Fostering
Our hounds are kept in the homes of our foster families in the time interval between retirement and the time they go into their adoptive homes. American Greyhound provides all veterinary care and medication, a crate for your foster hound, and any special things he or she may need. The fosters provide them with food, a roof over their heads and lots of love and attention. It is a tremendous way to make a huge difference in the life of a greyhound.
Adoption
Obviously, the ultimate goal of American Greyhound is to find our hounds a wonderful home to live out their lives as a pet. Greyhounds make wonderful family pets. They are surprisingly low energy dogs who are happy to lounge around the house for hours on end. That being said, they are likewise always ready for a walk or a run around the back yard.
Our adoption coordinators are on stand-by, waiting for your adoption application, to unite you with the next “love of your life”. They will help you through each step of the adoption process and help you select the perfect hound for your home.
Check out our available dogs to see if a sight-hounds might be the next addition to your home and family
Transportation
American Greyhound is often in need of help moving hounds. It may be a trip to the vet, to meet a potential adopter, or a trip to O’Hare to welcome incoming galgos.
For most local transports, the dogs can be moved in personal vehicles. This would involve getting dogs to the vet or out to an adoption program when the foster home is unable to bring the dog.
As we are beginning to see, there are a great number of lurchers ending up in local shelters and humane organizations. We sometimes need help getting these dogs from where they are to where we are. Most of these dogs are coming from Western Ohio and Eastern Indiana, but they can be located just about anywhere.
For the longer hauls, we employ our own custom greyhound hauling trailer. We are in need of people who are willing to drive our van and pull the trailer on the hauls. We’d like to have at least four drivers available for the longer hauls, and two drivers on the shorter ones These trips usually take in excess of 30-36 hours and are very demanding, but are worth every bit of the effort when we unload the dogs and deliver them to their new foster homes.
Adoption events
When we hold adoption events, we can always use help with the adoptable hounds: walking them, talking with people about them, and a number of other things to help promote sighthounds as pets.
Auction
Our annual auction, “Winning Hearts, Not Races” started in 2010, has become our largest single fund raising event. Every year we hold our auction at the Avalon Manor, in Merrillville, Indiana. Our evening starts with a huge silent auction, then we are seated for a delicious meal and an exciting live auction. Included with your ticket is an open bar and champagne fountain for those 21+. The entire evening is extremely entertaining and enjoyable. The auction has raised the funds necessary to make an ever greater difference in the lives of these wonderful dogs, and our goals are set to continue this success.
To make this event come off as well as it has, we are in need of people who would like to participate with the auction committee. The basic tasks are acquisition of auction items, soliciting sponsorships, and promoting attendance. While these may seem daunting tasks, the support we receive from the auction company makes everything much easier than would be expected. Everything about the auction is done in a first class way, and almost no one leaves without a smile on their faces.
Miscellaneous Fund Raising
There are quite likely a number of other fundraising activities that we have not yet explored. If you have some experience with fundraising, please let us know. We are open to almost anything, as long as it has the potential to be a successful undertaking.
Miscellaneous
There are many things we can use help with that haven’t been listed here. If you have some skill sets that we haven’t touched on, please let us know your skills/interests, and we will find a task that will fit you.
We appreciate your interest in American Greyhound and helping to improve the future for greyhounds. We know that the more people we include in our operations, the more success we will see, and ultimately, the more hounds whose life we can change.
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