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| Our Vision How to help Contact details  We are dedicated to finding the very best forever homes for retired racing greyhounds. We provide ongoing support and encouragement to all of our placement families and hounds. |
Kerry
Greyhound Connection
was set up by Amanda Saunders Perkins in 2002 after realising the sad
fate awaiting most of these dogs when they retired from racing. This
includes destruction, abandonment or being shipped to Spain where they
are kept in atrocious conditions and some raced with terrible injuries.
Many are inhumanely killed, often by being hung from trees, or
abandoned to die of starvation. Kerry
Greyhound Connection is a small voluntary organisation based in County
Kerry, Ireland and in Norfolk, England. We take in, rehabilitate and find homes for unwanted Irish racing greyhounds. We also work to educate the public, and people involved in the Irish racing industry, that greyhounds make great pets. We do this by promoting the many good qualities of greyhounds as family pets and by working to dispel the misconceptions about greyhounds. Often people do not realise greyhounds are great with children, that many can live happily with cats and other small animals, and that they are in fact couch potatoes who do not need a lot of exercise. We aim to encourage the racing industry and governments to improve conditions for these dogs, to reduce the amount of greyhounds which are destroyed and stop the export of these dogs to Spain. We also want to encourage the racing industry and governments, particularly in Ireland, to improve conditions for greyhounds, to develop more facilities and organisations to re-home more dogs, to introduce some controls on breeding in order to reduce the number of greyhounds which are bred, and to reduce the number which are destroyed, and stop the export of greyhounds to Spain. There are some small signs of progress in Ireland but there remains a very long way to go both with education and welfare. We look after approximately 35 greyhounds at any one time, in Ireland and the UK. They are kept in private boarding kennels in Ireland where we rent spaces, or fostered in volunteers homes until they can be adopted into kind homes. We neuter and vaccinate each dog and give them a veterinary check before they are re-homed. We assess the suitability of home offers and we have re-homed greyhounds in Southern and Northern Ireland, the UK, Europe and the USA. We organise the transport for the greyhounds to be taken to their new homes. We rely on public donations to enable us to carry out our work and in Ireland we also receive some financial assistance from the Irish Greyhound Board. |
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| Kerry Greyhound Connection Ireland operates through a network of volunteers to rehome greyhounds in Ireland, the UK and Europe |
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