Yes it’s here again, the Xmas cards are for sale in the Pickering shop and on the website. They are also for sale at all branches of Donaldson’s vets and Moray Coast vets.
We are on with the calendar and it should be here in a couple of weeks. We only have a limited number of calendars this year and they will only be available to buy through the website.
Thanks Deb
Tia Rescue is a greyhound and heavy horse charity registered in both England & Wales and in Scotland and is completely independent of the greyhound racing industry. We are dedicated to the rescue, care and rehoming of our wonderful animals.
As we now have charitable registration in Scotland as well as in England & Wales, we are looking for additional trustees to help us in our mission. The responsibilities of trustees are outlined in charity legislation, but essentially, your role will be to help guide the charity into the future, helping to develop and maintain the effective and efficient running of the organisation.
The demands of being a trustee mean that a time commitment is important. In addition to regular board meetings, (approximately on a quarterly basis), sub-groups discuss detailed aspects of the charity’s work in order to support the operational team and bring recommendations to the full board. There are also meetings in between these times to support particular projects or programmes of work. Currently meetings are virtual. This will be reviewed periodically based on circumstances and need.
We are looking for new trustees to support us in increasing the charity’s impact. You need to be able to commit to regular meetings, mostly online, work on projects outside of meetings, and be a team player. We welcome trustees from all backgrounds, but skills and experience in Finance, People management and welfare, PR/communications, animal health and welfare, business development, IT and digital development, legal and compliance are especially useful. Having said that, enthusiasm in supporting the aims of the charity are the most important aspect of a trustee and everyone can contribute to the success of Tia. We particularly welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds, and will provide support to help new trustees in their role.
If you think this role is for you, please contact us in the first instance by emailing deb@tia-rescue.org
These two boys are still on the allotment. Can someone please foster them.
There is a lot of bad stuff happening in the racing industry and the majority of it is down to the Greyhound Retirement Scheme and the rehoming centres who jumped on the bandwagon throughout Covid. The dogs were very desirable then with their £400 bond. Basically if you took a greyhound in and signed up to the the scheme you got £400 for every dog you took.
Now with no one adopting dogs, greyhounds are not only backing up in trainers kennels but in rescues too. Even other rescues have been messaging me trying to get greyhounds out of “all breed rescues” to make room for the little desirable dogs that they can rehome quicker.
The trainers, with retired dogs backing up and their income declining as they have less runners, what do you think they are going to do with their dogs.? It is happening, greyhound welfare is in crisis. There is a massive amount of neglect/cruelty and down right filth that the Greyhound Board of Great Britain are trying to keep under wraps.
It is absolutely shameful and probably no better than it was when I started.
Nathan and Hopkirk just need out and to be safe.
Deb
I have known Albert for so long i can’t remember exactly. A greyhound man.
He has trained greyhounds for years and we have had a lot of dogs off him, a lot of big money dogs. He had a dog in the last ever race at Askern on the 23rd September and won. This isn’t the dog, this is Cash who was retired several months ago due to a slight injury. He didn’t want to break him or let anything bad happen to him so he fetched him to Tia. It was obviously much easier when we were in Doncaster, he would drop them off on his way to the track. Still, he fetched him over 400 miles as he knows that he will be well looked after.
I’ll miss seeing Albert and some of the other trainers that I used to take dogs off, but some I will be pleased, never to set eyes on again.
Deb
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
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
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
Fearmore Fionn bn 16/8/19
He came over from Ireland in March last year and has raced at Askern since then.
Redundant big black boy….
Final Fact bn 7/2/20
Still a puppy really, only had 7 races at Monmore….the last one in February this year.
What’s wrong with this one? Serial Offender J b Thompson?