22/11/2024
Hiya 👋....... and welcome if you are new around here... hold on tight as following my page is one hell of a ride!
I'm Louise 🙂 I'm the reason PPGC exists, I am the founder, president, and crazy boss lady of Pet Pals GC. Love me or hate me, I have changed the lives of thousands of animals and people.
It is hard to explain how I got into the rescue world, but I have now given up my life, my sanity and my bank balance to do what I do!
In 2006 I moved with my family to Gran Canaria, to begin a new chapter of my life, little did I know that this move would change my life forever. Not only has my life changed, but the lives of thousands of animals, desperately in need of help. The cruelty on the island made me realize I had to do something to help. I decided to devote my life to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome the dogs that had been mistreated, and discarded.
In 2012 with no prior experience of running a non profit in Spain, I moved my family to a plot of land up a mountain, to live in a goat shed, and founded Pet Pals GC. I was soon recognized as a charity, and people begun to follow and support what I did. Gran Canaria is a beautiful island, with a huge animal abandonment problem, and there are many days when I feel I am attempting to empty the ocean with a teaspoon.
However, with my unique style of rescue, my out spoken ways, and my show it all approach, my followers grew. Rescue is not pretty, it is emotional, and heart-breaking, dirty and stressful, and I show it all I wanted to prove that the broken, old, deaf, blind dogs are just as appealing, and you can guarantee if a dog is found that needs surgery, or that simply no other rescue will touch, it is the one that I want.
Over the years I have built a fantastic UK team, where the dogs go to foster and find amazing homes, without their support and devotion I could not do what I do. With these incredible woman we are making a difference to so many lives. Non profit charities like mine rely entirely on donations, I have no government support or funding. I rely on the income from our charity shop here on the island, and the supporters who donate regularly.
Not forgetting the other resident rescue animals that live here, I have cats, horses, donkey's, goats, pigs, guinea pigs, rabbits, chickens, ducks, turtles, ferrets, sheep, ponies, oh and peacocks.... The rescue takes on average 15,000 € a month to run and survive.... Both my husband and I work, to help with these costs... So yes I have a job, as well as running the rescue
Although the day to day running of Pet Pals GC, is on my shoulders, and I do everything myself, my charity as a whole could not function without everyone that is involved. It would be nothing without all of the support! I cannot thank my followers enough for their financial help, and their support through the good times and bad. You have been with me through the tears, floods, fires, operations, and happy tails. All of you make a huge difference to the dogs here on GC.
Check out www.petpalsgc.org