Love, dignity, and a new beginning
SOS Galgos is a non-profit organisation dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating and responsibly rehoming galgos, particularly those abandoned or mistreated after being used for hunting. Our Rescue and Education Centre provides a safe place for them to recover while also welcoming children and young people to learn about animal welfare, empathy and responsible pet ownership. We believe that alongside rescuing the galgos who need us today, education is key to changing their future and building a more compassionate society.
Galgos for adoption
Our Partners
A Toast to Second Chances: SOS Galgos and "El Perro Flaco"
We’re thrilled to partner with El Perro Flaco wine, a wine, a brand that shares our passion for giving these dogs a second chance at life.
With every bottle of you purchase, 1% of the proceeds go directly to us, helping fund our work to provide care, shelter, and hope for Galgos in need. By raising a glass, you’re raising support for these incredible dogs—because together, we can create a world where every Galgo knows love.
OUR RESCUED Galgos
At SOS Galgos we believe that it is time that in Spain there are legislative means to fight more effectively against cruelty to animals: there are already some cases of manifest cruelty foreseen in the penal code, but more material means are lacking and humans and greater involvement of the different administrations and institutions.
Violence against people and the saturation of the judicial and criminal system are common arguments to deny greater involvement in the fight against violence towards animals. But there are more and more studies and works that show the connection that exists between violence against animals and violence towards people.
Taking violence against animals more seriously means, therefore, a benefit in the fight against that which affects people.
Hare-coursing and the plight of the Galgo in Spain
With your help, we can give many more greyhounds a better future.
Support our work — for Galgos in need
Negligence, abandonment, irresponsible tenure, violent shows with animals or acts of manifest cruelty. Until now, acts of brutality against animals in Spain could only be punished with administrative sanctions: you could go to prison for stealing a car, but not for mistreating an animal.
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From Rescue to Recovery
LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY
We seek legislative and social change
SOS Galgos considers it essential to influence in the legislative field to be able to change laws and influence policies that allow to improve the level of protection of abandoned and mistreated animals and, especially, the situation of galgos, contributing, consequently, to change habits and cultural and social behaviors.
In this sense, we participate directly in the analysis and amendments of national and autonomic regulations related to the matter.
In collaboration with the Faculty of Law of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, we are currently working on a study aimed at defining a proposal to establish a new legal framework for the protection of galgos in Spain.
This joint action with the university will allow us to conform results based on evidence that will allow us to know elements such as: the magnitude of greyhounds that are abandoned every year -a figure that is not known with accuracy at the moment-, international regulations and their comparison with ours or other realities about animal abuse.
This project, made possible thanks to the sponsorship of the organizations SPCA International and Greyhound in Need, represents a great boost for the organization, as it will allow us to reinforce our strategy of influence in the regulatory and legislative spheres to achieve a change in the legal status of the galgo.
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