Thursday, June 29, 2006

Welcome to our official News Blog for Greyhound Gap

As we are due to update our website soon we thought it was necessary to add a newspage but thought it would be more fun to do that in the form of blog.

So who are Greyhound Gap and what do we do?

Each year hundreds of healthy greyhounds & lurchers are needlessly put to sleep in the UK and this figure is repeated throughout many countries in the world!
The lucky ones make it into rescue, however the story doesn't end there! There are many rescues the length and breadth of the country looking for homes. There are also many potential adopters looking for the right dog to join their family. There is a "gap" between these two parties in terms of distance, the need for homechecking, transporting the dog or quite simply even knowing that each other exists!
This is where Greyhound Gap comes in. The whole aim of this site is to fill that gap by assisting rescues and new potential adopters in their quest to find the perfect home for the perfect dog. The more the rescues can home, the more lucky ones they can make way for.
We have now compiled a list of greyhound rescue centres in the UK and Eire in an attempt to provide an easy source of reference to their nearest centre for people who are looking to adopt a greyhound. The rescue list can be found on the online forum.
Please feel free to use the board to ask any questions you have regarding these dogs, as there is a vast amount of knowledge and personal opinions to be sought amongst the members there.
As well as the service we and our volunteers offer to already established rescues, Greyhound Gap also actively takes in and re-homes death row Greyhounds and Lurchers who find themselves in a PTS situation in UK pounds.
Whilst in our care, all dogs are placed in foster situations which we find preferable to kennel facilities allowing us to build up our own history on the dogs. This allows us to match each dog and each new potential adopter making for an easier and stress free homing.
All dogs that come into our care are spayed/neutered, vaccinated, microchipped, de-flead and wormed before re-homing as well as receiving a full vet check and any other necessary treatment. As you can appreciate this costs us a great deal. We are totally self funded and have to work hard to raise the necessary monies required. This is made possible by fantastic support from our network of volunteers and you, the general public. More information on how you can help can be found within the pages of this website.
Homechecks will be required before we will place any of our dogs and we also pride ourselves on the fact we consider our dogs to be rescued for life. Should any problems occur at anytime and it becomes necessary for our dogs to leave their new home they must be returned to our care.
Greyhound Gap operates on a National basis so our dogs can be homed in most areas throughout the UK.

I hope that through the pages of this blog you come to understand more about why we do our work and how come its so important.

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