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[Macha]

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two whippet/collie crosses, black and white, at rescues, advertised on freead sites:

Glen Rescue Centre, Co Roscommon

Flash a handsome and very fast whippet x collie lurcher.

One year old and looking for a special home for a few months now, needs a special home who can give lots and lots of excercise and training. "I am a real athlete and very smart, I need a really dedicated kind of owner to put all my talents to use."

http://www.donedeal.co.uk/for-sale/dogs/2449078

7th Heaven, N Ireland

Bobbie, a 4.5year old collie/whippet cross. Extremely loving and good natured. Great with kids. Loves the out doors and playing with other dogs. Unfortunately the owner is ill and can't look after her now. Could you give her a new home?

http://www.gumtree.com/p/pets/bobbie-femal...d-home/88518128

For this or other dogs / cats check out the website http://www.7thheaven.org.uk

dogs in pounds (in urgent need of home or foster or rescue space)

Downpatrick pound, Northern Ireland

Corran Kennels Rehoming Centre.

Telephone: 028 44851426 or 07909923760 (Mobile preferred)

Website: http://www.corrankennelsandrehomingcentre.co.uk/default.html

Whippet type puppy, dark brindle male. Friendly little puppy approx. 8 weeks old.

[among other dogs at this pound are a nice border collie with some training and what looks like a purebred Dogue de Bordeaux (big!)]

also at Downpatrick, listed on NIAR forum 14 Sept.: Sky "is a young female lurcher who needs lots of TLC." smoothhaired, appears in photo to be light fawn or fawn and white, medium sized

http://z6.invisionfree.com/Northern_Irelan...?showtopic=7922

(need to register to view this Northern Ireland Animal Rescue webforum)

Dunboyne pound,near Dublin

Name: Hector

Sex: male

Kennel number: 6, Dunboyne Pound

Stray Picked up: 21/9/11

Needs out: Tuesday 27th September

"Hector was very playful when he was brought in, but beginning to get a little restless now. He is quite thin, even for a lurcher, but nothing wrong with his appetite! He was picked up near a halting site. If you can help him please post, pm or call Martina on 086 3871498."

VERY handsome brindle dog looks very like a pure saluki though I suppose he's a crossbred saluki

picture posted at:

http://petsireland.invisionzone.com/index....c=79768&hl=

Name: Harley

Sex: male

Kennel number: 7, Dunboyne Pound

Stray Picked up:21/9/11

Needs out: Tuesday 27th September

brindle shorthaired lurcher picked up a halting site, very affectionate

contact Martina as above, country code for Ireland is +353

photo at http://petsireland.invisionzone.com/index....c=79769&hl=

more dogs in rescues

another Harley is not in the pound, is safe, but needs a home.Ten month old brindle smooth-coated, good with both humans and dogs.

http://petsireland.invisionzone.com/index....c=79688&hl=

or look up the Sighthound Strolls website www.sighthound-strolls.proboards.com

Whippets / whippet types Robbie, Minnie, Roxy still advertised on http://www.irishanimals.ie/adoptagreyhound.html

Pancake is a more recent addition, very affectionate female whippet cross

(lurchers Coco, Mr Neeson, Gwen,Honey and greyhound Sofi are also on this page for too long)

Norman and Neville - two young male lurchers at "A Dog's Life" near Dublin

www.adogslife.ie

http://www.adogslife.ie/index.php?option=c...icle&id=215 (Norman) brindle smoothcoated, described at http://irishanimals.ie as "tiny"

http://www.adogslife.ie/index.php?option=c...&Itemid=227 (Neville) white with fawn, short fluffy-looking coat

Timon- lurcher at Dundalk dogs

http://dundalkdogrescue.webs.com/dogsinourcare.htm

FUNDING TO RESCUE DOGS FROM POUNDS:

A Dog's Life rescues dogs from Dunboyne pound and you can send paypal donations for Dunboyne Dogs to roche_martinaATyahoo.co.uk (Just replace AT with @ , the substitution helps block automated spamming)

Dundalk Dogs rescues dogs from Dundalk pound (Irish) charity no. CHY19337

if you wish to donate Dundalk dogs: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr

 

[Macha]

the gorgeous Hector, the brindle saluki type who was at Dunboyne pound last month, has got a secure rescue place, I hear, with Greyhound Rescue West of England http://www.grwe.com

Sad news for anyone in Ireland who would want to adopt him, good news for someone in England or Wales, and probably offers Hector the best chance of finding a good longterm home.

Another absolutely charming lurcher has landed in Dunboyne: Jack lovely black and tan with white markings, looks young, loves people

http://petsireland.invisionzone.com/index....showtopic=79852

There is also a pretty blue lurcher at Craigavon pound, Co Armagh, N Ireland -- looks like a petite greyhound (but bigger than a whippet). also a medium sized black with white male. I

don't think Craigavon has anyone who works hard like Martina to see that many of the dogs do leave the pound for a better life (too many of our pound dogs get killed instead)

http://www.craigavon.gov.uk/environment/en...og-control.html

Ref 2264, Lurcher, Female, William Street, Lurgan, date taken to kennels 5/10/11, date rehoming can take place from 11/10/11

Ref No: 2267, Lurcher dog, Tarry Drive Lurgan, date taken to kennels 6/10/11, date rehoming can take place from 12/10/11

 

[Macha]

URGENT

CO ARMAGH

I don't know the fates of the dogs who were previously in Craigavon pound. There is now an attractively coloured brindle lurcher, looks quite small in the photo, maybe whippet cross (looks stockier to me than a pure whippet), at Craigavon

Ref No 2310, Lurcher Male, Lurgan, date taken to kennels 25/10/11, date rehoming can take place from 31/10/11

CO DUBLIN (dog microchipped to uncontactable Belfast owners)

http://petsireland.invisionzone.com/index....c=79934&hl=

in Dunboy pound stocky fawn male smoothhaired lurcher

Picked up: Greenfort Est. Clondalkin, Co Dublin

In: 26/10/11 Needs out: Wednesday 2nd November

"Maddox is a quiet boy who seems resigned to being in the pound. He is microchipped with a number in Belfast but so far the pound have not been able to contact his owners. If you can help him please post, pm or call Martina on 086 3871498." (country code for phoning republic of Ireland nos is 353)

CO WICKLOW

tall greyhound type lurcher found in Bray. Apparently Wicklow pound has a high 'destruction' rate so someone has stepped in to keep the dog this weekend to keep him from going to the pound. I hope she will write about the dog's personality (not that it can be fully assessed in such a short time as dogs take time to come out of their shells). I stress that this is an emergency foster and a longer term foster home or rescue place is needed.

http://petsireland.invisionzone.com/index....mp;#entry603634

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SOME DOGS IN RESCUE/REHOMING CENTRES

DUBLIN

Declan 3 mo old male lurcher pup

Robin 18 mo female saluki type

Mouse 7 mo old female lurcher, small but longer hair than a whippet

http://www.dogsaid.ie/

LIMERICK seems to get more of its fair share of dogs in terrible condition which have to be nursed back to health before they can be rehomed

currently 4 shortcoated lurchers on the rehoming page at http://www.limerickanimalwelfare.ie/

MAYO

small fawn & white hairy lurcher , lots of collies

http://www.mayospca.com/index.php/homes-needed-for-animals

Counties ANTRIM & DOWN, N IRELAND

Benjamin,4-5 year old whippet, friendly good behaviour

http://www.7thheaven.org.uk/dogsneedingahome.htm

a pair of 6 year old whippets to be rehomed together, one male one female, available soon

http://www.collooneykennels.co.uk/Rescue.html

Co DERRY, N IRELAND

two black with white lurchers Lorka, female & Larry male

http://www.rainbowrehoming.com/adopt/dogs_line1.htm

 

[Macha]

Carrickfergus pound in N Ireland is one of the better ones, but they do get overcrowded sometimes so can't keep all the dogs alive if rescue places or homes aren't found. The pound has a lot of sighthounds needing homes or rescue places at present. The lurchers are all shorthaired.

BS 10/6 - FEMALE LURCHER - APPROX 1 YEAR OLD - DATE IN 04/10/11 white and black

BS10/56 FEMALE WHIPPET- 3-4YRS 1N 19/10/11 brindle and white

BS 9/16 - FEMALE LURCHER APPROX 2 YEARS OF AGE - DATE IN 06/09/11 black with white

BS 9/46 - MALE LURCHER X - APPROX 1-2 YEARS OF AGE - DATE IN 18/09/11 black and white

BS 10/18 - MALE GREYHOUND - APPROX 4-5 YEARS OF AGE - DATE IN 08/10/11 mostly white

BS10/57 GREYHOUND APPROX 2YRS FEMALE IN 21/10/11 brindle

BS10/36 FEMALE GREYHOUND 3-4 YRS mostly black

FUW/10/8 GREYHOUND MALE 5YRS "BRYN" IN 19/10/11 brindle

photographs at Northern Ireland Animal Rescue website (you have to register and login) http://z6.invisionfree.com/Northern_Ireland_K9

For further information please contact:

Dog Pound

Telephone: 028 9335 1639

E-Mail: dogpound@carrickfergus.org

Web: www.carrickfergus.org (no details of dogs on site)

The times open to the public are -

11am to 12.30 pm and 2pm to 4pm (Monday to Friday)

11 am to 12 noon (Saturday)

 

[Macha]

two new ones at Carrickfergus

Ref CFS10/4 Blue/white chest Greyhound (Female)

Ref BS 10/31 Fawn Grehound (male) approx 3-4 years old

note, the one described as a whippet (see previous message) does look like a true whippet in her photo

http://www.irishanimals.ie/adoptagreyhound.html

all on this page are sighthounds, at the moment at least 4 of the dogs listed are whippets or whippet-crosses

These dogs are in safer keeping than dogs in pounds

 

[Macha]

NIAR lists a black male whippet ~8 mos old, housetrained, at Downpatrick pound, Northern Ireland 22 Nov. This dog isn't featured at the Corran Kennels website, but if you are interested in adopting or fostering this dog you can enquire directly to Corran Kennels. See their website for details: http://www.corrankennelsandrehomingcentre.co.uk/default.html

A female brindle lurcher came into Derry City Council pound, Pennyburn, this week. In the photo she looks like a whippet but I'm told she is much larger than a whippet. I don't live far from this pound. The rep of Rainbow Rescue and Rehoming who came to pick up my foster collies, bound for a Staffordshire rescue, told me the lurcher is a nice dog. Well, if anybody trustworthy tells me they would definitely have her and can arrange transport, I would be willing to have her for short-term rescue from next Tues (Monday in a pinch). She is a surrender, so please contact the pound and Rainbow to reserve her. At least one of the wardens, Malachy, has been helpful in keeping dogs a bit longer when guaranteed someone is coming for them shortly. I can't do an open-ended foster; I need to know there will be a place for the lurcher to go to.

picture of the Derry lurcher near the bottom of this page: http://www.rainbowrehoming.com/adopt/dogs_line1.htm

Rainbow is taking 19 canines across to rescues in England this weekend, but they can't afford the £s or the human-power to organise transports very frequently.

Rainbow home page: http://www.rainbowrehoming.com/index.html

 

[Macha]

Ben the young black male whippetx listed above is now with whippet rescue in co Down http://www.collooneykennels.co.uk/Rescue.html

The aforementioned stocky smooth coated brindle female lurcher from Derry pound is now at Rainbow rescue and is called Zara. They also have a young fawn male lurcher Rusty. http://www.rainbowrehoming.com/adopt/dogs_line1.htm

there are 3 greyhounds, 1 male, 2 female at Coleraine dog pound, Northern Ireland

http://coleraineonline.tascomi.com/kennels/

there was a handsome black greyhound-type lurcher at Craigavon pound but I heard someone has got him out safe; hope this info is correct

http://www.craigavon.gov.uk/environment/en...og-control.html ref 2352

In the republic of Ireland, there is a litter of nicely coloured smooth-coated lurcher pups in Wexford, see http://www.lasthope.ie/?page_id=28 for photos and phone no

Tasha and Seamus, broken-coated lurchers, still looking for homes. They are in Mayo:

http://www.mayospca.com/index.php/homes-needed-for-animals

other useful websites for finding Irish sighthounds in need of homes are http://www.irishanimals.ie , http://www.sighthound-strolls.proboards.com/index.cgi (also they have a Facebook page), http://rigalireland.wordpress.com/

 

[Macha]

Two more to add to dogs posted yesterday. These dogs will urgently need out of the pound next week if they aren't reclaimed by their owners. If you can help please contact Martina at "a dog's life". There are contact forms on both of the following websites:

www.facebook.com/adogslife.ie

www.adogslife.ie/ (info on dogs in rescue, no longer in pound, include some sighthounds)

photos of the following lurchers in Dunboyne pound near Dublin, and more contact info are posted at petsireland website:

http://petsireland.invisionzone.com/index....mp;fromsearch=1

pale cream saluki type female

Tammy, kennel 15

needs out 12/12

http://petsireland.invisionzone.com/index....mp;fromsearch=1

red fawn smooth haired lurcher, prick ears and fairly stocky build though thin, friendly nature

Tilly kennel 3

needs out 13 Dec