god give me strength!

Hi Emma, plain and simple the BGRF will only give money to the RGT, they see other Greyhound rescues like GAL I guess as not as important or as big as the RGT. The BGRF DID offer about 5 months ago a grant of 100K to be split equally between non RGT rescues, the maximum available to each charity was to be 5k, GAL did apply but we are still waiting to hear from them, doubt if they will give us any now. Bottom line is the BGRF / NGRC see themselves as the governing body and as such want some control over the retired hounds, I'm not sure they understand the unique aspects of GAL's policys, to put things into perspective GAL homed around more hounds last year than the 3 Scottish RGT branches put together have in their lifetimes. The main differences between GAL and the RGT is that we take in any dog no matter the circumstance, the RGT will only take dogs from registered NGRC tracks, in Scotland there's 1 NGRC track and 5 'other' tracks....food for thought..