RAISING AWARENESS/FUNDRAISING
Thanks to everyone who came along to our events today, either at Atherton Methodist church or at the Tesco, Leigh store. We loved meeting you all and spreading the word […]
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🌟FRIDAY FEATURE – STORM🌟
4 year old STORM arrived with us on the 8th November 2023. On arrival STORM was very timid as everything was new to her. As she has settled in, and […]
🌟MOTHER’S DAY🌟
If you’re stuck for gift ideas for Mother’s Day we have an idea for you! What about gifting your Mum a Kennel Sponsorship at Makants? From just […]
*NAIL CILPPING*
Our next nail clipping session takes place at kennels on: Saturday 9th March from 11.30 to 12.30 Please note this is for greyhounds only. There is no […]
**TONGUE OUT TUESDAY*
We’ve not had a Tongue Out Tuesday photo for a while so we thought we’d share this recent photo of LOLLY. Lovely LOLLY enjoyed a trip to a […]
🌟RUBIO🌟
Dog of the month for February A reminder that this handsome boy is still looking for his forever home. Handsome, five year old blue brindle boy RUBIO […]
VALENTINE’S WEEKEND AWARENESS EVENTS
Our thanks to everyone who came along to our awareness events this weekend either at the Walkden or Horwich Pets at Home stores. It was lovely to see you all, […]
Raising awareness of greyhounds as pets
This weekend you can find our hounds and volunteers at: Saturday 17th February, Pets at Home Walkden, 10.30 to 3 pm and Sunday 18th February, Pets at Home Horwich, […]
❤VALENTINE’S WEEK❤
FRIDAY FEATURE – LIBBY ‘Live wire’ LIBBY arrived with us on the 20th January this year. She is only a young girl – 17 months – so exhibits behaviour […]
**REMINDER**
Please, if you need to contact us please do so directly by sending a message to the facebook page or via e mail to admin@makants.uk., as comments left under […]
❤VALENTINE’S WEEK❤
We know some of our walking volunteers build up a strong bond with the dog they walk each week, even more so if the hound is in kennels for […]
❤VALENTINE’S WEEK❤
Handsome BUDDY arrived with us on the 17th May 2023. As he settled in we found that he has a cheeky personality and he is always up to […]
🌟MOTHER’S DAY🌟
If you’re stuck for gift ideas for Mother’s Day we have an idea for you! What about gifting your Mum a Kennel Sponsorship at Makants? From just […]
❤VALENTINE’S WEEK❤
We know some of our walking volunteers build up a strong bond with the dog they walk each week, even more so if the hound is in kennels for […]
❤VALENTINE’S WEEK AT MAKANTS❤
Welcome to Monday and we have the very best news to start the week – news of a homing! The hound this time is JONJO – now known […]
❤VALENTINE’S SOCIAL DOG WALK❤
Thanks to everyone who ventured out in the fog this morning to come to our Valentine’s themed social dog walk at Sale Water park. Despite it being rather […]
*SATURDAY MORNING*
We had a very busy Saturday morning at kennels with several visitors to both our shop and to our monthly nail cutting session. We were pleased to welcome staff member […]
🌟FRIDAY FEATURE🌟
❤LOLLY❤ This Friday we turn the spotlight on a recent new arrival, the lovely LOLLY. Five year old LOLLY arrived with us on the 23rd January and settled […]
Raising awareness of greyhounds as pets
This weekend you can find our volunteers with a hound or two at the following Pets at Home stores: Saturday 10th February – Raising awareness of greyhounds as pets – […]
Valentine’s Social Dog Walk
Walk details: SALE WATER PARK – SUNDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2024 Meet: 10.00 am for walk to set off at 10.30 am Address: Meet outside Tree Tops Cafe, M33 2LX There […]
🌟NAIL CLIPPING SERVICE🌟
Our next nail clipping service – for Makants hounds and other adopted greyhounds – takes place on Saturday 10th February from 11.30 to 12.30 at kennels. No appointment […]
🌟HOMING NEWS🌟
We’ve more homing news to share with you today – and this time it’s PADGE! This lovely lad only arrived with us on New Years Eve 2023 and […]
🎉🎉*PHEBY IS 12*🎉🎉
Today a very special Makants hound – PHEBY – celebrates her 12th birthday.😍 You may remember back in February 2019 when PHEBY- or Fire as she was known […]
🌟HOMING NEWS🌟
We start the week the very best way, with news of a homing, and this time it’s LEGEND! LEGEND, now known as PEP, is living in the Heald […]
*MAKANTS CRAFTERS MEET UP*
On Saturday we held our first Crafters meet up of the year in our ‘home from home’ room at kennels. It was an ideal opportunity for crafters to meet […]
*FUNDRAISING WALK FOR ALZHEIMERS SOCIETY*
SUNDAY 3 MARCH 2024, WINDY BANK WOODS, GLAZEBURY WA3 5NT 10 am meet for 10.30 start Flat walk of 5.5km with shorter route option for older dogs (30 minutes) Sighthounds […]
🌟FRIDAY FEATURE🌟
🌟MILLIE🌟 This week we turn the spotlight on gorgeous snowflake girl MILLIE. Four year old ‘pocket rocket’ MILLIE arrived with us back in August 2022 and settled in […]
🌟DOG OF THE MONTH FOR FEBRUARY🌟
🌟RUBIO🌟 Handsome, five year old blue brindle boy RUBIO is our Dog of the Month for February. RUBIO arrived with us at the beginning of December last year […]
🌟SUPPORTERS, WE NEED YOUR HELP!🌟
Burgess Pet Care are currently offering £20,000 worth of dog food to be shared between several greyhound/lurcher rescues. In order that we can be in with a chance we […]
🌟HOMING NEWS🌟
We start the week the very best way – with homing news – and this time it’s JANEY! This lovely girl joined us in October last year and […]
PARTNERSHIP NEWS
🌟PARTNERSHIP WITH PETS AT HOME STORES WALKDEN AND HORWICH🌟 We were pleased to hear that we have once again been partnered with both Walkden and Horwich Pets at Home […]
❓WHAT SORT OF PEOPLE ADOPT A GREYHOUND FROM MAKANTS ❓
All sorts of people that’s what! People that are: SINGLE *COUPLES* FAMILIES *OLDER PEOPLE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN FLATS PEOPLE WHO WORK FULL TIME OR PART TIME PEOPLE […]
🌟FRIDAY FEATURE🌟
NEW ARRIVAL ** BONO ** Handsome Irish boy BONO arrived with us on the 17th January this year. Just a youngster at 2 years old, he is settling in […]
**Valentine’s Social Dog Walk**
Walk details: SALE WATER PARK – SUNDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2024 Meet: 10.00 am for walk to set off at 10.30 am Address: Meet outside Tree Tops Cafe, M33 2LX There […]
🌟NAIL CLIPPING SERVICE🌟
🌟NAIL CLIPPING SERVICE🌟 Our next nail clipping service – for Makants hounds and other adopted greyhounds – takes place on Saturday 10th February from 11.30 to 12.30 at […]
🌟HOMING NEWS🌟
We’ve more homing news to share today and this time it’s DUCHESS! This stunning girl only arrived arrived with us at the beginning of December last year and […]
£1,000 Petplan donation
We’ve some great news to share with you today! As you may know we offer four weeks’ free insurance through Petplan to all our adopters. We were recently contacted […]
🌟HOMING NEWS🌟
We start the week the very best way – with homing news – and the hound is LILY! Beautiful brindle girl LILY came back into our care in […]
*PETS FOUNDATION* 🌟SANTA PAWS APPEAL🌟
You may remember our volunteers took part in this years’ Santa Paws appeal at the Walkden and Horwich stores in the lead up to Christmas. We’re delighted to […]
🌟FRIDAY FEATURE🌟
For our Friday Feature this week we turn the spotlight on recent new arrival, the very sweet BEAR. This cheeky looking lad arrived with us at the beginning […]
🌟🌟CHARM 🌟🌟
MAKANTS JANUARY 2024 CALENDAR GIRL! If you have one of our much sought after 20204 calendars we thought you might like to know a little more about the hounds […]
❗️ADVANCE NOTICE❗️
*BURNS NIGHT ‘NAME THE DOG CARD’* Coming up next Thursday 25th January – Burns Night – at 7 pm is our next ‘name the dog card’. This one […]
🌟HOMING NEWS🌟
We’re pleased to share more homing news today and this time it’s PIXIE! This lovely girl is now living in the St. Helens area with Makants volunteer Susie. […]
🌟DECEMBER HOMINGS🌟
🌟DECEMBER HOMINGS🌟 December was a great month for homings with no less than EIGHT of our hounds finding their forever sofas. The lucky hounds who found their homes […]
*WOW* what a busy morning!
It was busy in our kennels shop this morning with coats and fleeces literally flying off the shelves! We also held our first nail clipping session of the […]
❤FRIDAY FACES❤
In a change to our usual Friday feature, this Friday we have something of a Makants love story to share with you……. It seems that Makants hound HILARY […]
🌟WE NEED YOU!🌟
As you know, Makants is a completely self funded greyhound rescue, now in its 11th year. We continue to thrive with help from our volunteers and supporters. This […]
🌟HOMING NEWS🌟
We’ve homing news to share today – and this time it’s BOBBY! Beautiful blue girl BOBBY, now known as ROGUE, is living with Deborah and Trevor in the […]
Kennels today
When your Dad just takes absolutely AGES in the kennels shop …. you’ve got to rest your head somewhere Our kennel shop was busy this morning and we had our […]
FRIDAY FEATURE – 🌟S T O R M 🌟
This week we turn the spotlight on a recent new arrival, the lovely STORM 4 year old STORM arrived with us on the 8th November 2023 and certainly […]
*SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT THE RESCUE IN 2023*
During 2023 we were pleased to meet with several visitors to kennels, both from the local area and further afield. We were able to share practices and ideas, and […]
**DOG OF THE MONTH FOR JANUARY 2024**
❤ J O N J O ❤ 2.5 year old JONJO arrived with us on the 29th November 2023 and soon settled in. A smaller hound, we’ve […]
A message from Siobhan…
🌟🌟END OF YEAR ROUND UP🌟🌟 ‘Being our birthday year we have had far more social dog walks which have expanded into areas further afield, helping spread the word […]
**ARE YOU CRAFTY?**
Would you like to make items for our fundraising efforts? We are always looking for people to join our Makants Crafters group, a friendly group of people who […]
**UNWANTED CHRISTMAS GIFTS?**
Are you thinking of ‘re gifting’ any of the items you received this Christmas time? Do you have anything that we could use for our fundraising tombolas (items […]
🌟HOMING NEWS!🌟
We’ve some fabulous news of a Christmas Eve adoption and the lucky hound is WOOFY! WOOFY, now known as HARRY, is living in the Rochdale area with Chris […]
What day is it?
It’s that strange time between Christmas and New year when you don’t know what day it is! After a couple of days indulgence is anyone else feeling a bit like […]
*MERRY CHRISTMAS!*
Sending all our supporters best wishes for a very Happy Christmas. The hounds will be having their walk as usual today – thanks to our fantastic volunteers – with plenty […]
OUT OF OFFICE
Whilst the day to day running of the kennels will continue over Xmas, our ‘back stage team’ of volunteers will be taking a break for a couple of days over […]
🎄🎄*CHRISTMAS EVE UPDATE*🎄🎄
You may remember that the big black lovely lad that is TY found his forever home in November. Having been in our care for 2.5 years we were so […]
HOMING NEWS!
Lovely LUNA has been homed! LUNA, or SALLY as she is now known, has been adopted by Natalie and Matthew and their two boys and is living in Cuddington […]
*HOMING NEWS*
We’ve more great homing news to share today and this time it’s MAX! This lovely lad is now living with humans Bev and Pete and hound Millie in […]
*HOMING NEWS*
Time to catch up with some homing news today and this time it’s ALAN! This stunning boy arrived with us in the middle of November and wasted no […]
*HOMING NEWS*
Recently, adopted Makants hound RENO was returned to us for rehoming. We know this wasn’t an easy decision but we are pleased to let you all know that RENO, […]
REMINDER
Just a courtesy reminder that the deadline has now passed for kennel sponsorship for this Christmas. Also we have sold ALL our Christmas calendars! To avoid disappointment please […]
SANTA PAWS APPEAL
Our volunteers have been busy supporting the ‘Santa Paws’ appeal in our partnered Pets at Home stores – Horwich and Walkden – this past couple of weeks. Maybe you have […]
*KEEPING COSY*
Our hounds like to wear their PJ’s at night to keep themselves cosy in kennels. What you might not know is that all the hounds have their very own PJ’s […]
PETS FOUNDATION ‘SANTA PAWS’ APPEAL
Our volunteers have been busy supporting the ‘Santa Paws’ appeal in our partnered Pets at Home stores – Horwich and Walkden – this past couple of weeks. Maybe you have […]
WHAT SORT OF PEOPLE ADOPT A GREYHOUND FROM MAKANTS
All sorts of people that’s what! People that are: SINGLE *COUPLES* FAMILIES *OLDER PEOPLE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN FLATS PEOPLE WHO WORK FULL TIME OR PART TIME PEOPLE WHO ARE […]
🌟10TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS🌟
Amongst the birthday celebrations there’s been a lot of cake cutting these past two days – cakes for both humans and hounds.😁 Our thanks to supporters Anne Taberner […]
HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY MAKANTS!
Since childhood Siobhan had always been intrigued by sighthounds. Having had her own dogs, and then being able to provide kennelling for Rochdale Dog Rescue, her mind soon turned again […]
*10th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION WALK*
Well it was certainly a soggy one, but we still had a brilliant 10th birthday celebration walk today at the Lancashire Mining Museum. After a swift walk in […]
🌟PETS FOUNDATION ‘SANTA PAWS’ APPEAL🌟
Our volunteers have been busy supporting the ‘Santa Paws’ appeal in our partnered Pets at Home stores – Horwich and Walkden – this past couple of weeks. Maybe you […]
*A BUSY MORNING AT KENNELS*
We had a busy morning at kennels with lots of visitors to the kennels shop and some lovely donations too. We also had two adoptions – more on that […]
**EVENT CANCELLED**
**Due to the severe weather forecast for today the Xmas market at Atherton has unfortunately been CANCELLED.** If you are looking for coats for your dog our shop is […]
🌟FRIDAY FEATURE🌟
Today we throw the spotlight on petite black girl JANEY.😍 Three year old JANEY arrived with us on the 13th October. Despite initially being a little timid she […]
*10th birthday celebration walk*
*Come and join us for a special walk to celebrate our 10th anniversary!* When: Sunday 10th December 2023 Where: Lancashire Mining Museum, Astley Green M29 7JB Meet at 9.30 am […]
🎉🎂BIRTHDAY COUNTDOWN!🎉🎂
We’re getting a wee bit excited as it’s only a few days now until we celebrate our **10th birthday**! We have our celebration social dog walk coming up […]
*GREYHOUND GIFTS FOR SALE*
Starting today at 10 am over on our Auction page we have a fixed price sale of many greyhound related items, all reasonably priced and suitable for Xmas gifts! […]
*BABY IT’S COLD OUTSIDE*🐾
We’ve made sure to keep our hounds toasty warm during the recent cold weather. Here’s new arrival JONJO posing for the camera while spending time in his PJ’s […]
❄️❄️SNOW DAY ❄️❄️
We’ve had some snow at kennels this morning! If you’ve had some of the white stuff why not send in your doggy snow photos to our facebook page? We’d […]
🌟NEW ARRIVALS🌟
This week at kennels we have welcomed FIVE new arrivals. So far they have had lots of lovely food (thanks @burnspet Burns Pet Nutrition), been tucked up in […]
**DAM HOUSE FUNDRAISING TODAY** Saturday 2nd December
Please note: due to unforeseen circumstances we will NOT have a fundraising stall at this event today. Apologies for any inconvenience. However, our on site kennels shop is open from […]
🌟HOMING NEWS!🌟
We’ve more homing news to share today and this time it’s JUMBO! JUMBO, now known as FREDDIE, is now living in the Radcliffe are with Ian and Carole. […]
FUNDRAISING FRIDAY 1 DECEMEBER
You can find our fundraising team at both of these events on Friday 1 December. Be sure to check our facebook page as we are attending FIVE events over the […]
🌟HOMING NEWS🌟
We’ve got some lovely homing news to share with you today and this time it’s MAZDA! MAZDA, now known as ROBBIE, is living with Charline and James in […]
*MAKANTS XMAS FAIR*
Wow, what a day! Thanks so much to everyone who attended our fundraising event at Boothstown British Legion earlier today. We are pleased to announce that we raised the amazing […]
MAKANTS CHRISTMAS FAIR 2023
Don’t miss out! This Sunday 26th November come along to our Xmas Fair taking place at Boothstown British Legion from 11 am to 3 pm. Tombolas, home made cakes […]
Just WOW!!
We’ve some fabulous news to share with you today! Hannah Payton, who has been volunteering for us over 4 years, was last night Awarded the Young Person of the Year […]
*MAKANTS KENNEL SPONSORSHIP*
🎄AN IDEAL XMAS GIFT🎄 Why not sponsor one of our kennels, an ideal gift for a loved one this Christmas. You can sponsor a kennel for 3 […]
*NEW ARRIVAL*
Handsome brindle boy ALAN joined us on the 18th November 2023. More details to follow. photo Shilpa Grewal www.makants.uk Makants – Burns UK charity of the year 2022/23 […]
*BURNS PET NUTRITION*
Burns Pet Nutrition celebrate their 30th anniversary this year. We have been so appreciative of the tremendous amount of high quality food we have received as Charity of […]
*KENNELS SHOP*
🌟NEW IN! Hand made by volunteer Susie, cosy hound PJ’s – 2 legged design – in sizes 28, 30 and 32 inches. Just £20🌟 Our kennels shop is […]
🎂🎂🌟JOIN US FOR A SPECIAL CELEBRATION WALK🌟🎂🎂
A reminder from KEVIN…. When: Sunday 10th December 2023 Where: Lancashire Mining Museum, Astley Green M29 7JB Meet at 9.30 am for walk to set off at 10 […]
FUNDRAISING CANCELLATION
**DUE TO THE POOR WEATHER FORECAST FROM 10 AM WE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO ATTEND THE HAIGH WOODLAND ARTISAN MARKET TODAY SUNDAY 19.11.23** […]
*FUNDRAISING TODAY*
We’d like to thank everyone who supported us by coming along to our fundraisers today, whether at the Cats Protection Xmas fair, Garswood Hall Xmas fair or at the […]
*NEW ARRIVAL*
After several successful adoptions we’ve now had four new hounds join over the past two weeks. We start our introductions today with beautiful four year old STORM who arrived […]
*FUNDRAISING THIS WEEKEND* 18/19 NOVEMBER 2023
Our volunteers are fundraising at no less than FOUR events this weekend! Please come along and support your local greyhound rescue.😁 Full details on these events can be […]
**CELEBRATION WALK**
*Come and join us for a special walk to celebrate our 10th anniversary!* When: Sunday 10th December 2023 Where: Lancashire Mining Museum, Astley Green M29 7JB Meet at 9.30 am […]
*FUNDRAISING – NAME THE DOG CARD XMAS HAMPER*😁
Taking place on the 22nd November is our next Name the Dog Card fundraiser with each guess at just £5.00. The winning hamper contains: a home made Advent […]