MAKANTS SOCIAL DOG WALK
Our Winter Social Dog Walk takes place on Sunday 9th February. Please see the attached poster for details and note that this is a walk for sighthounds only. […]
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FRIDAY FEATURE
Our first Friday Feature of 2020 features the lovely QUEEN. Two year old QUEEN was lucky to enjoy a few days away from kennels recently with male greyhounds Neil and […]
END OF YEAR ROUNDUP – 2019 – WHAT A YEAR!
As 2019 draws to a close we’d like to look back and touch on some of the events of this year. The most memorable event must be when Pheby joined […]
FRIDAY FEATURE *UPDATE*
JAKE Handsome black boy JAKE was our very first Friday Feature of 2019 and was also mentioned in a subsequent Valentine feature. In that feature Jake described himself as ‘tall […]
MILDRED has a home!
Today we also share homing news of another hound … and this time it’s MILDRED! Stunning Mildred had been in foster with Anne Harbinson before being adopted at the weekend […]
BLUE (now Baloo) has a home!
We’ve got some really heartwarming homing news to share today … and this time it’s BLUE! Long stay hound of over 15 months shy boy BLUE (now known as BALOO) […]
Supporting the ‘Santa Paws’ Appeal
Our fabulous volunteers have again been supporting the Santa Paws appeal at local Pets at Home stores this weekend. Our thanks go to Pauline, Dave and hound Bear, Fiona, Wendy […]
Friday Feature – CHARLIE
This week for our Friday Feature we throw the spotlight on friendly boy CHARLIE Charlie arrived with us in May this year and settled well. He loves the company of […]
Goodbye Lynda!
Volunteer Lynda called in to say goodbye today as she leaves the area this weekend to live near her daughter in Lincolnshire. Lynda has been volunteering with us for over […]
Pheby and Emily meet Father Christmas
Thanks to Moe for this lovely heartwarming photo to start off our week. The photo shows Pheby and Emily, both rescued from the Canidrome in Macau earlier this year, enjoying […]
Fundraising at Haigh Woodland Artisan Market
Despite the cold and damp weather our fundraisers had a great time at the Haigh Woodland Park Artisan market this weekend. Thanks to our volunteers – Fiona, Jo, Sue, Mary […]
Raising awareness event – Best Friends Day Nursery, Mosley Common
We had a lovely time at the Best Friends Nursery event in Mosley common today. Thanks to volunteer Lisa Jane for inviting us to take part, it was a great […]
We are six!
Makants Greyhound Rescue NW was formed on the 11th December 2013 – making today our sixth birthday! From humble beginnings with just five kennels, one hound and one slip lead […]
KENNEL SPONSORSHIP
**Makants Kennel Sponsorship** Are you looking for a gift for someone who has everything and struggling what to buy? Look no further ……. We’re excited to announce that we have […]
Makants support the Santa Paws Appeal at Pets at Home stores
Our volunteers were busy again this weekend supporting the Pets at Home Support Adoption for Pets Santa Paws appeal. Lynda and Titch were in attendance at the Horwich store, with […]
*FRIDAY FEATURE – TWO YEAR OLD JACK*
Jackie, now known as Jack, is our young gentle giant who has been in a foster home for three weeks now with David and his two dogs. Jack has proved […]
WEENY – homed!
We’ve more adoption news for you supporters and this time it’s WEENY! This sweet girl now known as VENUS lives in Worsley with Kate. We wish them both every happiness […]
JEZ has been homed!
Today we’ve some lovely news to share …. JEZ has been homed! Jez, now known as Charlie, came to us in October in poor condition from the Blackpool area. With […]
CHRISTMAS FAIR – A GREAT SUCCESS!
We are absolutely astounded to announce that our Xmas Fair, held on Sunday, raised the magnificent sum of £3301.63! We’ve so many people to send our thanks to including: Jan […]
DOG OF THE MONTH FOR DECEMBER – HILLY
Hilly arrived with us in April 2019, settled in well and is slowly learning about the big wide world. He loves to watch the world go by and take everything […]
Black Friday
**BLACK FRIDAY** We’re excited to let you know about our Black Friday deals! Yes, we have 10 black greyhounds in our kennels, just waiting to be snapped up for their […]
MAKANTS XMAS FAIR
It’s our Christmas fair this Sunday 1st December from 12 noon at Boothstown British Legion. We really will have something for everyone including a doggie fancy dress competition at 3 […]
Fundraising round up
This weekend has been a hectic one for our fundraisers with attendance at no less than six events! We’ve had a team at Curley’s Dining Room Xmas Fair, a street […]
Friday Feature – Bullet
Two year old Bullet is under the spotlight this week as our Friday Feature. This lovely young lad arrived with us at the beginning of November and has settled in […]
Social media
Did you know you can also find us on: Facebook – Makants Greyhound Rescue NW Instagram – Makantsgreyhounds Twitter – @MakantsGreys You can also contact us by e mail: […]
Heart of Salford awards afternoon 18.11.19
We had a wonderful afternoon at the Heart of Salford awards at the A J Bell stadium today. We didn’t win an award but nevertheless it was a well organised […]
Sunday’s fundraising
We had two teams fundraising this Sunday, one at Haigh Woodland Park Artisan market and one at the Pets at Home store, Middlebrook, Horwich. Thanks to everyone who came along […]
Recent fundraising
We had a fabulous day in Wigan town centre yesterday – the Saturday shoppers can’t fail to have noticed our little gang of volunteers and hounds! The amount of greyhounds […]
We are speechless!
We recently received a wonderful donation of over £2,000 from the Iheartwhippets facebook page after their recent online auction. We followed the auction closely as it was full of beautiful […]
FRIDAY FEATURE – HILLY
Our Friday Feature this week is the lovely HILLY. This boy, with the puppy dog eyes, arrived with us back in April and was recently lucky to spend a weekend […]
VOLUNTEER FOR US
Come and volunteer for us! Whatever your talent – we need you! We’re currently looking for help for our fundraising and walking teams. If you’ve often wondered about how to […]
CHRISTMAS FAIR – 1 DECEMBER
Plans are well under way for our Christmas fair which this year is on Sunday 1st December at the Boothstown British Legion. (see poster for full details). We are currently […]
Fundraising this weekend
Our fabulous fundraising teams were at Warrington Makers market and at the Pets at Home, Walkden store today. Thanks to everyone who came along to see us at both events […]
Friday Feature – ALFIE
Four year old Alfie arrived with us last month. He’s a friendly lad who loves to play ball. He loves people too and enjoys time spent with volunteers – […]
RAVEN – a year in his forever home
We’ve a lovely account to share with you today, sent in by Col Stephan who adopted Raven this time last year. Raven had been in our care for just over […]
Thank You
Today we send our love and grateful thanks to two families who have recently made large donations to our rescue in memory of their loved ones. Recently we lost two […]
Blankets needed – can you help?
Supporters, our stocks of blankets are running low and we would like your help. In order to keep our hounds warm this winter we need more donations of large blankets. […]
QUEENIE homed
We start the week off the best way – with homing news! Makants supporter George recently lost his adopted hound Annie and came to us looking for another hound companion. […]
Fundraising at Jollye’s Pet Superstore, St. Helens
We had a fundraising team at Jollye’s Superstore in St. Helens today. We send our thanks to the team for giving their time on a miserable grey Saturday 🙁 We […]
JACKIE – DOG OF THE MONTH FOR NOVEMBER
Stunning gentle giant two year old JACKIE is our dog of the month for November. Jackie arrived with us just last month but has already attracted a large fan club […]
Friday Feature – JOE
Kennel hound Joe was lucky to have a weekend sleepover recently with our regular volunteer Andy. While Joe wasn’t sure of Andy’s car he loved his new experience of being […]
Can You Help ???
Supporters, we are already thinking ahead to our Christmas Fair and hope you can help us make it the best ever. We are looking for donations for our tombolas, in […]
And Action…..
Some of our volunteers enjoyed their ‘five minutes of fame’ at the weekend thanks to student journalist Ben and film student Elanya. The Salford Uni students contacted us to make […]
Sending out a big ‘hello’ and ‘welcome’ to all new supporters who have joined us over the past few weeks. We’re happy to have you on board and always welcome […]