SOS Italian Setters has been created to rescue and help find wonderful homes for Italian Setters found abandoned, often literally on their last legs, forgotten in public pounds or surrendered to volunteers by hunters.


Why Italy? Why so many Setters needing a home?

With annual registrations ranging from 10,000–20,000 puppies, Italian breeders register more Setters than the rest of the world combined. Needless to say: by no means all are registered. We work closely with rescue centres and trusted volunteers in Southern Italy who often sacrifice their lives to help these dogs. We support them save Setters found on their “patch”. They need everything from medications to food: there is always a new emergency.