About AAGC

AAGC is a new organization trying to improve the lot of abandoned animals in Gran Canaria. Our main aim is to promote the adoption of abandoned animals locally. Our name, Adopta un amigo en Gran Canaria, literally means Adopt a friend in Gran Canaria and aims to reflect a more caring attitude towards animals.

We're a locally registered organization, with registry number: G1/S1/14872-08/GC

Our activities include:

• Rescuing animals from the streets, or from the shelter if they need special attention, to place in foster homes and seek good forever homes for them.
• Cooperating with the local shelters. Our volunteers help clean the cages, assess potential adopters and try to give the animals some of the attention and love they need
• Trying to build a stronger, larger community locally that cares about animal welfare issues, particularly the abandonment and mistreatment of pets. We do this mainly through our Spanish-language forum, that helps volunteers, adopters and other interested parties keep in touch, ask for help, etc.

Join us!

You're very welcome to become a member of AAGC. If you live in Gran Canaria maybe you can join us as a volunteeer, or foster home, or adopt through us. If you live elsewhere, maybe you can consider sponsoring an animal under our care. We'll have more information available on these options soon. In the meantime, please write to us.

AAGC outside Gran Canaria

For the time being there is little we can do beyond the island, as we lack the contacts to seek adopters or check for good homes elsewhere. We do send some animals to Madrid, where we have some volunteers we can trust in dealing with adopters and in taking care of the animals on reception. So, if you're flying from Gran Canaria to Madrid, you may be able to help by taking a pet to its new home.

Of course we're open to new contacts elsewhere, and to cooperate with other groups with similar aims. Please get in touch if you have any ideas for collaboration.

We also welcome donations, both of material (food, medicines, beds, collars, toys,...) if they can be brought to Gran Canaria, or money donations, as we have many expenses.