Kennel News - 11.06.12

We have welcomed several new arrivals recently; Jet, Molly and Omaha are the most recent. All new arrivals now have photographs to go alongside their descriptions. Several greyhounds have updated descriptions and coming soon will be a summary of the dogs’ reactions to toys. Some love toys, some would rather sleep. Please keep checking our  Greyhounds Needing Homes Gallery for updates as the descriptions are updated fairly frequently.

Great British Greyhound Walk

This year’s Great British Greyhound Walk is taking place on Sunday June 24. There are many walks going on throughout the UK and more information about individual events and start times can be found on the GBGW web site. It’s a great way to raise awareness of greyhounds and to get greyhound owners together too for a social. Some of the walks are also raising funds for various rescues.

Sunday Kennel Dog walkers:

Dog walkers, please be aware that on Sunday 24th June some of our kennel residents will be out with staff attending the GBGW events (see above). We won’t therefore have the usual full kennel of greyhounds for you to walk on that day.

Open Day Photographs

Photographs from the recent kennel Open Day are on site for you to view.

New Arrivals:

Jet, Molly and Omaha are our most recent arrivals.

Homed greyhounds (updated 11.06.12):

Cody, Abbie, Lulu, Zulu and Jake have been homed.

Abbie’s new “mum” wrote: “We are finding her teeth rattle adorably and know when she’s doing it, she truly is content.”

Zulu’s new “dad” wrote and please remember that like Abbie, Zulu is a “timmid tigger” when faced with strangers, but he’s learning fast “We hadn’t considered that Zulu would be a star attraction…..from the moment we arrived boys and girls asked if they could pat him. He was brilliant!”

We’ve had photographs and contact from both Lulu’s (now Jude) and Jake’s (now Ricky) families too. It seems everyone adores their new family members.

Reserved Greyhounds:

Courtney and Lucy are reserved.

North Camp Summer Fayre:

Our mobile tombola stall, complete with a selection of home made goodies and all sorts of other interesting things to buy will be at the North Camp Summer Fayre on Saturday 16th June between 12 noon and 4pm. Please come along and see us there.

Some Interesting Figures (updated 11.06.12):

To date this year 34 of our lucky greyhounds have found their homes. Out of those 34, 19 were males and 15 were females. Very interestingly 24 of the 34 were black (or mainly black) and just 10 were non-black greyhounds. It’s true that black dogs and male dogs can both prove harder to home, but it’s a testament to both our dedicated team of staff and to our wonderful, realistic adopters that choosing a greyhound isn’t ruled simply by colour or sex. It’s looked at as the whole package.

Picture of greyhound Champ

Champ (above) is one of the lucky black boys to have been adopted this year.

Emily, one of our volunteer staff summed it all up beautifully with these words. “It just shows that it doesn’t matter what colour or sex the dogs are, its their amazing personalities which have captured so many people’s hearts! Including mine, they’re deserving hounds!”

More good news is that homing figures so far this year are nearly a third up on last year. A very pleasing result considering the current economic climate. Part of this improvement is no doubt due to Kev of Multilayer Design to gave our web site a much needed overhaul and has in doing so, hugely increased to number of people we can reach.

However interesting the statistics are, homing greyhounds in not a numbers game. It’s about finding the right homes for individual dogs. Some greyhounds come in and barely settle down before being snapped up and adopted. Others have a much longer wait, but we never give up and all of us firmly believe that somewhere out there every one of our dogs has a home waiting for them. We just have to find it for them.

Dan, pictured above is one of our hounds whose family haven’t found him yet. He’s still waiting, but in the mean time he’s having a lovely life with Lucy, his foster carer.

Jam Jar Appeal:

We need more empty jam jars with lids please. Anyone that comes to the kennels occasionally, please ask your friends and neighbours to collect them too. We are very low on 1lb jars especially. This means that Penny and Adrian won’t be able to make much more home made jams or pickles for us to sell until we get more jars for them to use.

We are also in desperate need of small items suitable as tombola prizes. Unwanted stationery, smellies, small toys etc all make good tombola prizes. No food products please.

Please also keep up the donations of all sorts of good quality, unwanted items. We can use all sorts of things in one way or another, big or small. Items may be used as raffle prizes, tombola prizes, get sold on bric a brac stalls or even get put on ebay to raise funds.

Looking to adopt a greyhound?

Please visit our Greyhounds Needing Homes Gallery to see details of all our available greyhounds.

We Still Need Foster Homes – Can you help?

If you think you might be able to foster a greyhound then please read our Greyhound Fostering Information page.

Cat Test Passes:

Cloud, Bizzle and Tilly have passed cat tests and with caution in the early days we feel they would be able to learn to live safely with cats.

Foster Dog Updates:

Phoebe is doing well in her foster home. She is beginning to learn not to fret if she’s left alone. There’s a way to go yet, but it’s positive news.

Dan is also doing very well, he can be left for reasonable periods, he’s clean in the house, very sociable with his foster brother and sister greyhounds and an all round lovely boy who is long overdue a home of his own.

Sponsored Slim:

Fiona Selby is aiming to lose 2 stone in weight and has offered to raise sponsorship for Greyhound Lifeline through her efforts. Her local Weigh Watchers group in Northamptonshire will verify whether or not she succeeds and/or how much she manages to lose.

If you’d like to offer Fiona some incentive to succeed and help raise funds for us at the same time then please email us at [email protected] giving your name and address (including postcode) and details of how much you wish to sponsor either in total and we’ll fill in the form for you.

Those of you who pay UK tax please let us know whether you agree or not to us claiming Gift Aid on on your sponsorship to increase the amount we receive at no additional cost to you.

Fundraise for us using eBay

You can now sell items on ebay and choose to donate between 10% and 100% of your sale price to Greyhound Lifeline. If you are an ebay member you could also simply donate by using your Paypal account. For ebay members only please visit their Sell for Charity page and enter “Greyhound Lifeline” in the Charity name area.

If you are a UK tax payer please also tick the Gift Aid box. Please read ebay’s terms and conditions carefully as we cannot be held responsible for any problems you may encounter. Could you sell your unwanted items and help us to buy food, provide veterinary care and generally look after the greyhounds in our care at the same time?

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