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GALTx eNews: The Gift Is In The Goodbye!

June is National Foster a Pet Month, but foster homes are always one of our scarcest resources. We understand why. Foster families open their homes to a hound that isn't theirs, that often doesn't know how to behave in a house, and that might stay just long enough to steal their hearts. If you adopt you, you help one; however, if you foster you help many. Currently, we have about 30 hounds in boarding, awaiting a foster home. Some of them have been waiting for many months. Please consider helping us move them towards a forever home by becoming a foster family.

Fostering offers unique rewards but also comes with some special requirements:

Foster homes need to be near our vets (or foster families willing to travel to them) in the Dallas/Ft. Worth or Albuquerque areas;

Perspective foster families must complete our on-line foster application;

Foster family pets must meet our veterinarian protocol for foster applicants; and

Foster parents must agree to GALT's terms of fostering in a short agreement.

GALT provides veterinary care for the foster hound as well as basic supplies such as a leash, collar and crate if needed. You provide the loving home, food, soft beds and toys. Read all the details and FAQs in our Foster Manual in advance to make sure fostering is a good fit for you and if you have questions, please email our foster coordinator at [email protected]. When you're ready to help us "help many," take the next step by completing our on line application here.  The gift is in the goodbye when you see your foster hound go home forever with its forever family. You can be a revolving door of love helping hound after hound!

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GALTx eNews: A Shortage Of Greys? No Way!

We hear talk that people perceive a shortage of adoptable retired racing greyhounds. We have a hard time seeing it that way. In addition to all of our available hounds, more than twenty hounds are currently calling GALT's leased kennel a temporary home, and the majority of them are retired racers. 

For example, Dobbler is a young boy who ran about 31 races at Mardi Gras, Gulf and Dubuque before retiring in December 2018 and joining the GALT family. Woodrow (brother to GALT's Giovanna) is a 1.5 year old boy who raced just nine races early this year at Sanford-Orlando. Thriller is a bit more mature at six years old. He has over 100 races under his paws, all at Derby Lane, and he also sired 10 offspring. He definitely earned his happy retirement! These gentleman retired racers and all the other hounds in our kennel share one thing - they need to spend a little time in a foster home to prepare themselves for adoption. 

And that's where we see a real shortage! All of our foster homes are full right now and have been operating at capacity for some time. If you live in the Dallas, Austin or Albuquerque areas and have been thinking about fostering, please take the next step to help these hounds find forever homes. You can reach our fostering team with any questions by email at [email protected] or complete an on line application right here.  

If fostering just isn't for you, please consider a donation to GALT's Help A Hound Fund to help us cover the cost of operating the kennel for these pups until a foster home becomes available.