We had a fantastic day at the plant sale on Saturday 15th June when a magnificent £643.90 was raised!
Thank you to everyone who came along to buy, we hope you will enjoy your new plants. We would also like to thank those of you who came along simply to give a donation too.
A special and very big thank you goes to Debs, Dec and Abi for all their hard work over many months. They have been sowing, planting, re-potting and bringing on all of the plants. Debs you have a magic touch with your flower arranging within each basket and container!
We have a small number of beautiful plants left over, not many though, so if you want to take a look and buy something come along to the kennels between 11am and 1pm from Monday.
Updates:
The Great Global Greyhound Walk:
On Sunday the 9th June Greyhound Lifeline led their own Great Global Greyhound Walk. The weather held for the occasion with some nice warm spells and we saw lots of familiar faces as well as some new ones too to welcome to the event.
We had 50 sighthounds in attendance and we raised £185.33 for the greyhounds in our care.
Greyhound Lifeline would like to say a big thank you to Diane, Kathryn and Caroline for organising, route planning and providing the refreshments after the event.
Training:
The team have been busy through May with fundraising events, the greyhounds have also been working hard with their training around unfamiliar breeds of dog.
For some of our greyhounds this is easy and they just want to have fun and play!
For others this can take weeks or months of retraining, patience and reassurance from their handler. We are really pleased with all the dogs and the progress they have made, however small it is to us, it is a huge step for them. Lots of praise and reward is given to all the greyhounds for all their successes.
Marshall excelled himself through May. He has come along way and is now starting to accept small dogs as friends providing he has a handler who he can trust and look to for reassurance.
Well done Marshall!
Kennel Opening Hours:
Please note all volunteers (kennel hands included), visitors and customers must pre-book visits to our site which will involve bringing a non-resident dog on site.
We are asking for at least 24 hours’ notice of your dog’s arrival, details of the day/time you wish to bring your dog(s) and how many dogs you propose to bring. We will endeavour to give you a suitable appointment time, but please appreciate that we can only be as flexible as our lease permits and you may be offered an alternative time/day instead.
You can pre-book your dog’s visit by:
Email to [email protected], by text or phone to 07828 138378 (Marie) or 07769 348310 (Lucy).
The above pre-booking applies to visiting dogs only.
Volunteers and customers without dogs joining them are welcome during opening hours as per normal. Viewings remain by appointment only as previously.
Events:
Afternoon Tea – Saturday 6th July – Save the Date! – See attached link
Morrisons, Fleet Collection – Saturday 31st August
Blue Cross Fun Day & Dog Event, Southampton – Saturday 7th September
Fleet Street Collection – Saturday 14th September
Redfields Garden Centre Collection – Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th October
Guildford Street Collection – Saturday 16th November
The Meadows, Camberley – Sunday 1st December
Farnborough Street Collection – Saturday 7th December
Homed Dogs:
Caos and Annie.
Dogs in Foster Care:
Cinders and Kara.
Reserved Dogs:
Ranger and Spritzer.
Cat Trainable Greyhounds:
Ranger and Jordy.
New Arrivals:
Chip, Ranger, Ricardo, Jordy and Spritzer.
If you would like to meet this greyhound or any of our resident greyhounds please call or email Greyhound Lifeline’s Adoption team to arrange a viewing.
All our home seeking greyhounds have updated their personal pages, please check them out and find the greyhound waiting for you!
Fundraising:
Our stocks are now low, if you can help by donating any unwanted gifts – un-opened smellies, perfume, childrens’ toys, games (board and electronic), DVD`s, jewellery and small electrical items including power tools, radios, computer accessories and watches are most wanted, we would be very grateful.