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See the Events Calendar for our monthly Meet and Greet events and for more details on the special events below. 9/12 Crescenta Canada Pet Hospital Dog Party 9/19 Best Friends Animal Society "Strut Your Mutt" Walk 10/16 GreySave Fall Social Search GreySave Support GreySave when you shop at Amazon by clicking below. How this works. (866) Grey-Save 866-473-9728 |
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February 2007 GreySave Scoop About GreySave Scoop Monthly – GreySave Home Coming News –
On January 30th we retrieved a very pretty and unique blue fawn girl from the East Valley Shelter. She had been found running loose in the hills of the San Fernando Valley. She has since been to the vet, spay and all checked out medically. She is a very sweet girl that was obviously someone’s pet, somewhat spoiled and slightly overweight. Her color and behavior is pure greyhound but she may have a bit of other sight hound in her heritage. Check out our website for more information and a picture of Phantom. While you are there check out the GreySave Adoptable Greyhounds website page to see and read about the most current group of greyhounds and visit our new Adopted Greyhound page to see if one of these new adopted greyhounds lives near you. GreySave Adoption News –
Meet & Greet News – Solvang -- Fundraising Opportunity: Edgar’s Big Adventure -- Suddenly one of the cars stopped near him and a nice lady offered him a ride. Never one to turn down a ride, Edgar hopped in. The lady checked his collar for tags, but he didn't have any, so she took him to a nearby veterinary clinic. There a tech waved some kind of magic wand all over him, then shook his head with a disappointed look. After looking in his ears and writing something down, he took him out back and put him in a kennel. A kennel! Edgar hadn't been in a kennel for more years than he could remember, and at this point he was beginning to feel that something had gone terribly wrong, that the rabbit hole had closed behind him and left him in this very different world. But already phone lines were buzzing and emails were flying through cyberspace as dedicated greyhound rescue volunteers attempted to identify this handsome brindle boy by the litter number and birth date tattooed in his ears, and determine who his owner was. Before long he was taken out of the kennel and back to the office, where a lady he had never seen before was waiting. She led him outside to her SUV and he was soon off for another ride. Wherever she was taking him had to be better than a kennel. After a nervous ride, with cars going everywhere, they arrived at her house, and upon entering who should greet him but five greyhounds and a beagle, all eager to sniff him. Edgar hadn't seen so many greyhounds in one place since his racing days. They were all friendly, and there were plenty of stuffed toys to fling about and cow hooves to gnaw on -- Edgar was beginning to think he had won a vacation to greyhound Club Med. That evening was fun, hanging out with his new friends and lounging on oversized pads, but after a while he started to realize that nice as this was, it wasn't home, and he started to miss his own bed and his best friend, Zoe. While he slept, his very worried dog sitter was combing the neighborhood for him, and late that night when he had searched everywhere he could think of, a flyer reading "Found Greyhound" caught his eye. It was one of many put up that afternoon by a volunteer who lived in the local area. Brindle male -- it had to be Edgar! It was 11:30, but he dialed the 866 number, fingers crossed. The next morning Edgar's new mom got up early and checked her email. She knew that a dog as nice and well cared-for as Edgar had to be somebody's special pet and that his owners must be very worried, although she wished they had put an I.D. tag on his collar. But sure enough, there in her inbox was an email from the volunteer who monitored the 866 number -- the search was over. A few quick phone calls and she was in contact with the dog sitter. He couldn't come over till mid-morning, so Edgar enjoyed a long walk and a nice breakfast. But when the grateful dog sitter arrived, Edgar was more than happy to bid farewell to his hosts. It had been a fun adventure, but he was ready to go home. He was a very lucky dog -- without the quick action of the lady who first picked him up and the dedicated efforts of numerous volunteers, Edgar's big adventure could have had a very different ending.
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Just
before Christmas, May, a 6-year-old greyhound tuxedo girl came to
us as a bounce after a death in her adopted family. May is a very
pretty black greyhound girl with a white and graying face. She is
now back in her original foster home happy and physically bouncing
back to health. May loves to play, sleep in the sun and hang out
with the hounds. She is now looking for a new and very special mom
or dad. May is cat and kitten safe! If you know someone looking
for a beautiful, somewhat older grey girl contact us at info@GreySave.com.
For more information and a recent picture of May, check out our
website.
As
for the other precious puppy, Maverick, he is up Lompoc at a winery
waiting for his future mom and dad to get home from vacation so
they can adopt him. When they do, he will start his new life with
his “big” greyhound brother Andy, starting basic agility
classes and then training to be a therapy dog. Yes, you must keep
the puppy BUSY! Maverick will also be the greyhound spokesman for
the Santa Barbara area and will probably convince everyone that
greyhounds are wonderful but greyhound puppies are just plain BUSY!