Volunteer with Us

Meet and Greets

Much of our contact with the general public comes at places like pet stores, or at special events or festivals at various venues in Durham Region and GTA throughout the year. The purpose of our Meet & Greets is to educate the public about greyhounds in general and greyhound adoption in particular and provide an opportunity to meet a greyhound. For more information about volunteering at a Meet & Greet, please contact info@afterthetrack.ca.

Become a Foster Home

The greyhounds come from tracks all across the south eastern United States. The dogs are vetted and once they have been given a clean bill of health, they are transported to us for fostering and adoption. When these greyhounds come to us, they have never before lived in a home environment. We rely solely on foster homes to care for the greyhounds until they find their forever homes. The duty of a foster home is simple: to help the retired racing greyhounds make the transition from crate to couch.

Please remember that the more foster homes we have available, the more greyhounds we can bring into our system and ultimately find adoptive homes for. It is the greyhounds who win, and that is what it’s all about.

For more information about fostering, see the Fostering web page.

Donations

Donations of blankets, crates, food (quality lamb and rice), bedding, and financial contributions are always appreciated.

Fundraisers Team

Support through donations and fundraising participation from generous people like you have enabled us to provide support to canine cancer research, and other greyhound related groups. Do you have experience with raising money for a group? Are you good at organizing an event or project? Do you have ideas or connections with merchandising individuals? Are you a detail-oriented person? Then this team is interested in your help.

Educational and Support Team

This team works for the education of the public and for the adoptive homes. Our group strives to connect with people who stop at our booths, finds us when we are out walking our dogs or those people who email us asking for more information about our dogs. This teams produces information sheets for pet parents maintains personal contact with interested parties and general promote the breed.