Lizzie is home
Our lovely Lizzie is back home. She went to Royal Park Shires, but unlike the boys that they rehomed Lizzie doesn’t want to do any work. She wants to be a pampered field ornament. Thanks to Gillies transport as always…
Tia Fundraising Shop
The fundraising shop is now open on Facebook.
It’s a place to sell anything you don’t want and to donate the proceeds to Tia.
Happy selling…
Rebecca Perkins “at the time a licensed greyhound trainer”
UPDATE.. She was at court yesterday, she thought she would get off, she even left her car in the carpark. Lie after lie, after lie, she told. Very confident to the point of being cocky.
There will be a full press release soon, either today or tomorrow. I don’t know all the details but she got 36 weeks in prison and a ban from keeping animals.
There were just short of 40 greyhounds in the kennels, no food or water, all emaciated, some to the point of collapse, some dead and rotting. ” unable to walk” “dead in kennel decomposing” “couldn’t move lying it’s own faeces and urine”
One greyhound girl, they thought she was dead, she moved but died shortly afterwards.
Numerous had to be put to sleep.
All snippets from the court yesterday.
The ones with even the slightest chance were taken to York rspca. I believe most recovered and have been rehomed.
The governing regulator for the racing industry had been to her kennels the SCI. The stipendary steward visited too before the authorities got involved. I don’t know who went first or what the timescales were. I don’t care.
The truth of the matter is, she is only one of a number of vile greyhound trainers. Yes there are some good ones and even they will be sickened today. But to be fair the majority of them don’t care. With hundreds and hundreds, even thousands of greyhounds backing up in racing kennels there will and have been other cases like this, “the drunk who went on a bender” for example.
Make no mistake, whilst she was feeding her terriers in the house she left the greyhounds in the kennels to die and if someone hadn’t have spoken up, they all would have.
Make no mistake whilst this was happening she was still a licensed GBGB greyhound trainer. They are bleating on one of the forums…..do you what they are saying? Here you go.
WTF story breaking days leading up to the sports biggest night of the year Derby final,GBGB kept asking RPPCA to back up with data why they want the sport banned.
Now they have got some a licensed trainer jailed for animal neglect,with all the so-called regulations and checks put in place by the GBGB.
Now all the decent people in the sport are going to have to put up with all the looks and snide remarks,
While the anti-brigade rattle there cans.
A VERY SORRY OUTCOME FOR THE WHOLE OF GREYHOUND RACING
To recap….they don’t care….it’s the Derby in 3 days.
And this is exactly why this so called sport needs banning.
GBGB you are an absolute disgrace.
Cuddle your dogs tightly, they could have so very easily not been by your side.
Deb
I flagged this vile woman up over 20 years ago. This industry will never change. They have had decades to sort out the welfare of their dogs and they simply can’t do it. They have been trying really hard to keep this under wraps, we cannot and must not forget about all those poor dogs. Please don’t think this is an isolated case, it isn’t.
There are hundreds, probably thousands of greyhounds just sat waiting in trainers kennels for homes. I’ve no doubt they are blaming the cost of living crisis, they will never blame themselves.
Woman appears in court charged with causing ‘unnecessary suffering’ to dogs on Yorkshire Coast
A woman has appeared before magistrates in Scarborough accused of causing unnecessary suffering to dogs.
Rebecca Perkins, 41, of Hunmanby Road in Burton Fleming, faces three charges of animal cruelty offences that allegedly took place on a farm where she lives on or before September 21 last year.
She appeared at Scarborough Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday April 18.
Ms Perkins is alleged to have caused unnecessary suffering to the protected animals by failing “to ensure the dogs were provided with veterinary care for the causes of their poor body condition, lameness and sores” and “did not ensure the dogs were provided with a suitable environment which was hygienic”.
Magistrates granted unconditional bail and adjourned the case until May 16, when Ms Perkins is set to enter a plea.
Scarborough News.
Update on Escape now Eric
We have decided to call him Eric.
He is doing extremely well, it is day 3 in his foster home and the progress already from day 1 is immense. It’s been a rocky road for the boy but he’s getting there. He’s been in the bath and had a good scrub up and now he’s all fluffy and smells beautiful.
He’s great in the car (photos attached), great with other dogs, not phased by cats, great with people and just genuinely a sweet loving boy, he’s been clean in the house and sleeps through the night. He likes it at the bottom of the stairs so we put a bed there for him, 
He has free reign of the house, he’s not been up the stairs yet or on the sofa despite Samah being antisocial and buggering off to bed all the time, he’s not phased by it and he’s happy just being him. I think this will come with time as his confidence grows, he’s already come on leaps and bounds.
This boy I have no doubt will be ready for his forever home soon, please consider him and spread the word. We want to be able to foster and help as many as we can! Thank you
Update on Phillip
After being on medication for weeks, dropping down to 26kg and scaring us half to death, Phillip is on the mend. He has put on 3 kg and is feeling much happier.
It took a long while but he is almost ready for his forever home. Another couple of weeks just to make sure.
He is a lovely, not very bright, big soft lump.
Donation
We have had a donation by bacs of £1900.00 on the 24th March
We don’t know who it’s from, but we would like to say a huge thankyou for that and the other donations made…
Thanks ever so much….Deb
Mr Perfect
Thank you to Debra and Bob for allowing us to take in Wilbur as a Foster dog and for being willing to meet up half way. Well it turned out a bit further for them than us to be honest. He is settling in surprisingly well so far and seems to have made himself at home.
Just caught up with all the lovely messages, thanks guys. Wilbur is a great hit with all our campers here and enjoying all the attention. As he has absolutely no recall we have booked one of the enclosed fields nearby so he can have a good run about as well as lots of walks. I will update with pictures.
Wilbur enjoying a sunny day out at Lunan bay yesterday . He loves the beach and a paddle but didn’t like the waves too much. He also made new friends in the cafe. He seems to make friends wherever he goes.
Big soft lad in need of a home….
Yesterday we took our Samah to meet Escape as we have decided to foster him. This decision has not come lightly and we have made this decision because we feel he needs to get out of kennels ASAP, he is not a happy boy. He is 5 years old and he reminds us so much of our Franklin with his loving ways, puffing gums and licking us. We dearly miss Franklin and it was difficult seeing Samah with another dog but we’ve decided to give him a chance as it’s the right thing to do. They bonded instantly and Escape liked Samah a bit too much.
We really need to get him to a permanent home and we will post updates with his progress over the next few weeks. Happy to answer anyone’s questions about any of the dogs we have posted about and have knowledge of.
We are planning to have one of the boys from Tia so we need to make room for one of these with the help of someone taking Escape on permanently. Escape will steal your heart instantly he is such a calm, caring and loving boy.
We are not doing this because of his colour, age or anything like that we are doing it because over the past few weeks we have been walking Escape along with the others Mitchell, Essy, Teddy, Buck, Ranch, Sadie, Liam, Mikey etc and we feel Escape is the most unhappy boy in kennels and we want to help him out of there ASAP. We want to help them all but we have had to make our choice based on how we feel emotionally and Escape really has melted our hearts. However all the others still need homes as previously mentioned and Escape will need a permanent home.
Please consider giving Escape a permanent home, Debs is fully on board with us and we want to push and do the right thing for these dogs.
Please share and spread the word let’s get these dogs homes ASAP.
Salacres Armani
As you are probably aware, things have changed a lot in the way we are rehoming down in England. This is Salacres Armani. She is the 3rd one to have been rehomed direct from the trainer. He does have other dogs available so please look on the website.
We are still doing our very best and we have 3 greyhound girls coming up here next week for rehoming, as well as the beautiful boys already here.
Thanks Deb
Thankyou James, Ally & Ada
As you can probably see, I am learning to update the website….badly.
Anyhow, James & Ally and the beautiful greyhound Ada have just sent us a lovely donation of £200.
They own the above business and will be donating 20% of all sales to Tia.
That is absolutely amazing….Thank you, a lot….Deb..