Flights - Finding Loving International Greyhounds Homes Together & Salukis

06/23/2024

Some of the FLIGHTS team will be traveling to Ireland in early August. If any of our supporters have any gently used Collars, Leashes, Coats, Toys they would like to donate to the hounds in Ireland please let us know.

06/23/2024

Franky is officially ADOPTED!

06/15/2024

LAST CALL for the request for Foster homes in mid July.

Unfortunately if we don't secure more homes we will have to postpone our July arrivals till August.

If you're interested let us know by contacting us through our website or email, [email protected]

06/10/2024

Let's share the handsome Franky who is available for adoption.

Meet Franky!
This Australian just turned 2, 3 weeks ago and is available for adoption.

Please feel free to share him so he can find his forever home.

Email us at [email protected] to inquire on Franky.

06/09/2024

We have already started our conversation with R2R to bring over more Australians mid July!

We are in need of Foster homes to be able to bring over more Greyhounds.

If you're interested let us know.

06/08/2024

Meet Franky!
This Australian just turned 2, 3 weeks ago and is available for adoption.

Please feel free to share him so he can find his forever home.

Email us at [email protected] to inquire on Franky.

06/07/2024

The FLIGHTS Team has sent off more donations to the Irish Adoption Centre we get many of our Greyhounds from.

If anyone local to us has gentle used items we would be happy to use them in our program or send them off to Ireland.

06/04/2024

Great news! Enya has been adopted and will be living with Dom, another Australian greyhound.

Tim's foster family has decided to adopt him as well.

Best wishes to both families!

06/03/2024

LOVE changing the month on our calendar to see so many of our wonderful hounds in home!

Keep an eye we will start the calendar early this year to make sure they are out the door for u to give friends and family for the holidays.

06/02/2024

☀ Happy National Greyhound Day ☀

We heard its National Greyhound Day in the Uk.
Send us your favourite photos and videos of your greys as we will sharing them throughout the day ❤

05/29/2024

We are proud to have Racing 2 Rehome as our exclusive Aussie partner.

Some of you will be aware of media reports alleging information about staff sackings, unethical behaviour and sub-standard care of greyhounds in the NSW Greyhounds as Pets (GAP) facility run by Greyhound Racing NSW (GRNSW), and these reports mentioned NSW greyhounds being flown to the USA by GRNSW.

Racing2Rehome wishes to clarify that the Victorian Flight Program to North America is managed completely differently to the NSW program.

Racing2Rehome is a rehoming charity that endeavours to find loving pet homes for greyhounds. We are solely focused on the welfare of greyhounds, and there are no target numbers, KPI’s or bonuses for the work we do.

When our vetted North American Rehoming Groups wish to import Aussie greyhounds, a flight is booked for the number of dogs and the date that works best for these volunteer groups – most of which have been rehoming USA greyhounds for 20 to 30 years! Mostly, these volunteers drive to collect our greyhounds from the pet transport company at the airport and the dogs are snoozing in a foster home the same day.

Racing2Rehome ensures that all greyhounds for the flight program are young, confident and healthy. Dogs must be six years or younger, have no ongoing medical issues or past injuries such as broken hocks, be behaviourally tested to be resilient – no anxious or timid dogs are flown. And of course, they are vet checked a minimum of 3 times prior to flying. If any issues or concerns arise, then the dogs are immediately pulled from the flight program, right up to the day they fly. These dogs are then moved into our local Victorian adoption program. The individual greyhound’s welfare is our priority.

There are simply not enough Adoptive homes in Victoria for all the greyhounds that need a couch to snooze on. This is part of the current Rehoming Crisis with all dogs – the Shelters are full!

Racing2Rehome do this work from our hearts - we just want ALL greyhounds to have the chance of a loving pet life!

Pic: Bandit (black) with his friend Karol earlier this month.
Bandit flew to the USA in December 2022. R2R’s Vice President has been hosted by Bandit’s parents in Phoenix and even taken this lively boy out walking. You couldn’t get a more loving family for Bandit and without the R2R Victorian Flight Program, he could still be languishing in kennels – instead of living a fabulous life and barking with a USA accent.

For more information on the USA Flight Program: https://www.racing2rehome.org/usa-rehoming

05/27/2024

05/27/2024

05/24/2024

With only 1 Australian Greyhound available for adoption of the recent arrivals. We are already in the planning stages to bring in another group of retired racers!

If you are interested, don't wait, our Greyhounds move fast... pun intended! 😆 🤣 😂

05/23/2024

Happy 3rd birthday to this Aussie goofball who quickly took over every piece of furniture in the house when he arrived 💙

05/22/2024

We are so excited to share what Alex, Will, Fergus & Fiadh did and are supporting FLIGHTS.

~~ Wanted to share this so anyone near High Park can drop by!

We built it as sustainably as possible, including repurposing a crate and hardware kindly provided by Flights - Finding Loving International Greyhounds Homes Together & Salukis.

So excited to be able to share items we've been collecting with the community, all while supporting FLIGHTS!

05/18/2024

Thank you to all our supporters!

With your help we raised much needed funds for the hounds.

And the winner of the statue is Tanya McMurdo !!!!

05/18/2024

Just a few hours left to get your tickets!!

Greyhound/Galgo Reconstituted Stone Garden Statue

FLIGHTS has experienced some higher than normal veterinarian bills recently and we are looking to host a fundraiser.

This stunning statue is a recumbent greyhound/galgo, large, and amazingly detailed. It has been skillfully cast and will age splendidly. However it should be taken in for the winter months,

The garden statue has a vintage finish
Size, 85cm long
Weight approximately 20Lbs

The event will run from Friday May 10th, at 9:00 AM EST until, Saturday May 18th at 7:00 PM EST.
This is an International event open to everyone with proceeds going to FLIGHTS (Finding Loving International Greyhounds Homes Together & Salukis)
This beautiful item to showcase has been donated in memory of Lois K.
FLIGHTS can delivered within the GTA and surrounding areas, if anyone interested in the Ottawa area, Rufino will be here for Hug for Hounds and can being the statue back to Ottawa as well.
Shipping will be an additional fee.
Please join us in supporting the FLIGHTS program and as part of our celebration of 10 years supporting International Greyhounds.

The following information will help you understand how to participate in this event.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
If you do not wish to purchase a number but would like to help, you may send a donation Etransfers to [email protected]

Tickets are $20.00 Canadian each and are issued randomly.
Payments in Canadian funds may be paid by PayPal (select friends & family option) to [email protected]
Or E-transfer to [email protected]
Please verify the address to ensure it is correct before sending your payment.

As an additional precaution to avoid error, we suggest you copy and paste the address from the above when making your payment.
Please reference FLIGHTS Status Fundraiser in the comments of your payment.

Your payments will be confirmed once received and processed.
We will do our best to confirm your payment as soon as possible but there may be times when we do not have access and it may take longer.
We thank you for your patience

Thank you and best of good luck to all!!

05/17/2024

Everyone is safe and sound and in foster care.

There, they will spend a min of 2 weeks for decompression after such a large trip!