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A lovely update on Bandit. His new mum and dad made the long journey from Cheshire to Sunderland yesterday to collect Ba...
30/01/2026

A lovely update on Bandit. His new mum and dad made the long journey from Cheshire to Sunderland yesterday to collect Bandit and take him to his new home. Welcome home Bandit.

Here are two that really do need a hand.
29/01/2026

Here are two that really do need a hand.

💔 TWO GREYHOUNDS. ONE LAST CHANCE. 💔

As Brighton Retired Greyhound Trust prepares to close its kennels, our hearts are heavy knowing we still have two beautiful greyhounds waiting for their forever homes.

🐾 Best & Nelson 🐾

These lovely boys have done nothing but wait patiently — trusting that their people will come.
They don’t understand why the kennels are getting quieter.
They don’t know why bags are being packed.
They only know they are still waiting… 💔

We truly believe there is a sofa, a home and a family out there for each of them — but we need your help to find it.
🙏 Please share this post
🙏 Please tell your friends
🙏 Please help us reach that one person who has room in their heart and home

Best and Nelson would be happiest in calm, adult-only homes where they can enjoy the quieter side of life. They would need to be the only dog in the home and would really benefit from greyhound-experienced owners who understand their ways and can help them settle into retirement.

📞 To find out more about Best or Nelson, please call the kennels on 07704 982140.
Please help us make sure their story ends with love, comfort and a sofa to call their own 🛋️❤️🐾

Let's have a great bit shout out for Bandit. Bandit is a lovely, calm lad. He was in a home with another greyhound but...
19/01/2026

Let's have a great bit shout out for Bandit.
Bandit is a lovely, calm lad. He was in a home with another greyhound but tragically his owner started to become ill and struggled on until he was taken into hospital and had to surrender his two much loved dogs. He would have like to have them back home but he was being sensible and doing what's right for the dogs.
Bandit's companion found a new home quite quickly but he Bandit needed some veterinary treatment. He's all better now and so he's looking for a new, loving home. He has been left with a bit of a limp after his surgery but it doesn't seem to be bothering him and the vet says he's fine to be adopted.
He's used to living in a home and other pet dog stuff like going for walks and visiting the pub. He would make a lovely pet for someone who wants to adopt an older, calm lad.
Bandit is 6 and a half and is based up in the north east of the country. But as we all say, 'have dog will travel' and there's an informal team who can help with home checks and transport to different regions of the country.
If you think you might be the right person for Bandit then please message the page or ring Clare on 0779 2656176.

**Update**Thank you to all so very much for your interest in and/or sharing Captains post to help him find his forever h...
15/01/2026

**Update**

Thank you to all so very much for your interest in and/or sharing Captains post to help him find his forever home.

The lucky boy went home last Saturday. He’s really landed on his feet and not only has he found such a wonderful home (Thank you Madge) but he also has two doggo friends to share his life with now too 🐾

Good luck Captain - we’re so pleased you have such a wonderful and loving family to share the rest of your life with. Words couldn’t express the joy you have bought to him. Forever grateful to you and everyone who showed an interest or shared 🥰

**Update**Thank you to all so very much for your interest in and/or sharing Captains post to help him find his forever h...
30/12/2025

**Update**

Thank you to all so very much for your interest in and/or sharing Captains post to help him find his forever home.

The lucky boy went home last Saturday. He’s really landed on his feet and not only has he found such a wonderful home (Thank you Madge) but he also has two doggo friends to share his life with now too 🐾

Good luck Captain - we’re so pleased you have such a wonderful and loving family to share the rest of your life with. Words couldn’t express the joy you have bought to him. Forever grateful to you and everyone who showed an interest or shared 🥰

**EDIT**

Firstly thank you to everybody for your interest in and sharing Captain helping him find his forever home.
There has been huge interest (lucky boy) and we do have a potential home although a potential is still far from adoption.
If you would like to send details if you’re still interested I will keep you updated as to Captains progress.

**Thank you**

If anyone can open their hearts and home to this older lady then please get in touch with Peaceful Pets.
14/04/2025

If anyone can open their hearts and home to this older lady then please get in touch with Peaceful Pets.

We have an older greyhound coming back into our care later this week, Jaxx 🩷She was rehomed by us back in March 2018, so has been in her home for 7 years. Jaxx is just shy of 9 and a half.

Fortunately for Jaxx, she has a wonderful foster home to head straight into this weekend 🥰, as we really did not want her to come back into the kennel environment at her age. So whilst it is great news for Jaxx, we just wanted to pop a note on to say, that while we do recognise that sometimes taking on a younger dog is preferable, there are a lot of older dogs who also need homes 🥹

We started the year with two other returns, again older hounds, Kenzie (born 2017) and Fudge (born 2017) who thankfully also went directly into foster. Overall it has been a really tough start for the charity this year in this respect, we have seen a number of greyhounds returned to us, who have been in homes for a number of years. This is not a blame post, so please no disrespectful comments as their families have found it devastating to make these decsions, but rather the reality that even with the best will in the world things sometimes, can and do change which mean people can no longer keep them 😞 so this is a HUGE thank you to those who have stepped in to help those senior houndies by offering foster homes so they don't need to return to kennels.

Please don't forget to consider these older dogs, they are just as good and deserving, dogs like Vinnie (born 2017) who was in a home for a few months, Dean & Ned (born 2019) who we haven't yet introduced (they are not returns, just new intakes, who are a touch older)as they really do also deserve a chance too 💙🩵

02/02/2025

A nice bit of news here. Jet went off to his forever home today and has settled right in. Well done Jet, it's good that you won some hearts.

26/01/2025

A few people have pointed out that 6 or 7 isn't very old. Well here's a chap who's been falling through the 'not very old' net and after 4 years in a retirement kennel is now heading rapidly towards the 'elderly' description.
Please give him a shout out and help him to find his forever home before he spends another year waiting.

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I was a volunteer for quite some time in a racing greyhound rehoming kennel. I watched dogs come and go and occasionally come back again. Most of the dogs that came in went to their loving homes within a fairly short time, but there were others that were overlooked time and time again. The reasons for this varied, sometimes it was because they were big, black boys, sometimes they were over excited, sometimes they were shrinking violets, but other times I just could not understand why these lovely dogs were just being ignored. ‘Their time will come’, I used to think. But sometimes it didn’t and I would watch their muzzles turn grey and they would get slower as they plodded their way round the paddocks, then they were even less attractive to the prospective adopter. If they were lucky one day a beam of light would shine on them and somebody would want to give an old codger a sofa for their autumn years. The love that their adopters have for these oldies is beyond measure because their beloved dog might only be with them for a year or two, and that time is precious and a lifetime of love has to be condensed into such little time.

Other times an elderly greyhound would come back into the kennel because their owner had died or become incapacitate in some way or other. These old dogs must wonder what on earth they had done wrong, whisked away from their loving home and put into a kennel and everything that was comfortable and familiar to them had gone. Dogs don’t understand life and death in the way that we do.

I must stress that some dogs are out and out kennel dogs and are at their happiest in kennels and their most unhappy in a home. I can’t understand it but then, I’m not a greyhound. I have seen a miserable, depressed dog come back to life when they get back into their kennel. There’s nothing wrong with that and having witnessed it I’ll have no truck with those who say that it never happens.

This page is intended to promote the elderly greyhounds as the wonderful pets they were always going to be when they retired and to provide information and support for the wonderful people who see beyond the greying muzzles and the cloudy eyes and picture their very own prospective elderly greyhound sleeping soundly in front of the fire.