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Help Bones!
Bones, one of our foster greyhounds, recently suffered a severe injury to his front left leg. Thankfully Bones is in recovery and still eager to find his Forever Family, but we need help covering his extensive surgery bill. Can you help?
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Hello,
I am a volunteer with Greyhound Rescue and Rehabiliation down here in the Lower Hudson Valley. Like you guys we do meet and greets at mostly pet stores like Pet Smart and such and I noticed that you guys have managed to get approval to do M&G’s at the Carousel Center Mall up near you. My question to you is how in the world did you manage such a feat. Our mall down here, The Palisades Center, also owned by Pyramid Management just like your mall, will not allow dogs inside the mall, period. They claim its due to liability and they have a strict no pet policy. I contact Pyramid Management directly and they stood by that claim.
We are limited to doing our M&G inside a small pet boutique inside the mall since the pet store becomes the one liable. And even thats a nightmare because the mall is paranoid about the dogs even walking through the mall to get to the store but we’ve somehow managed to get them to at least let us do that much. Sadly we don’t get the exposure being inside the pet store. Its sort of out of the way and the traffic just isn’t there. We really would love to be able to set up inside the main corridors like you guys. You guys are so lucky to have such a venue for to promote the hounds. How well do you do on an average weekend with potential adopters and what are the donations like? I’d love to know who you spoke to in order to get in there. Was it the mall management or Pyramids corporate offices? I’ve made it my mission to make this happen for us and I have not given up just yet.
Thanks in advance,
Adam
Adam,
We had experienced the same problem with other malls not allowing us to bring in our greyhounds for events and meet and greets. We just happen to be in the right spot at the right time to gain the spot at our local Carousel Mall. A friend of mine that ran Greyhounds Of Central NY had gotten her leg in the door years ago. She may have been granfathered in before they made their policies stricter? I know I came acorss the same problem you have with the same mall owners not allowing the dogs at their other malls. I also see it as a testiment of her relationships with the community and how well she maintained that through the years at the mall with the dogs. Since she gave it over to us, I’ve only dealt with the PR Rep at the mall office to do the paperwork, show proof of 501c3, our insurance and all the other details of the days we commited to. Hope it lasts for a good long time for us, it IS SUCH a great location with high exposure for the dogs, adoptions and donations. We couldn’t hope for anything better!! Sorry I’m not much help. This was a gift to us….we really did nothing other then accept it from the previous group.
Wendy Case
Greyhound Outreach, Inc.
Good evening. I would like to make a donation to Bones for the surgery this beautiful animal under went. Is there an address I can send a check to and could you tell me who it should be made out to so that it goes to Bones?
Thank You.
Tony and anyone else that prefers to donate by mailing us a check, instead of using PayPal…
Please make all checks payable to Greyhound Outreach, Inc.
Mail your donation to us at:
P.O. Box 912
Oswego, NY 13126
Thank you for any and all donations. You are helping many more greyhounds find their forever homes. They deserve to know a comfy place to lay down in a warm home with a loving family to spoil them!!!!!
Sincerely,
Wendy Case
Founder of Greyhound Outreach in 2002
I am in the beginning stages of looking into getting a dog. I came across this site. I’ve seen the greyhounds in the area and have always intrigued me. Could you please let me know what kind of fees are involved in adopting the dogs? Thank you, Julie
The Adoption Donation is $275.00. This helps to pay for the adopted greyhounds vetting which includes: An exam, Spay or Neuter, teeth cleaning, all shots updated, testings for worms/heart worm. Any treatments needed for worms [if positive], heartworm preventative given, flea/tick topical treatment applied and any other medical need of the dog. Our gas fees are averaged into each adoption as well. The majority of our greyhounds come from Florida.
Hi Wendy,
My name is India Maisonet and ive been very interested in talking to someone about adopting a greyhound. Ive called you twice and left messages, although, im not sure you received them. I look forward to hearing from you !
India