Equine dentist does a clinic here at Tia…
Every year Martin Brookes, Equine dentist does a clinic here at Tia… He does almost all our horses, free of charge.
Here are just a few pictures… It was chaos, organised chaos though…
Tia Calendar
The calendar is here and all being well, they will be available in all shops next week (lockdown depending)
They will be available on Ebay too, i’ll let you know when.
This years theme is sponsorship. You can sponsor a dog, a horse, the donkeys, a stable or a kennel… If you spread the payments monthly it is better at this end as we know what we have coming in on a monthly basis…
We have 4 pallets of dog food on it’s way and 100 bales of haylage… The animals that are here are safe and i thank you all for that…
Deb
Update
So i have been meaning to do an update for ages, but when the Tesco’s delivery man couldn’t find me and i explained where i was, his reply was “The old Tia place?” so here is the short version.
When Covid hit we lost 60% of our income overnight, with the closing of the Charity shops, and that was very scary.
For the first few months a very, very small team here at the farm kept Tia going. The donations from our supporters were amazing, from money to veg from Morrisons. At one point we had that much food for the animals we didn’t know where to put it all. The chickens were especially pleased…
With everyone wanting dogs we didn’t close we were just careful and around 70 greyhounds went out into homes, the majority of which have stayed.
We haven’t sold the farm yet…but are still hoping to. Over the past 6 months i have been able to get back to my job, ie rehoming animals. The cafe and visitors centre was the worst thing i have ever done, we simply didn’t have the staff or the money to make it a success.
So at present we have just 40 horses, instead of over a 100 which we had two years ago. We have around 60 greyhounds, as opposed to the normal over 100. We also have less shops and less staff, but amazingly we are keeping afloat…
The greyhounds are still coming in thick and fast, we have had 22 in since the Greyhound Retirement Scheme started at the beginning of September…The scheme means that any dog racing on the 1st September will have a £400 bond to go with it towards it’s retirement. None of our dogs qualify, they never will because we pick up all the fallout, as we have been doing for the past 24years. The Sheffield 13 being a classic example.
The 4 charity shops that we have are all open again and doing well.
So that’s it, the short version. Yes we are still here and we have no intentions of going anywhere.
Thanks to everyone, we couldn’t do it without your support…
Deb
We have a new van!
We have a new van. It’s black…. Fortunately we know a guy who has a Tia dog and he is the main sales man at the van shop, so we got a good deal… We need it signing up and i need some inspiration…. Something that will show everyone what Tia is all about…
Maybe a good picture or two…
The pictures need to be high resolution, the bigger megapixels the better…
Please email info@tia-rescue.org
Welcome to Tia Logie!
We have 22 dogs here for rehoming at the minute….obviously that doesn’t include the other 40, the sponsor dogs and the naughty dogs…
We don’t know a massive amount about them as they haven’t been here long…and funnily enough not 1 of them qualified for the £400 from the Greyhound Retirement Scheme…
Especially Logie….
Logie is only 12 months old, he came over from Ireland on Thursday..via a transporter…he has injured himself slightly and couldn’t begin his race career….thank fully the trainer sent him here…..and here is probably where he will stay. He is an absolute nervous wreck…the worst we have had in a long, long while…even worse than Mr Mole…
Welcome to Tia big puppy dog…
Matilda 01/04/2008 – 07/09/2020
It’s very sad but we had to say our goodbyes to Matilda on Monday evening, peacefully, with the help of a great vet and her humans at her side.
Osteosarcoma is nasty and aggressive and even Matilda with all her determination and stoicism could only fight it for a short time.
We miss our morning snuggles in her bed and all the different looks she gave when she wanted you to do something for her, “is that steak going spare?”, “I could do with a neck scratch”, the paw for more, the head nudge, the lean, the harrumph. We already miss her presence, the counterbalance she brought to a crazy world.
The gentlest of souls, but we all knew (especially Max our other greyhound) that she was the boss.
TIA’s Poster girl, calendar girl (twice), loved by everyone she met and protector and mentor of Max, who is a bit lost at the moment.
We are heartbroken, but not far underneath the grief is a smile and a glow of happiness, she lived 12 ½ years and 7 of those with us and 6 months loved and restored to health at TIA Rescue beforehand. She made her own luck by her trust and her determination to overcome her fears.
Her indomitable spirit will live within us and inspire us forever.
Rest in Peace sweetheart. Much loved and forever in our hearts.