Greyhound Gap

25/09/2024

When you donate to us here at Greyhound Gap it's not just the now dogs. It's the forever dogs like Storm below who is now 16.5 years old 🥰

Storm was rescued by Greyhound Gap at just 12 months old. She was due to be euthanised in a local stray pound as she had a dry eye condition that nobody was willing to take on.

I knew her previous owners and her history and I can tell you now I've never met a more loving or giving dog than Storm. She hasn't a mean bone in her body and adores everyone and everything.

Storm left the stray pound and we found her the most fantastic home but with inability to insure her eyes and huge costs relating to them we set about covering the cost for life.

£100 a month soon became £200 and it's consistently stayed like that for 15 years.

Just look at her though! A darling darling dog happy and secure after a long and fruitful life of love instead of the fate she faced.

If you are able to consider making a one of donation to us here at Greyhound Gap to support not just the for now dogs but the forever dogs of which there's many we'd be grateful. Surity from a rescue that costs will be covered isn't only the difference between life and death but the difference between a home or kennels.

You can make a one off donation on the link below to Facebook donate.

You can make a one off donation or set up a standing order via any of the other means below....

Bank Transfer to

Greyhound Gap
Account Number 21841468
Sort Code 30-99-08

PayPal to [email protected]

Or via Just Giving on the link below

https://www.justgiving.com/greyhoundgap

The team and I know if she could Storm want to thank who has ensured she had her life and didn't just become another nameless euthanasia statistic.

30/07/2024

This Sunday and the weather's looking good. We look forward to seeing you all, having fun and raising funds to for the dogs in our care.

10 fun classes
Have a go agility
Fastest recall
Sausage Bobbing
Cool in the pool

Meet a princess
Kids zone the more you play the better the prizes
Face Painting

Dog, kids, adults and bottle tombola's all prize every time
Crafts
Cakes
Dog related merchandise

Plus much much more

Something for all the family

All breeds welcome.
No registration just pay in the ring as you enter each class.
We look forward to seeing you on the day.

28/07/2024

09/07/2024

Fancy something different? Saturday 27th July why not join us in the beautiful New Mills for a dog walk and a drink.

The Brewery is strictly over 18s.

TORRSIDE BREWING
NEW MILLS MARINA
HIGH PEAK
SK22 3JJ

Greyhound Gap will be holding a circular dog walk commencing at 11am from the Brewery having us back by 12 Noon. It will be £1 per human and dog donation.

On return to the brewery we will have our fabulous fundraising stalls inside with doggy and human lucky dips, Tombolas and our stunning hand made collars and other merchandise.

Epic Pizza will be there all day serving fabulous food plus 15 draught beers, ciders, snacks and more.

WHY NOT TRY A PINT OF LONGBOI WITH ALL PROCEEDS TO GREYHOUND GAP?

Below are a couple of maps of parking near the brewery.

The brewery is inside New Mills Marina (green on maps), which is resident parking only.

The nearest car park is at Newtown station. This is reasonably priced pay-and-display.

There is also free on-street parking in the local area. You can park on any of the roads marked in red.

The walk will leave the brewery and head to Torr Vale Mill, then over the Millennium Bridge, through the Torrs, and along the river to Goytside Meadows.

15/06/2024

Next Sunday 23rd June. Is it in your diary?

Our next event and this is one of our bigger and more popular shows. Back in the glorious Staffordshire Moorlands Countryside. The beautiful Pavillion in Oakamoor.

Food, cafe, bar, toilets, tons of parking and hopefully fastest recall will be back, along with sausage bobbing and 10 full classes.

Cake Stall, our merchandise and our stunning hand crafted collars, crafts stalls, 2nd hand and donated dog items at bargain prices, bric a brac, bottle, dog, children's and adults fun tombola all a prize every time, doggy, kids and jewellery and accessories lucky dips. If the weather's good we will also have the much loved cool in the pool. Plus much, much more.....

Plenty to do for all the family and a wonderful day out.

13/06/2024

HELP! WE ARE NEARLY OUT OF TEDDIES HERE AT GREYHOUND GAP AND WE DONT WANT DISAPPOINTED CHILDREN. Please if you are local to us also share!

Are you in or around Stoke on Trent and have teddies in new or good used condition you can donate for our prize every time children's tombola?
So far I've washed and dried over 2000 this show season but we are back down to less than 100. The teddies raise us a huge amount of money to help us keep helping the dogs.

Please if you are having a sort out or have children who may want to sort a few to help our dogs we'd be grateful.

They can be dropped 7 days a week between 10am and 3pm to the kennels

Grindlestone Kennels
Cobmoor Road
Kidsgrove
Stoke-on-Trent
ST7 3PZ

Thank you all so much in advance. We have so many events coming up we need them for.

06/05/2024

This coming Thursday Karen and Helen two of our main volunteers undertake the notorious Mow Cop Killer Mile on our behalf and its not called the Killer Mile for nothing
Seriously this is no mean feat. Athletes from all over come to undertake this.
The main segment gradient is not to be sniffed at for sure and even walking it is a killer. Below are the stats....

Distance 0.9 miles
Average Gradient: 11.7%
Maximum gradient: 23%
Elevation gain: 170 metres (560 feet)

They are aiming for a £500 and I'm sure would be grateful of your support towards their target.
This isn't a fundraiser most would want to attempt and I'm sure you will join me in wishing them both the best of luck.

You can donate on their Just Giving page below

https://www.justgiving.com/page/karen-and-helen-gap-1714848682912?utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=page%2Fkaren-and-helen-gap-1714848682912&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=pfp-share

Via PayPal to [email protected]

Bank Transfer to
Greyhound Gap
Account Number 21841468
Sort Code 30-99-08

Please mark bank and PayPal donations Killer Mile if you are able

Or via Facebook donate below

06/05/2024

What a busy week we've had at Greyhound Gap.
6 dogs heading to new forever homes and 2 long term difficult dogs heading to permanent foster. 8 dogs out in total.
Unfortunately we have some stressful and exciting news in equal measure! For now those 8 won't be replaced with new intakes and we need to find homes for a few more before more dogs can start to free flow in again.
Next month we start a block refurbishment and the work in total could take 6 months or maybe more to complete.
The building which currently safely holds 11 dogs needs completely gutting and stripping out. Floors dug out to level, ceilings dropped and replaced and new floors and walls insulating. Once that is done we then have to bring in a kennels team to design, make and install new kennels. Then electricians then floorers.
This won't be a quick process and everyone will have their own lead times.
Sadly that means capacity during that time needs to be reduced by 11 dogs. Once done the block should hold up to potentially 16. That means we come back better. The hopes are it will become a new Greyhound block meaning the main blocks can capacitate the lurchers.
As you can imagine it will also be a costly process and we need to work on financing each aspect of it as we progress.
For us now as a team it's non negotiable. The block was an old block when we came in and its heading towards in our eyes not being fit for purpose or certainly will be in a few months. So we either close it permanently or we close it for now and have a shed load of stress potentially up to and possibly over £100,000 worth of stress and find a way through.

Keep everything crossed we make this happen and we look forward to coming out the other side

Oh yeah and if anyone has shed loads of money lying around to help us with the project please feel free to speak up 😄 We do have some funding in place but could potentially have to find around another 50k to complete.

06/05/2024

Join us today in saying happy 2nd Birthday to this lovely little rabble.
On 6th May 2022 at 12 noon exactly Dot threw up, pooed herself and less than elegantly slat because there's no other word to describe it the first of her beautiful babies out. At the time a film crew had literally just pulled up as we were finalists in the Petplan Animal Charity Team of the year. To this day I feel so sorry for those people as they may as well have tried to talk to a brick wall. The team literally only had one thing they all wanted to concentrate on! Getting Dot and her dashes through it safely.
The next 19 hours were the most stressful in the rescues history to date yet I still swear.
7 alive puppies and 4 that had sadly perished inside her due to landing with us at 7 weeks pregnant with a body score of zero.
8 hours of whelping followed by another 11 at the vets trying to help her to pass more then the realisation that the last sadly passed Puppy wouldn't come as she had a tilted uterus and a c section followed.
It wasn't an easy rearing with a bloody headed Mum who wasn't in the best health and needed help. She didn't think she did though 🤣 7 weeks of bedlam followed including 10k in costs all in to get them all through healthy and alive but between us, the vets and Dots bloody headed determination we did it.

Kilo, Juliet, Morse, Charlie, Echo, Delta and Dash owe their life not only to the skilled team here but our skilled vets and everyone who supported us financially through their time and care here at Greyhound Gap

Please tip your tea or coffee and wish them the happiest of all Birthdays.

Juliet aka Ruby is sadly back in our care seeking a new home but we will make sure she has a special treat later. She slept with us last night so did have Happy Birthday sang at her at midnight 😄

05/05/2024

Our 2nd rehoming of the day. Our beautiful Eileen has just headed off to Leeds to join Andrea, Darren and family and a new furry brother Copper. Sadly they recently lost their Greyhound Gap girl Tilly and Copper isn't coping all that well without a friend.
Be happy Princess.

05/05/2024

5 weeks ago a broken little dog walked into our home and heart. Missing a foot with rotting flesh and weak with infection. Nothing but bare bone where her ankle use to be right up to her hip. Ripped ears, infected skin and just tired of life but still with so much fire in her belly and the will to live.
5 weeks later.... amputated, spayed and healed both mentally and physically we've just left her with Sarah and Albie a Springer Spaniel brother in her new home.
A greyhound? A lurcher? No. However, a little dog at risk of death taken into our own vets and as always we were their first port of call. We weren't about to say we can't help when we knew we could.
Thank you all so much for your support and for following Charms journey with us. When you donate to us to help us achieve these results you are as much a part of that success as our team.

Huge thank you has to go to Nantwich Pets Vets team too. Their critical care and expertise are the reason also we get to tell her story today.

Be happy little lady. You've been an absolute pleasure and we will miss you dearly.

01/05/2024

Please, please keep those good thoughts coming for Ruby! An update from the vets having been hit with really high dose antibiotics and fluids she seems at the moment to be turning a corner. She's regulating her temperature now. Obviously the kidney damage that has progressed quickly from the last scan two weeks ago is done and can't be reversed and we can't rule out kidney cancer but we can still hope it may be a chronic Pyelonephritis.

Thank you so much to everyone who has made a donation so far. She's still in the vets at the moment and has a little way to go before we can bring her back.

We've had the vets bill today from the veterinary hospital and as you can see we are already at over £1300 for her treatment. With our full bill there for the month being £4000.

On top of that we've had our other vets bill today also and that is another £2300

That's £6300 again for April for just our 2 main vets we do use others also 🙈

You can donate to help us cover yet another huge months costs via

PayPal to [email protected]

Bank Transfer to
Greyhound Gap
Account Number 21841468
Sort Code 30-99-08

Or via Facebook donate below.

As always thank you for your support and keep those good thoughts coming at least for now they seem to be working!