2025 CELEBRATING GREYHOUNDS
Calendars!!
Calendars!!
2025 Celebrating Greyhound Calendars can ONLY be ordered directly through Marci at [email protected]
(They are not available through the Greysave website)
CALIENTE TRACK HAS CLOSED
The Caliente racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico, which was the primary source of greyhounds for GreySave closed on July 14, 2024. GreySave worked with Fast Friends to make sure that all 150 greyhounds made it safely back to the U.S. and into qualified adoption groups before 8/1/2024 when the border crossing regulations by the CDC were set to change drastically. A great many of our former adopters took in a foster dog with intent to adopt that dog if he/she was a good fit in their home. Almost all of these foster dogs are in the process of being adopted, once the spays and neuters are completed. We no longer have any dogs left available for adoption. Thank you to everyone that stepped forward in a short amount of time to make this all possible.
Greysave Loses Another Pillar
Stephanie Shields 7/27/47 - 7/3/24
It is with great sorrow we announce the passing of GreySave’s Secretary, Treasurer and committed volunteer, Stephanie Shields. Stephanie endured medical issues that she could not overcome and passed with her husband Jay, and her sons at her bedside. Her pet lover spirit drew her into the greyhound world after meeting greys in Sedona and at the Meet and Greet in Chino. She learned about Homecomings for dogs retiring from the track and began her volunteering. She and Jay adopted their first dog in 2006 and shortly after, began fostering. Her commitment escalated into caring for the injured and special needs dogs. She was nominated and became a board member for GreySave and eventually volunteered to take on several Secretarial jobs. After retiring she became involved in helping retrieve the dogs at the Caliente track in Mexico. She and Jay made numerous trips to the track and established friendships with the pet kennel manager and other kennel owners. She was known for bringing many needed supplies to the pet kennel that was much appreciated. As the organization had to make changes to move the Homecoming events to another location, she and Jay volunteered their home. She ran a tight ship every time new dogs arrived. All the volunteers learned their jobs and she lead the team. Her fun and sassy sense of humor will be missed by all of us. She was an expert tech person and a good resource to all of us. She is probably at the rainbow bridge organizing the dogs and preparing them for all our eventual arrival.
Cathy Kiburtz (August 4, 1947 - February 26, 2024)
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It is with great sorrow we announce the passing of Greysave’s Founder and President, Cathy Kiburtz. Cathy passed away peacefully at home just before Midnight on February 26th. Cathy was the force behind GreySave, a non-profit she started in 2006. GreySave’s vision is simple - “To find loving homes for former racing greyhounds”, and Cathy did that with passion and ease. The thousands of dogs she has been instrumental in bringing out of the Caliente racetrack and rehomed as family pets are a testament to her legacy. Her presence within the organization will be deeply missed as well by her family - Husband Alan, Sons Ethan (his wife Kristen and their children Samantha and Miles) & Jeff (his wife Luciana & their children Olivia and Anika), Siblings - Rebecca Buxton Latimer, Percival Buxton III and Laura Buxton, Aunt, Mabel Belmore, and of course her own pack of greyhounds in Utah. Most of us have no idea all that Cathy did for GreySave or her family, but we will soon find out and adjust with not having her here for her knowledge and guidance.
Cathy passed away peacefully surrounded by her family and, of course, her greyhounds. If you would like to make a donation in memory of Cathy, please go to greysave.org/celebrate-a-life. |
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HELPING GREYHOUNDS FIND FOREVER HOMES
GreySave is a greyhound adoption and support group in Southern California. While the majority of GreySave's greyhounds come from the Caliente racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico, we also take in racing greyhounds found in animal shelters, from individuals who can no longer care for them and occasionally get young hounds that did not race and older hounds from kennels in the mid-west. GreySave provides a safety net for all of our previously adopted greyhounds and those that have moved to Southern California by always accepting them into the GreySave family. We adopt our hounds into loving homes in Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, San Diego and parts of Kern, Fresno and San Luis Obispo counties. Whether you're in Los Angeles, Long Beach, Ontario, Anaheim, La Crescenta, Huntington Beach, or about anywhere up the southern coast of California or inland to Palm Springs we have foster dogs and adoption reps near you. See the most recent arrivals photos on the right. To find out details about each one of our adoptable hounds see click Adopt a Greyhound. To find what it is like to be a Foster Home see Foster a Greyhound. Either way you are doing something VERY special for these special hounds! |
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