Greyhound Passport To Retirement : Entry Page

Welcome to Greyhound Passport To Retirement. We are a small group of volunteers dedicated to finding loving homes for ex-racing greyhounds.

We operate and seek homes in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Gloucestershire
We would love to hear from you if you can offer a home to one of these gorgeous animals or if you would like to help us in our work in some way.

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The caption page of the Features section creates affectionate grins in many of the site's viewers. Take a look at last month's picture and captions. We would welcome your contribution - the more captions the more and bigger the grins! Come on; send your snappy one liner for this month's picture to the

A gentle Appeal for Help

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Ladies and Gentlemen,
If you are looking at this site then it is likely that you are interested in the welfare of retired and otherwise rescued greyhounds. Our small band of volunteers do need a bit of help for our work. There are several ways in which you could help and quite a few won't require you to over exert yourself or run around the country - we would like to have you as someone valuable in the background.

Would you like to be a ‘HOME HELPER’ for Greyhound Passport to Retirement?

Interested?

Then here is what you can do from home :

Collect unwanted gifts for us to use as tombola prizes and/or sale at fund raising events (after Christmas is a good time for this).
Make some small items for resale.
Collect good bric-a-brac - we will even arrange for collection.
Make cakes for sale at events (please remember to indicate ingredients used).
Gardeners : pot some cuttings and/or grow some extra seedlings for us to sell. (Please label plants).
A coffee morning, or evening, possibly with a bring-and-buy table.
Donate a book of stamps or a packet of envelopes to help with our running costs.
Buy a tube of Smarties, eat the contents (told you that it would be easy!), and then fill the tube with 20p coins and donate it to us.
Start a ‘Bronze Collection'; collect all those 1p and 2p coins and when your container is full, let us have them - we’ll do the counting!

What to do now :

Please contact Chris on 01793 541997, leave your name and phone number together with the project you are interested in and contact will be made with you.

Donations are very welcome and sponsorship to help us in our work would be greatly appreciated.
If you wish to help please contact us.

THANK YOU FOR READING THIS APPEAL

In the site :

• See the Greyhound FAQ page for information about greyhounds and the essentials of adopting and looking after one.

• Adopt a greyhound has information about how we proceed with a view to placing a dog in your life.

• Looking for a Home displays dogs for whom we are actively, sometimes urgently, looking for an adoptive home. Really urgent cases are also featured here in this entry page.

• Features is a collection of pages that feature greyhounds in one way or another; some reflect our work (and play) with the dogs, others are for general information - or just for fun. Especially for fun is the section It's a Dog's Life; have a look and have a go at the caption competition.

If you would like to contribute to the site content, particularly with a Features item or picture(s)and story of a dog that you have adopted via GPTR, please contact the

The bond that forms between human and dog is very strong and when it is broken it is understandable for us to grieve. We have introduced an In Memoriam section to provide a recognition of and opportunity to express that grief. If you provided a caring retirement for a rescued greyhound that has now passed on and would like to pay a tribute to your erstwhile companion we would welcome your contribution to our site.

Advance notice of events:

A gentle Appeal for Help

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