Just before the lockdown we agreed to an emergency intake of four 8 week old lurcher puppies that had been bred, but were left unsold, so no longer wanted. Kennels really wasn’t the best place for such tiny, unvaccinated pups, so one of our wonderful volunteer foster families welcomed them into their home to prepare …
Happy Homing Stories
Happy homing for Harper
With the coronavirus measures in place it has been hard for us to home our dogs. However, a special set of circumstances allowed us to get lovely lurcher Harper into her forever home this weekend. The home Harper went into was one already known to us, with a dog that we had homed there two …
Wonderful Winnie heads for her forever home
2018 got off to a great start for Winnie, who found her forever home! As you can see from these pictures, Winnie was very happy to be part of her new family. With Forever Hounds Trust being 2018 Burns Pet Charity of the Year Winnie also had a box of delicious food and treats to take …
Rosie the lurcher finds her happy ever after
After spending nine months in the care of Forever Hounds Trust, Rosie the lurcher has landed well and firmly on her paws in the loving home of Dave and Gill. Gill and Dave’s family consisted of three cats, yet Gill felt there was a gap, saying that she always considered herself to be ‘ a …
Farah and Ermine find their Forever Home
Two beautiful greyhounds, Ermine and Farah, have found each other, as well as a loving new home, as a result of the work of a special group of volunteers at Forever Hounds Trust. The two greyhounds came to Forever Hounds Trust, a greyhound and lurcher rescue and re-homing charity, separately. The dogs were both retired …
Summer finds her perfect home with Gerri and Stewart
When Gerri and her husband Stewart saw a greyhound featured in Dogs Today, Forever Hounds Trust told them that she probably wasn’t suitable to live with their other dogs. Fortunately, it wasn’t long before they found one that was…. “At the time, we had two older dogs,” says Gerri. “Gracie, a Staffordshire/Whippet cross was around …
A happy homing for the lovely Merlin
Merlin is Richard and Clare’s second dog from Forever Hounds Trust. He’s only been in his new home a few weeks and he’s already living happily with horses, cats, chickens and pigs! He’s also given their older lurcher, Foyle, a new lease of life. Clare told us how they came to meet Merlin. “Richard and …
“We called her Gladys – because we are so glad she is here”
When Val and Harden lost their eight year old greyhound Doris to cancer in May this year, they barely hesitated before contacting Forever Hounds Trust to see if there was another dog they could adopt. “We came across greyhounds quite by accident,” Val told us. “We’d always had dogs but we loved whippets and when …