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It’s Black Dog Day, a day that encourages the adoption of black dogs, so let’s take a moment to appreciate the elegance, grace, and unique beauty of black sighthounds. 🖤 Despite this, sadly these gorgeous hounds are less likely to be adopted for no other reason than their colouring. Regardless of behaviour, size, breeding, personality, …

Every dog that comes into our care undergoes an assessment, where we learn all about them to enable us to match them to a suitable home – not every dog will fit every home. When matched and we start our discussions with potential adopters, we are honest and upfront about any challenges they may face …

Do you know a non-sighthound dog who’d be happy to volunteer their time, helping rescue sighthounds on their way to life as a much-loved pet? Socialisation with non-sighthound dogs (especially smaller breeds) is a huge part of the rehabilitation work we carry out with the dogs in our care. Many of the dogs we help …

A huge thank you to everyone who purchased tickets in our summer raffle. The draw has now been made, and we are delighted to announce the lucky winners. 1st Prize – £150 – Sue Prior 2nd Prize – £100 – Lorraine Besent 3rd Prize – £75 – Janet Bud Husiam 4th Prize – £50 – …

It’s National Fitness Day, the biggest physical activity celebration of the year. This years theme is “Your Health is For Life”, to encourage people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds to recognise and celebrate the life-long physical and mental benefits of being active. “Dog owners enjoy numerous health and social benefits by walking their dog …

The story of Hooley so far… Hooley entered our lives in August of this year after we lost our lurcher to an illness. But I think that I better start at the beginning of this saga. We, my wife and I have always had rescue dogs and up until August 2023 we had two lurchers, …

🚨 Today is Emergency Services Day. 🚨 Emergency Services Day (also known as 999 Day) is a national day across the UK. 999 Day is your chance to support the heroic men and women of the NHS and emergency services. Volunteers are an essential part of the emergency services family, and they play a core …

It’s International Day of Charity, a day to celebrate the wonderful work charities around the world do. As you all know, we rescue, rehabilitate and rehome greyhounds and lurchers, but do you know what that involves? All of this isn’t cheap as you can well imagine, so we rely on funds from individual supporters, voluntary …

In May, facing pressures raising sufficient income, we made the difficult decision to reduce our operations from two locations down to one. We decided to move dogs away from our Devon Centre and to focus on our rented kennel spaces in Somerset. Since taking that decision we have transferred the hounds that have not yet …

The penultimate leg of our Welsh Volunteers Offa’s Dyke challenge took place last weekend! The team have already covered 158 miles of the trail, and have one last celebratory weekend planned at the end of September to complete the route! Despite their amazing efforts, they are still quite short of their target. PLEASE consider giving …

It’s National Nonprofit Day (NND) – the day to recognise the powerful impact non-profits all over the world have on improving the lives of millions across various communities – for us it’s improving the lives of greyhounds and lurchers that need us. 🐾 Like many charities, we can’t do that without the wonderful generosity of …

It’s International Day of Friendship, and what better day to share this update. George was one of our Spring appeal pups, who was sadly abandoned with his mother Cherry and siblings in a car park; you can read their story here. Now look at him; his days of hardship are well behind him, and since …