3 years ago and the Charity was changed forever.. Thanks Covid for ruining everything…

Well here we go again, all our shops and 60% of our income has gone again overnight. Thanks to all our shop staff who had sales and tried to get as much money in as possible over the past few days.
We have had 100 bales of haylage delivered for the horses today and we have 4 pallets of dog food on it’s way. We already have lots and lots of food for the dogs, the only thing we are short of is sardines.
We are sitting tight and just hoping for the best. The calendars are for sale on ebay as is our other stock stuff, Xmas cards, aprons, tea-towels, poo bags, pin badges, hessian bags and rubber leads, so you can always do a bit of online shopping for us.
So it’s the same as always here, the animals still need looking after and that is what we are good at. We have some great staff here at the farm…We currently have 40 horses and 60 dogs to look after and looked after they will be.
We will start rehoming again next weekend, under very strict Covid rules….
Stay safe everyone and look after yourselves and your animals…
Deb
Billy

Billy

 

       

I am going to have to rehome Billy. He is absolutely gorgeous but he has obviously been in a house. He is trying to get in the house and the kennels.
I do not want this to end badly.
Rural home preferred.
❤️ heart broken
Deb.
07974 960684
Please ring if you offer this lad a 5 🌟 home.
He is neutered, vaccinated and chipped.
He arrived a couple of months ago, he is such a lovely big soft young cat…
Oh Ely

Oh Ely

I aren’t gonna lie, there are just some dogs that you fall in love with instantly, Ely was certainly one of them.
It was really hard to let him go but it was the right thing to do. He has gone to live with Jess and Millie. He only went on Wednesday and already he has been to the Pickering shop to meet our lovely Emma…

 

See you in February big soft lad…

Nothing has changed

This was posted on the Greyt Exploitations page 9 years ago now.

Nothing has changed..

 
One has to wonder how on earth does an ex greyhound trainer – who once trained a champion dog that was later found dumped in an emaciated and in a severley neglected condition – manage to secure the position of Director of operations for Battersea Dogs Home?
Picture – Velvet Rebel once trained by Peter Laurie and present CEO of the Retired Greyhound Trust – found abandoned in dreadful condition. Rescued by Tia Greyhound and Lurcher Rescue and now enjoying a safe and loving life 🙂
EDIT: Peter Laurie was not the last trainer or breeder to exploit Velvet Rebel – the dog was passed on to Charles Lister OBE and then a breeder. Regardless – Peter Laurie still earned money from this dog and still supports a racing/gambling industry that is responsible for the suffering and deaths of thousands of dogs every year.
 Velvet Rebel has since passed away after years in a loving home.
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Also 3 years ago today..

When we get a call from the stray kennels, it’s always a mystery as to how the dogs have ended up there.
This little girl, now called Spiggie, came off one of the usual suspects. Notorious for rehoming/retiring/giving away free to good homes and generally dumping his dogs on anyone who will take them…
They have been exposed so many times for the state of their kennels, they even made the Sunday papers on one occasion – https://www.express.co.uk/…/Dog-kennels-branded-disgusting
So now i have his attention…
Tenasywiskytrish bn 12/10/2017 raced at Belle Vue until June of this year…
So when said trainer emailed me a few weeks ago wanting to swap kennels i was speechless really as to his continuing stupidity. I don’t have the words.
He wanted to swap his hovel in Ormskirk, that isn’t worth as much as this place just so he can be nearer to the track he is now racing at, after the closure of Belle Vue..
And just to be clear, she didn’t have an envelope around her neck when she was found straying in Bradford, with the £400 bond from the Greyhound Retirement Scheme…she didn’t qualify for that either…
Welcome to Tia, Spiggie…”Not a Hovel”