Nov 5, 2020 | News
Well here we go again, all our shops and 60% of our income has gone again overnight. Thanks to all our shop staff who had sales and tried to get as much money in as possible over the past few days.
We have had 100 bales of haylage delivered for the horses today and we have 4 pallets of dog food on it’s way. We already have lots and lots of food for the dogs, the only thing we are short of is sardines.
We are sitting tight and just hoping for the best. The calendars are for sale on Ebay as is our other stock stuff, xmas cards, aprons, tea-towels, poo bags, pin badges, hessian bags and rubber leads, so you can always do a bit of online shopping for us.
So it’s the same as always here, the animals still need looking after and that is what we are good at. We have some great staff here at the farm…We currently have 40 horses and 60 dogs to look after and looked after they will be.
We will start rehoming again next weekend, under very strict Covid rules….
Stay safe everyone and look after yourselves and your animals…
Deb
Nov 5, 2020 | News
When we get a call from the stray kennels, it’s always a mystery as to how the dogs have ended up there.
This little girl, now called Spiggie, came off one of the usual suspects. Notorious for rehoming/retiring/giving away free to good homes and generally dumping his dogs on anyone who will take them…
They have been exposed so many times for the state of their kennels, they even made the Sunday papers on one occasion.
So now i have his attention…
Tenasywiskytrish bn 12/10/2017 raced at Belle Vue until June of this year…
So when said trainer emailed me a few weeks ago wanting to swap kennels i was speechless really as to his continuing stupidity. I don’t have the words.
He wanted to swap his hovel in Ormskirk, that isn’t worth as much as this place just so he can be nearer to the track he is now racing at, after the closure of Belle Vue..
And just to be clear, she didn’t have an envelope around her neck when she was found straying in Bradford, with the £400 bond from the Greyhound Retirement Scheme…she didn’t qualify for that either…
Welcome to Tia, Spiggie…”Not a Hovel”
SPIGGIE IS NOW FOSTERED
Nov 3, 2020 | News
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…
Nov 2, 2020 | News
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
Oct 9, 2020 | News
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
Oct 5, 2020 | News
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
Sep 28, 2020 | News, Uncategorized
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…
Sep 15, 2020 | News, Uncategorized
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.
Aug 26, 2020 | News, Uncategorized
Take a look at the September 2020 Edition of Your Dog.
This edition includes reasons to be cheerful, a last word with Stephen Jenkinson and much more!
Click here to read!
Aug 10, 2020 | News
Don’t bother getting in touch. He isn’t going anywhere for the moment. Glencoe is one of the most magnificent greyhounds to pass our threshold in a very long time. We keep going to check on him! Just to see if he needs anything you understand. Like a sardine or a snog. A fresh blanket perhaps or his duvet straightened. At an official weight of 42kgs and no racing form we suspected he had been bred for the coursing industry and we were proved correct.
Winner of a major coursing prize in Ireland a few years ago, he was collected by the dog warden from a house in Bradford a few weeks ago. We know he has been flapping. We know he is underweight. What we don’t know is how the hell he got into the clutches of a frankly notoriously uncaring owner.
…….but we are hell bent on finding out.
