Nov 23, 2020 | News
“We fostered the beautiful Tind for 5 weeks. She quickly settled into home life after a couple of nervous days to start with. She loves nothing more than snoozing in her bed and playing with squeaky toys. She loves meeting new people and munching on apple and carrot. She mastered the stairs really quickly and a couple of commands eg “in your bed”. She likes to have a routine and knows when to go to bed at night – she happily slept in her bed on the landing after getting used to being on her own at night.
She doesn’t need much exercise and was reluctant to walk for more than about 30mins a day, but hopefully this might improve with time once she is settled.
Although she’s happy to greet other medium/large dogs on a walk, she didn’t quite take to smaller dogs or neighbouring cats! She can pull on the lead if she sees any small furries but walks well otherwise and happily wears her muzzle and coat.
She’s a brilliant dog, full of affection and will make a great companion for someone. We really hope she finds her forever home soon”
Nov 16, 2020 | News
When they called me from Askern track a couple of days ago to let me know this little chap had legged it, I was very worried…but the owners spent days and nights trying to find him…then the sightings ran out until this lunchtime…
When they rang me to say he had been spotted only a mile from the track we jumped into action. When we got nearby we feared the worst, the traffic was stopped on the A19…Little did we know that the owner of the dog had stopped all the traffic as he was heading for the road. Thanks to the wagon driver that stopped and to his owner for clambering under the lorry to retrieve said dog…We were mortified as we thought he had been run over, but he hadn’t, he had been caught, much to everyone’s relief…
He is worn out poor lad. He is very sore and battered and bruised. He has had pain relief, antibiotics and a tin of Chappie…..slowly, slowly little man…
Wait for your supper.
Welcome to Tia Loki
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 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…
