K1 Mascot & World’s Oldest Coton de Tulear Raises Almost $250,000 for SPCAs
As we celebrate raising almost $250,000 for various SPCA organizations, we want to honor a very special member of our family — our founder’s beloved Coton de Tulear, Jolie, who, at 19 years old, is believed to be the oldest living dog of her breed in the world. Jolie has been a member of the K1 Speed team since 2006, when K1 had just two locations — the original in Carlsbad and the second in Irvine.
Through every lap, every milestone, and every expansion, Jolie has been right there alongside us, representing loyalty, resilience, and heart. Her long life is a beautiful reminder of why supporting animal welfare matters and why giving back to SPCA organizations is so important to us. Backed by Jolie’s wisdom and joyful disposition, K1 Speed raised $235,236.67 throughout the 2025 calendar year.
The total donated amount of almost $250,000 was collected through silent auctions of sports memorabilia at each U.S. K1 Speed location, run in partnership with Charity Benefits Unlimited (CBU). The proceeds have been divided equally among 10 independent SPCA organizations. Learn more about how each organization helps improve animal welfare in its community by reading below.
Jolie: The Official K1 Speed Mascot
Jolie: The Official K1 Speed Mascot
SF SPCA
SF SPCA operates mobile vaccine clinics that provide no-cost preventive veterinary services in under-resourced San Francisco neighborhoods and runs community veterinary services aimed at expanding access to care for pet owners with financial and other barriers. It has an Animal Assisted Therapy volunteer program in which trained volunteers and their animals visit facilities such as hospitals and similar settings, and it also runs Shelter PALS, a legal-advocacy initiative that offers pro-bono legal assistance and policy advocacy on issues affecting animal shelters and animal welfare.
spcaLA
The spcaLA conducts cruelty investigations and provides humane education that addresses the relationship between animal cruelty and interpersonal violence, and it operates Animal Safety Net (ASN), which provides housing and care for pets of domestic violence survivors. It also offers positive-reinforcement dog training classes, including basic and advanced obedience, agility, and specialty “nose work”classes. Violence-prevention and humane-education programming are available for youth and adults.
SPCA of Texas
SPCA of Texas operates an Animal Cruelty Investigations unit that assists law enforcement and responds to reports of animal cruelty, helping large numbers of animals each year, and has historically provided equine and livestock rescue and care as part of its programs. It provides resources to help keep pets with their families, including pet-retention support and assistance programs.
Greater Charlotte SPCA
Greater Charlotte SPCA does not own or operate a shelter building; instead, all animals are housed in volunteer foster homes, and it takes in animals from local shelters and other rescue situations and places them in foster care until adoption. Using this foster system allows the organization to provide medical care and to better understand each animal’s needs and behavior before they are made available at adoption events.
SPCA Florida
SPCA Florida operates in Lakeland on a multi-building campus often self-promoted as a “Campus of Kindness” and provides affordable veterinary services, including spay/neuter, through its medical center. It runs a “Transport to Safety” program that moves animals from high-risk or overcrowded shelters to partner organizations where they are more likely to be adopted, and it also runs “Critter Camp,” a youth program where children learn about animal care, rescue, and related topics through hands-on activities with animals.
Pennsylvania SPCA
Pennsylvania SPCA (PSPCA) operates a Humane Law Enforcement unit that investigates cruelty, executes warrants, and removes animals from abusive situations. It integrates veterinary and shelter-medical care with this enforcement work by treating animals seized in cruelty cases through its in-house hospital facilities.
In practice, this means that animals rescued from cruelty investigations receive both legal protection and medical treatment under one organizational umbrella.
Richmond SPCA
Richmond SPCA has long-standing involvement in no-kill sheltering and operates programs that move healthy and treatable animals into adoption and foster care. It operates the Susan M. Markel Veterinary Hospital, which provides reduced-cost veterinary care to the public with a focus on pet guardians who cannot otherwise afford care, and it provides additional programs to help keep pets with their families, including veterinary assistance and support services.
Nevada SPCA
Nevada SPCA is a community-focused, no-kill shelter serving Southern Nevada, and it provides a Pet Pantry that offers pet food and certain supplies at no cost to qualifying families in need.
It also offers community-support programs that include free or low-cost veterinary assistance intended to help people keep their pets rather than surrender them to a shelter.
Louisiana SPCA
Louisiana SPCA focuses on community outreach and access to veterinary services, including spay/neuter, for pet owners in the New Orleans area, and it operates a Pets for Life program that brings spay/neuter, veterinary care, supplies, and information to residents in underserved neighborhoods with the goal of keeping pets with their families.
In addition, it provides housing and renters’ resources, such as information and referrals, to help people facing housing barriers keep their pets, acknowledging that landlord issues are a common reason for pet surrenders.
SPCA of Tennessee
SPCA of Tennessee specializes in a grassroots, 100% volunteer-run approach to animal rescue. Because they do not operate a physical shelter building, their focus relies on local foster families to rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home abused and abandoned animals across the state.
A long-term focus for the organization is raising funds to build a “Therapy Ranch,” which is a sanctuary designed to not only save animals from euthanasia but to pair them with people for mutual behavioral rehabilitation and emotional support.