A VERY BUSY MONTH
Well all I can say is, things are still mental….
With having no one on the yard and only three part time members of staff in the kennels, the main of the work again falls to me and Bob. We are doing seven days a week, on average 160 hours a week between us. We never have a day off but Kenzie, who used to work for us in Doncaster, is joining us soon, she will be living in…..so fingers crossed.
And whilst the day to day stuff is being done…so did all this.
Mia & Gracie, the lovely greyhound sisters were rehomed, by previous Tia adopters in Todmorden, direct from the trainer in Nottingham.
Harris, the gorgeous whippet bedlington decided he didn’t want to live in his current home, caused havoc and was driven up all the way from Edinburgh, at speed…a few days later, a haircut and he bagged himself a lovely home locally.
Ruby, a lovely greyhound girl was rehomed direct from the trainer in Manchester to a long term supporter/adopter in Dewsbury.
Our Jess saw a greyhound girl on Facebook who needed to be out of her home in Doncaster asap. Within a few hours Lottie was in a foster home with previous Tia adopters, wondering what was going on now….she’d been racing a few months ago and this is all very confusing.
Ellie one of our greyhound girls, who had been adopted back in 2020, found herself in need of another home as her mom had become ill. Long term supporters and friends, Nigel & Steph stepped in to foster her…..of course they failed, almost immediately….
Sylvester was rehomed to long term supporters and friends Peter and Alison who have relocated to Dunoon. They made the 8 hour round trip to come and get him as he had been here in kennels for a whole year.
We sadly lost Harper to bone cancer. The kennels are a lot quieter without him. Sleep tight big fella.
Next Chic, who had been waiting in her trainers kennels in Derbyshire, has gone into a foster home with long term supporters and friends in Nottingham.
Minnie the cob that came back from her previous adopters, a riding school in Winterton in a disgraceful condition, has gone to her new forever home where she is a spoilt princess.
Turbo & Rascal made the journey up from Sheffield with Andy from Leeds. These two 10 year old brothers have lived all their lives at Askern greyhound track and the last few years on an allotment in Sheffield. They are looking forward to beach walks and hopefully a new home. They arrived with a huge amount of dog beds from Huddersfield, for the Nairn shop and a cool box full of pork pies. Some of the pies later that day headed off to Tongue with their own private chauffer. Pork pies were consumed later that day by five very grateful Yorkshire folk. A week later the rest of the Turner family landed from Leeds, with another cool box this time full of delicious curries. Later that evening I was a very happy little piglet as was Hazel ( Nairn shop manager ) and her other half who now have a taste for a proper curry.
So please, when you ring up and say you know how busy we are, excuse me if I sigh…
Deb
