Jun 15, 2021 | 25/25, News
As part of our 25th anniversary we’ll be posting 25 stories, from the very start of Tia to where we are now.
We have sold Mill Race Farm. Although it’s in the early stages i am confident that it will go through, so we are looking for Tia’s next and permanent home. When we bought Moorside Farm we paid the mortgage off in 6 years and i am wanting to do this again so that Tia’s future is secure. Please help us achieve this by buying a brick for Tia, as part of our ‘25 years of Tia brick appeal‘.
1992 – A Rude Awakening.
Some of this is from an old newsletter..
It was a lovely sunny day, i’d passed my probation in the Police, bought a nice little house and was the proud owner of a Boxer dog and a battered old Mini Metro. Eric the terrier had come along by accident, a 6 week old terrier pup, fetched into the Police station in an elderly ladies shopping bag. He had escaped from the box of puppies that had been dumped near her house. The rest of the puppies went to the stray kennel, there was one in Halifax at that time. A week later i saw the puppies at the stray kennel…the week after that they had all been put to sleep. That’s what happened then. The kennels claiming the destruction fee, easier than trying to rehome them.
My neighbour at this time, who had lurchers, had got himself a new dog. She was in his shed, absolutely terrified, a black skinny thing, all legs and worry. ” A greyhound” he said. “Too slow, but she pees in the house”
A few days later a boxer girl was handed in at the Police station and taken to the same pound. I told them i would adopt her when her seven days were up. I went to see her at the pound and whilst i was there a young girl came running out of the kennels absolutely heartbroken. She couldn’t speak at first. Then she did. He’s been kicking dogs to death…..
I left and rang the licensing officer, it was the Police back then who licensed the kennels. Whilst i was waiting for him, a vet turned up to put the strays to sleep. How many are you putting to sleep? “Just the 6”
He left, the Sergeant landed and we checked the bright blue shiny bags….There were over a dozen dead dogs, most of which the vet hadn’t seen.
And there she was the little black greyhound girl…..dead.
The neighbour got both barrels…..i would have had her.
And so it began….
Jun 8, 2021 | News
We have sold Mill Race Farm, although it’s in the early stages i am confident that it will go through. We are looking for Tia’s next and permanent home. When it is up and running me and Bob are going to take a step back, by that i mean have some days off. We can’t carry on doing 7 days a week, every week, every year.
I will be posting 25 stories, from the very start of Tia to where we are now. It will make some interesting reading i can assure you. The racing industry might not be too pleased but it is all factual information. I have lots to say and lots of data that is going to be published too.
When we bought Moorside we paid the mortgage off in 6 years and i am wanting to do this again so that Tia’s future is secure when we aren’t about…
So i am asking you to buy a brick or multiple bricks, they are £25 each and we will be publishing our progress weekly on the website.
Me and Bob are buying the first 100….£2500.
Lets do this …
Deb
To buy a brick please head to
https://www.tia-rescue.org/product/buy-a-brick-for-tia/
Jun 6, 2021 | News
When Facebook was in an uproar over a grey Shire mare that was at York horse sales. I just messaged the girls and told them to buy her and we would reimburse them. A short while later Macy Grey arrived at Tia. She was filthy and in a terrible state. Terrified. She was bathed and put out with the other Shires in the big fields. Exactly a month to the day of her arriving, Bob was in the fields when he saw something odd in the field. Unbeknown to us the beautiful big grey Shire had been in foal and she had popped out little Ellie. Ellie was born deformed with a curvature to her spine. We had her for almost four years before her deformity took hold and we had to have her put to sleep.
Macy always had shocking hooves from her neglect over the years and we tried and tried and tried some more. But last week we had to say goodbye to her too…Just 6 years we had her. She was no trouble, a big soft mare gone far too soon, only 12 years old….
Deb
Jun 2, 2021 | News
May 23, 2021 | News
WEEK SIX-ISH
WOOPIE-DO – I’ve finally managed to impress the Dragon! She says ‘any dog who contrives to remove a tin from the plastic six-pack and then open the ring-pull lid, deserves an extra tin!’
PS I’ve not got into any ‘real’ trouble for two whole days. Hope she’s got more chicken wings for tomorrow…
Both Pim’s books are available directly from Tia via eBay, with all proceeds helping us rescue and support retired and abandoned greyhounds.
May 16, 2021 | News
WEEK THREE
Hi guys and that includes you Horton! Well, I’ve been living here in the Dragon’s Den for three weeks now, and there has been one day that I didn’t get into trouble!
I am still struggling to remember these damn rules. I simply don’t understand why I cannot help myself to the fruit bowl, breadbin, fridge, open cupboard or anything else within my reach. As for the pee pee rule, I’m not sure I’ll ever get the hand of that one.
The food (that I’m supposed to have, and that which I’m not!) is great and I’ve put some inches on my middle. My six-pack is looking good girls! The frequent walks are a doddle. Dragon has been taking me into a big field once a day and letting me off my lead to run. I’ll let her continue believing that I come back to her whistle, but really it’s the pack of digestive biscuits she carries with her.
Last thing at night she takes us all out and the other two have such a great time chasing foxes in the fields. I wish I could join in, but the Dragon won’t let me. She said, ‘Not until you’ve lost the family jewels!’ Which is odd – I didn’t know I had a family, let alonr the jewels.
Wonder what’s on the menu tomorrow?
Both Pim’s books are available directly from Tia via eBay, with all proceeds helping us rescue and support retired and abandoned greyhounds.
May 15, 2021 | News
As you may be aware, there haven’t been any dogs on the site for a week or two. We are extremely busy with everything that is going on, including getting the Charity shops back up and running. Another couple of months without them and i wouldn’t have been sat here typing, it would have been a very different, unimaginable story.
They have had to be our priority over the past weeks.
But now i am back to the dogs, which have been coming in at an alarming rate. Erin has been today to take pictures so hopefully they will be on the site towards the end of the week.
I have recently sent 21 dogs out to other rescues, that i trust, Early Paws, Eastern Counties Greyhound Trust, Lisa at Greyhound Gap and Manda & Nat at Northern Greyhound Rescue….
We still have Tucker, Boddam and Tranent who are taking root…Cullen has just come back from a home and Noup. They need somewhere quiet with a greyhound girl to show them the ropes. Then we have the newbies, Aggie, Eadlin, Effie, Florrie(puppies mom), Sally, Angus, Bran, Brenton, Camdyn, Rian, Joe, Rav and Dev. There are another 5 coming in tommorrow.
So whilst other charities are shipping greyhounds in from Ireland, we are sinking again under the sheer volume. Just guess they don’t have an exciting back story. Still there isn’t a problem with greyhound racing is there.
Deb
May 10, 2021 | News
A certain national microchip organisation!!!
Please, everyone with Tia dogs, take extra care with them until this upgrade meltdown is sorted. Most Tia dogs are registered with them, one way or another. If they get loose God forbid, they won’t be recovered so easily. Let us know.
In fact, take extra care even if they aren’t Tia dogs!!!
May 9, 2021 | News
DAY TWELVE
I am having so many setbacks at present, the dragon is calling me the ‘hound from hell’, and says she is fast losing ‘the will to live’. Now she know what many of us feel like in the pound/kennels or worse. I don’t really like telling you about my misdemeanours on a daily basis, so think I will go onto a weekly blog – maybe it won’t sound so bad that way?
I did find out today, when I helped her unload the shopping and took care of the toilet paper, that the dragon doesn’t like the Andrex dog either! However I did discover that things don’t look so bad to her when she has been drinking gin. I do hope the dragon has more gin for tomorrow. Cheers!
Both Pim’s books are available directly from Tia via eBay, with all proceeds helping us rescue and support retired and abandoned greyhounds.
May 3, 2021 | News
We are branching out. Extending our Empire, just like Hannibal except we don’t have any elephants. The Pickering shop has been one of the backbones of this charity for more years than I can remember. The gentle little town has always looked after us and never given us any cause for concern. However we have to try new things now and then so when Tia launched a new enterprise, Pickering couldn’t have been a better place to start.
The old Charity shop on the corner has been turned into a Traditional Sweets and Dog Treats shop. A lot of volunteers went over and above to make this a reality and it looks super. Just as we imagined it. The dogs aren’t getting a look in as their owners indulge in a humbug fest. Frankly some are wallowing in nostalgia, blowing the housekeeping on Rosey Apples and Cola Bottles.
Also welcome to a new member of staff, Brilliant Bassett. Like so many waifs and strays he came to Tia in urgent need of TLC but is now ready to earn his keep. Hat askew, not too steady on his pins and a bit of bald bum syndrome, he now looks the part. He is there purely for selfies and wants to know where people are coming from to visit him…he wants to be famous again.
We are hoping to go viral with him if he proves a hit. Please keep supporting us at the original shop, we are next door but one!
