Greyhound Friends Begins Sheltering Other Breeds

Submitted by Louise Coleman, Greyhound Friends Director.

With hopes of helping more dogs and doing a better service to animals across the country,  will now begin sheltering and helping with the adoption of other dog breeds.

“Greyhound Friends will always be a predominately greyhound placement group but recently we have begun taking a few other versions of hounds and hound mixes from the Mid-West,” Louise Coleman, director of Greyhound Friends, said.

According to Coleman the intent of the inclusion is to help more dogs, but help every dog in more ways.

“Another benefit of having some hounds and beagles in our adoption kennel is that in our efforts to move them into adoption, we are networking much more extensively with regional shelters and adoption groups in New England,” Coleman said. “Non-greyhound groups have taken many of the hounds and mixes into their care and found them good homes. At the same time, the networking effort helps us get the Greyhound Friends message out and to bring more greyhound adopters to our door.”

To go along with the stretch of breeds the kennel will now house, a second website has been launched. http://houndfriends.homestead.com will now serve as a portal for anyone interested in non-greyhound dogs while http://www.greyhound.org/ will still be the source of information for the greyhounds.