Dec 1, 2025 | News
A huge thank you to everyone who entered the 500 club draw – entries are now closed. The winners of the first prize draw will be announced later today!
But as we move into December, we are pleased to announce two more fundraising events we hope you’ll get involved with…
Christmas Raffle 2025
As always, we have launched our annual Christmas Raffle! There are only two prizes this year, but they’re whoppers.
- An enormous Luxury Hamper containing over 80 items for yourself, festive visitors and your four legged friends. The hamper will be delivered to you wherever in the country you are.
- A week in the static caravan at Tia Rescue or you can upgrade to the holiday let for a donation of £200.
Entries cost £5 – you can enter here.
Memory Tree
After the success of last years memory tree, we pleased to be running it again this year.
Like last year, we are going to cover the Christmas Tree in the kennels with natural wood heart shaped decorations, each one with the name and message of your choice.
This can be in memory of a much-loved pet, family member, or simply to send Christmas Greetings to Tia’s residents, past & present.
We ask for a minimum £5 per heart, although you are welcome to donate as much as you would like above this.
You can buy your heart (s) here.
Proceeds from all fundraisers go directly towards the care of the animals at Tia Rescue, registered charity 1105626 (England & Wales), and SC051782 (Scotland).
Tallulah, Joey, and Lizzie, available for sponsorship here
Nov 28, 2025 | News
Rehoming
Available for rehoming
December is just around the corner! But, before we all tuck in to the turkey, we have one final transport to Scotland planned for 14th December.
Santa already has a few very special packages on his sleigh, but he still has room for more! And there is only one thing our hounds have on their Christmas list this year… it is of course… a home!
Here are just a few of the dogs keeping everything crossed that they’ll be on the transport and “driving home for Christmas”
If you’re based in Scotland, and can help get one of our hounds home, please email rehoming@tia-rescue.org. Please include your phone number in the email.
We request a minimum donation of £350 to adopt.
Redbrick Brothers
This week there’s been good news for two of the Redbrick Brothers! Mars has been reserved by a lovely family and will be heading North of the border in mid December. Rolo meanwhile has found himself in a wonderful short-term foster whilst he waits to find his forever family.
24 hours in, and his foster family tell us he’s a super affectionate boy who is already clean in the house and will wait by the door when he needs to go outside.
It’s great to see these overlooked black boys finally getting their chance. Like so many, they had both been waiting far too long.
A seriously striking boy, Jet is only 2 years old and really just a baby. He’s quite a serious soul who gets top marks for manners in his kennel. He is never any trouble and spends most of his time laid quietly in his bed.
Jet is very recently retired due to a muscle injury and needs someone to show him there is life away from the track. He’s quite keen at the minute but once Jet understands that trips to the park and for strolls & sniffs, he’ll be just fine.
Woody
On the last check on Wednesday, Woody was really lame on his back right leg. I think its his hip. He has been quiet for ages, but i just thought he was missing Maha. He’s off his food too.
Lets hope it’s nothing horrible. I am seriously fed up of losing these old dogs. He is no bother in the office/house/large dog kennel, so here he will stay.
It costs just £52 per year to sponsor Woody – you can do so here.
Kenny
Here’s Little Kenny heading off back down to Hornsea, at stupid o’clock, to be reunited with his previous owner, Julie, who makes the dog collars. Safe journey little man.
Kenny was originally from the death field in Wroot. He was 2 weeks old when we got him…his mom had died. He is now six years old…gonna miss you…
Thanks again to Gillies Horse Transport, who are simply the best…
Events
Tia Christmas Walk
We will be having a Christmas themed stroll around Cannon Hall, Cawthorne, Barnsley, S75 4AT with the hounds around 11am on Sunday 14th December.
At the end of the walk we will be having a Secret Santa Lucky Dip. A lovely dog themed present containing several gifts for your dogs and a few for the humans. They are £10 each but Shell & Paul, you can have a discount with your tribe. Foster dog presents will be free of charge.
Meeting point will be just off the main car park where the Tia stall usually sits, just behind the Pavillion cafe.
Cannon Hall grounds has a lovely walk, toilets and food.
Come along and get some wear out of the Christmas jumpers on you and your hounds.
Tinsel is optional…
500 club
Another reminder that the last day to enter the 500 club draw is the 30th November – that’s this Sunday! A huge thank you to everyone who has purchased tickets so far.
There are three draws, and in each you can win one of three prizes;
- £500
- £200
- £100
So, if you’re really lucky, you could win £500 in all three draws – that’s £1500, which for just £10 an entry is a no-brainer!
There is no limit to the number of times you can enter.
BUY YOUR TICKETS HERE
The first draw will be made the day after entries close, on the 1st December. All winners will be announced here and on Facebook.
All proceeds will go directly towards the care of the animals at Tia Greyhound & Lurcher Rescue.
Conrad, Victor, and Logan
Stable hand vacancy
Our lovely yard staff have offered to step up to help in the kennels on the odd day, which leaves us with a vacancy on the yard.
Stable hand required, 4 days a week, 8am – 4pm. Must be flexible and have own transport. Experience is essential.
Minimum wage applies.
Call Deb on 07974 960684
Nov 27, 2025 | News
Just a reminder that the last day to enter the 500 club draw is the 30th November – that’s this Sunday!
There are three draws, and in each you can win one of three prizes;
- £500
- £200
- £100
So, if you’re really lucky, you could win £500 in all three draws – that’s £1500, which for just £10 an entry is a no-brainer!
There is no limit to the number of times you can enter.
BUY YOUR TICKETS HERE
The first draw will be made the day after entries close, on the 1st December. All winners will be announced here and on Facebook.
All proceeds will go directly towards the care of the animals at Tia Greyhound & Lurcher Rescue.
Jay, Hubble, and Kiona.
Apr 18, 2025 | Recently Rehomed
Mars (Redbrick Mars)
born Oct 21
Very quiet and unsure. Needs someone understanding to bring him out of his shell. Mars will find his way with the right family. Last saw a track in earnest Oct 23.
Unfortunately, we don’t have any more photos of him, and not a great deal more to say other than Mars could probably live as an only dog or with a female hound. He’s been kennelled on his own since Elsa left and has been doing OK. He’s a very nice boy who again has been easy to walk.
Aug 6, 2025 | Dogs for Rehoming
Salacres Logan
born 22.6.2021
Drillers brother, and equally beautiful. Off to the races in tomorrow to see if he can add to his tally of 18 wins. Working lads don’t have time to chat and last week he was robbed. It is fair to say though that he is coming to the end of his career and ……it’s time!
Logan has around 100 races under his belt and still earning his corn. We hear that he is a nice calm steady dog but probably would not want to be homed with another dog. Likes girls though.
Here’s what we have learned since he came on our radar…
“Logan is a medium/large boy who is mainly white with a black mask, black patches, cute smattering of black spots on his nose and handsome brown eyes. He is quite the ladies man but not so keen on some of the other males. He is a really people friendly lad and a pleasure to walk. He is very nosey, interested in what’s going on around him and wants to investigate. He is also up for a cuddle and a good Greyhound lean on you the minute he gets a chance”
Apr 18, 2025 | Recently Rehomed
River (Monbeg River)
born Jan 22
Likes to go for walks and be out and about. Meeting new people, that sort of thing. No-one told him that you had to move a bit faster to get on a track. River was last in his only race, back in Aug 23 at Enniscorthy. Hammered by 14 lengths, River found himself on a ferry bound for Doncaster and a fresh start. Maybe he was a late bloomer. Six godawful trials later and the trainer refused to be further embarrassed. Even our Branno beat him with ease.
This lad has been waiting for a home to show up and and spring him from the kennel of shame.
His trainer couldn’t agree more!
Oct 24, 2025 | Recently Rehomed
Dolly (Kilrue Dolly)
born June 22
Her career in the noble profession, for which she was bred lasted 104 days. We think the 18 lengths trouncing might have something to do with it. Her connections headed to the bar.
Dolly doesn’t care. Life is great. Terrific. Look at me. Another tiny girl, looking for her sofa. Everyone loves her and there will be some tears when she goes.
Nov 7, 2025 | News
A Very Sad State Of Affairs
Looking back through Facebook, its always the same posts. Begging for money, begging for volunteers and begging for staff in the kennels. I don’t mean recently, its always been the same for the past twenty years.
We have really good staff at the Pickering shop, Emma and Sally and Josh who runs the office down in Doncaster. We have a fab team up here on the yard but we are down to just one (amazing) member of staff and 3 (equally amazing) volunteers in the kennels.
The slippy floor continues to be a risk to the dogs, there is only so much carpet you can cut, another major factor.
Of course Bob is picking up all the extra work but I’ve had enough. We haven’t had a proper holiday in 8 years. 7 days a week he does, every week, every month, every year.
So there are lots of decisions to made in the future. But for now there are no more dogs (unless emergencies like Duchess) coming in to kennels.
Every day trainers are begging for me to take their dogs. If I said yes there would be a race up the A1 to see who could get here first. And of course the offer of money, per dog, is going up.
We have eighteen sponsor dogs here at the farm. But I doubt Lana, Dot and Bungle will see the New Year in. They will as always get whatever they need. There are quite possibly thousands of dogs backing up in trainers kennels.
We have 15 empty kennels. It breaks my heart.
Rehoming
Hugo’s Journey
On a more positive note, this is Hugo.
Three weeks ago, he was in the stray kennel in Leeds.
A short stay here and now…
Good luck little man. A cracking little lad…
Boost and Annie
Poor Boost is having no luck whatsoever finding himself a home. So we wonder if a search alongside his kennel-mate, Annie, might prove more fruitful? It’s normally harder to find homes for two but both Boost & Annie need re-homing with another dog for company, so why not see if we can find them somewhere together?
Greyhounds are used to living in pairs and often benefit from having another hound for company. And let’s face it… it’s no more effort to walk two… it’s obviously the reason we were given two hands?!
Boost (left) is a lovely quiet boy who retired yonks ago and has been waiting over a year for a home. He walks nicely on his lead (no drama or silliness) and his calm nature gives kennel-mate, Annie, a lot of reassurance. Her trainer tells us timid Annie is like a different dog when Boost is around.
Annie is a shy girl who takes her time to get to know new people but is friendly with the people she trusts. She can be a bit worried and needs patient adopters who understand that she is not yet familiar with the outside world. Annie gains a great deal of confidence from Boost and would find it easier to adjust with him (or another calm dog) by her side.
We appreciate two is a big ask but this pair really do benefit from each other’s company.
Dolly
Her connections may have rolled their eyes when she came in 18 lengths behind the competition, but little did they know, there was method in the pint-sized madam’s madness!
See our Dolly doesn’t care for getting sand between her toes. She’d make an exception for the warm & sunny beach of St Tropez, but in the drizzle and damp of Donny, it really gave her the ick!The solution she realised was simple… hang back when the others leave the traps… and dawdle your way to the finish as if you’re out for an afternoon stroll! And now everyone thinks you’re rubbish, you can spend your days doing what you do best… looking cute & pretty! Not a grain of sand in sight!Dolly is 3 years old, very friendly and cute as a button.If you can offer Boost, Annie, or Dolly a home, please email rehoming@tia-rescue.org.
Please leave your phone number in the email!
Wood for sale
As some of you may know we have just over 30 acres of woodland here, mainly silver birch. We have recently had the woodland thinned out, but the contractors have left an awful lot of decent wood on the floor.
If anyone is wanting any firewood for next year, please get in with Deb touch on on 07974 960684. We are asking for donations for the Charity.
Aug 6, 2025 | Recently Rehomed
Salacres Bonnie
born 20.8.21
Twenty wins, and was in the van with the boys last night at Towcester. Bonnie came in last but didn’t disgrace herself as she is a pro! She’ll forge ahead next time and dazzle all the boys, you’ll see. All they will see is her backside. A straightforward lady in the kennel, who can be relied on to get on with her mate. A godsend to any trainer (and rescue).
There won’t be a dry eye in the house when Bonnie goes off to her family but her trainer would rather make it sooner than later. At four years old, Bonnie owes the game nothing and her connections would like to see her finish in one piece. They will miss her though.
Apr 24, 2025 | Recently Rehomed
Will (Chasing Williebe)
born Sept 21
A lovely friendly sort of lemon, who is great with his kennel mates. Loves everyone. He forgot to pack the talent he had shown in Ireland and hasn’t troubled the judges at Doncaster. Last spotted at said track from some distance away, back in November 24.
In short, his career leaves much to be desired! So what, even champions have to hang up their muzzles at some point and he does have eight wins to brag about.
Medium size dog who should be on his own sofa now. No-one has looked at him twice.
