and her offspring can produce hundreds of animals in a few years. Litters are born onto roads, in markets and behind resorts.
Rabies risk and the culling response
Fear of rabies drives culling and poisoning. Culling is both inhumane and ineffective: surviving animals breed back within a season, and vaccination coverage never reaches the threshold that protects people.
Dependence on one or two private funders
Nearly all of the effort in the area rests on a small number of individuals paying for it personally. That is generous, and it is also the biggest structural risk to every animal being helped.

Full assessment of problems and actors

Gabby, a black-and-white tuxedo kitten, looking at the camera

Why this began · Pet food safety

Gabby, the kitten who started it

Her owner reports she fell seriously ill after a store-bought pet milk. Her lesson guides everything here: notice early, act fast, share what was learned.

Read Gabby's story →

Why we do this

Kindness, the way it shows up here

A dog and a cat, side by side on the same step, asking nothing of each other. Every animal on these islands deserves that kind of peace — and someone to notice when it is missing.