Goodbye Beautiful Sky

It is with great sadness that we saw our beautiful Sky pass on to Rainbow Bridge yesterday. Sky was not lucky enough to have been adopted, but she did spend her last few days in comfort of a loving home. Sky was recently diagnosed with an in-operable and aggressive abdominal cancer and to prevent further suffering we made the decision to let her go. She passed peacefully into an everlasting sleep in the company of those she knew. 

Picture of Sky

Sky (February 2006 - 23 February 2012)

Run free at Rainbow Bridge Sky, you are very much in good company and you shall not be forgotten by anyone at Greyhound Lifeline.

Homed Greyhounds:

Elsie, Bianca (now Ruby), Parker, Radnor, Rocket (now Bryn), Holly, Pippa and Jeeves (now Badger) have so far gone home in February.

Picture of Radnor and King greyhounds
Radnor and King supporting “Neighbourhood Watch”.

Reserved Greyhounds:

Rose and Ivy are reserved.

Updated Greyhound Descriptions:

Bizzle, Champ and Star have updated descriptions. You can find out more about them or indeed any of our other greyhounds by visiting our Greyhounds Needing Homes Gallery.

New Greyhound Arrivals:

Turbo was an unexpected arrival  who joined us today at very short notice. He’s a gentle and small lad who we will learn more about over the coming days.

Henry arrived with us on Wednesday, but he has not appeared on site for homing yet since he needs some veterinary attention before he’ll be deemed fit enough. Henry is almost 9 years old and has come from a home environment. He’s now in foster care with Paula and Nick who have already started the veterinary treatment that he was overdue.

Two new boys are expected in on Wednesday 29th February.

Details of all our  available greyhounds can be found in our Greyhound Adoption Gallery.

Greyhound Foster Dog Updates:

Ernest (known as Ollie to his foster carer) is settling in to home life steadily. He is no longer a lad suffering from kennel stress at least and he’s rapidly discovering the pleasure of life outside of kennels. A very social boy, he’s proving a lovely lad to take out on a walk. He’s also passed our cat test!

Abbie continues to thrive in her foster home. She has proved herself to be a very affectionate girl with those she knows. A real lady of a greyhound with no vices, who is very ready for an adoptive home of her own. Another cat test pass greyhound.

Picture of Abbie greyhound
Abbie in her foster home

Phoebe has settled well into her foster home. She is progressing nicely in all respects including recall with the help our behaviourists who live nearby.

Jack has moved on and into a multi dog household (also under the supervision of our behaviourists) where he is learning better all breed social skills. More updates on Jack’s progress in due course.

New On Site

Jo and Fiona have new Greyhound Blog entries.

Brief details about Turbo have been added.

More poems written by Tracy Errington will appear soon.

Could You be a Greyhound Blog Author?

New site content is needed in the form of our Greyhound Blogs.

Our archive greyhound blogs are still able to be seen, but some new content from existing authors or some new authors altogether would be very welcome.

Annual Kennel Open Day

We have set the date for our 2012 Kennel Open Day. It’s going to be on Sunday May 20th from 11am through to 2pm. We’ll have lots of stalls and fun events, plus a parade of our “stars of the show”, those greyhounds still waiting for adoption.

Entry and parking will be free, although a donation of canned dog food or fish (tuna, sardines, pilchards etc) in oil, spring water or tomato sauce would be most welcome. Absolutely no fish in brine though please as salt is poisonous to dogs!

More information about events and stalls will be published nearer the day.

Sponsored Event

Marie’s son Ed is running in the Fleet half Marathon on Sunday 25th March 2012 to raise funds for Greyhound Lifeline. A sponsor form will be available at the kennels from Tuesday 28th January. If you would sponsor Ed’s effort we would be most grateful. Don’t forget if you are a UK Tax payer to tick the Gift Aid box. It’s mean extra money for the Charity at no extra cost to you.

Pet Blood Bank

Our next session for blood donation has been scheduled for Sunday March 4th. Please register your dog with Pet Blood Bank for this session by contacting them on 01509 232222. Criteria for donation along with a full explanation about what to expect can be found on our Pet Blood Bank Information page.

Greyhound Dan photo

Dan soaks up some February sun in the kennel yard 23/02/2012

Greyhound Lifeline Newsletter:

Our newsletter is finally being drafted, it won’t be too long now before we can issue it to those of you on our mailing list. If  If you’d like to receive our newsletter then please join the Greyhound Lifeline Newsletter. Please be assured that your email address will not be passed to any third parties and you can of course opt to un-subscribe at any time.

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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