Oct 1, 2022 | News
It was the 15th January 2017 when I was at Askern picking some dogs up and this brindle boy let me know, very loudly and downright nastily, to stay away from his kennel. Rude.
You can’t have him love, he’ll have you. He’s waiting on the vet. Whatever…
He is still a sod, absolutely loves winding the girls up in the kennels “he won’t come in”
I very rarely let my picture be taken when I heard a click….Naughty Freda.
Nearly 6 years on and I love this boy to bits. Without a shadow of a doubt out in the real world he would have been destroyed. He is safe here, he is a one off, a grumpy old man who knows his own mind.
Rogers Rover bn 19/05/2014 short racing career at Nottingham, trainer P C White, he will never have given this dog a second thought.
I’ll never let you down….Oh Sandy
Oct 1, 2022 | News
Well we have managed to sort out most of the Askern dogs, at the minute there are just 2 left on the allotment and a big fawn dog waiting for a space.
Manda from Northern Greyhound Rescue has taken 4 girls and 2 boys, 3 have come up here and 7 have gone into foster homes. Thanks to everyone who has helped so far.
We still need homes for the fawn boy Willy and Hopkirk & Nathan who need off the allotment before it gets too cold.
Sadly I still have my friend’s Rita’s three dogs here and they are going to be here a while yet. They are okay. Two of them were from Tia originally but the old boy she got directly from Ireland and he has been with her for the past six and a half years. He isn’t used to kennel life but he’s getting better. They were in a right state when they got here. The transporter was appalling, they had no bedding or water, it was a hot day and Bandit was in his own faeces and probably had been for a long while. Bandit and Tango were almost in a state of collapse. I have never seen anything like it. It was touch and go whether they went to the vets. Fortunately cooling coats, electrolytes, years of experience and the dogs knowing they were back home evaded a bad outcome.
Another minute on that van and I think it would have been a different matter The driver couldn’t get off the yard quick enough and the owner of the firm just tried to worm his way out of it, lying and blaming everyone else. I have reported him to Defra. So please if you need to use a transporter, don’t use the guy who lives in Silsden.
Deb
Aug 28, 2022 | News
The rehoming page has been updated with all the dogs for rehoming/fostering.
All the boys that are on the allotment have now been neutered and had dentals and are ready to go into foster homes.
The girls cannot be done and then returned to the allotment, it just wouldn’t be fair. They need to be in homes first.
We have only had 5 foster homes so far. Apollo, Peter, Blanche, Glenda and Vicky. To be honest I am very disappointed. I’ve managed to squeeze another four in, not to mention 3 boys from the same home who were fetched up here last week from Chorley as their owner became ill. (That’s another story for a later date, but if you are planning to use a Pet Transportation firm in Silsden, please don’t.)
I’ve just had to refuse eleven from the shed in Bradford that I’m sure you all know about.
The last race day at Askern is the 23rd of September. Please don’t think all those dogs racing on that night will be going back to loving homes. They wont, it’s more likely they will end up like the little girl drowned in Beverley not so long ago, weighted down in the canal. Just google it, it’s horrific.
After 27 years in rescue welfare is back, very firmly to square one….
I know things are awful at the minute but please, please help me help these dogs.
Thanks Deb
Aug 28, 2022 | News
Fundraising Manager
Tia Rescue, IV12, Nairn (Hybrid)
£18,000 – £25,000 per year based on experience (pro-rata for part-time)
Fundraising Manager Required to Help Support Our Dogs and Horses
Job description
Tia Rescue is growing its team by creating a new role of Fundraiser. We have just moved to a new site near to Nairn in Scotland and have exciting and challenging plans to develop this new location to look after our rescued greyhounds and heavy horses. You can be a core part of this challenge by developing and expanding our fundraising activities.
We want to use your experience and enthusiasm to make a significant difference to our finances and to engage with local, regional, and national communities about our work. You will need to focus on developing our various existing avenues of fundraising and identifying and implementing additional new channels of income for the charity. It will be a challenging task, but your experience and insight is needed to make it all happen. You will be enthusiastic and self-motivated with the ability to work on your own initiative whilst also working closely with our wider team. You will need to be assertive, yet tactful and able to convey our cause while engaging with stakeholders. You will have a proven ability to build and nurture relationships, with a solid foundation of skills in event management along with previous experience of charity fundraising.
The role will be mainly working from home; however, we would expect the candidate to visit the main site in Scotland from time to time as well as occasional visits to our local charity shops and local and regional supporters/funders, mainly based in Yorkshire.
A full Job Description is available to help provide additional background to the role.
CharityJob.co.uk
https://www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/tia-rescue/fundraising-manager/850832?tsId=6
Aug 25, 2022 | News
To date we have received just over £3000 for the Askern dogs. This will all go to the neutering and dentals for the dogs. Some of which are being done at Donaldson’s. Some of which will be done up here.
Wilbur & Colleen are on their way up as I type
Thanks everyone, please if at all possible could you set up a monthly donation. No matter how small then we know what we have coming in. At the minute there’s a lot more going out than is coming in…
Tia Greyhound & Lurcher Rescue
Account no….76587576
Sort code….60-09-27
Aug 23, 2022 | News
A lovely testament to a lovely greyhound girl… Lumin
Hi Deb
I’m writing with such sad sad news that my absolute soulmate and our beautiful gorgeous blue girl, Lumin , was put to sleep today. An X-Ray confirmed osteo carcinoma after I noticed she couldn’t jump on the bed on Weds and she favoured her leg on Thursday. A lump appeared on her stifle on Saturday morning and grew on Sunday. She saw the vet on Monday and had an X-Ray today that confirmed the worst so we asked them to keep her asleep. She had been so unlike herself since Thursday and was clearly in pain – we can’t believe how quickly she became so poorly and we did not want to prolong her pain for our benefit. They’d given her 2-3 weeks. I am beyond grief.
We had had her since she was 4 and she was 11 on 16th June. We took her home from TIA to be a confident girl for Ezra – she’d just been spayed and you told us that she nearly died on the operating table – I took her stitches out at home so we could bring her home asap rather than wait for her.
She was a year younger than my daughter and she taught my son and daughter about love, patience, responsibility, commitment, kindness and a million other things. She was a huge special character, a mischievous, counter surfing bin tipper who once ate 3 chocolate oranges one Christmas from under the tree and I loved her so much.
We still have Ramon/Ballyrhan Buddy/Ezra who is lost.
I just wanted to let you know.
I’m sure when the time is right we’ll be back in touch.
Best wishes
Sally
