As a long time donor and dog lover I recently took the time to visit ngf at it's headquarters. I was surprised to see the entire foundation consists of 94year old mother and 70 year old son. There are no facilities,dogs, or even any dog related activities.Mother and son are either wheelchair bound or bed ridden. Donations are still solicited and those received go only to pad the personal accounts of a couple aging swindlers. I strongly caution you to do your research before opening your checkbook to this farce of a foundation.
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- EIN 65-0491973
- (352) 628-2281
- Po Box 638 Homosassa FL 34487 USA
- www.4greyhounds.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Animal Protection & Welfare, Animals
Mission: The national greyhound foundation (ngf), a national 501(c)3 organization formed in 1994, rescues, adopts, and educates people and families about retired racing greyhounds and other abused animals and people.
Programs: The ngf serviced thousands of families with adoption assistance, adoption referrals, and consultation services in 2014 in 50 states and 3 countries. The most important program of the foundation is the 2nd chance at life: greyhounds and prison partnership program where 120 incarcerated men and women volunteers, become animal behaviorists and trainers. The ngf currently has their primary central training facility in florida and another in arizona. Greyhounds are rescued from the race tracks from owners and are shipped to the prisons where they enter the program to be trained as companion dogs, therapy dogs and service dogs for veterans with ptsd. In the 5 month training sessions, dogs are taught six basic obedience commands, heel, sit, stay, down, wait, come. Many greyhounds are advanced to therapy dog training for servicing retirement homes, hospitals and other facilities. A select few are able to progress to purple heart greyhound service dogs (phghsd) and undergo training for verterans with ptsd. The phghsd are taught commands as needed by the veteran like "pick it up", "cover my back" and "get help" plus other ptsd specific commands. The dogs are matched and given free to the veteran along with a training period of how to work with their dog. Ngf and its mentor partners give extensive follow up service to follow the placement of the dog with its family. The veterans are taught how to work with their dogs once they are delivered to their new home. To date this year, 120 greyhounds were graduated and placed in homes as companion or therapy dogs. Due to lack of funds for these veterans, only two dogs have been placed with veterans or other ptsd victims through the program. At the end of the year we had a possible 5 dogs able to go forward with service dog training. Not only do veterans themselves benefit, but their families, inmates and their families who learn anger management and parenting, adoptive families and communities are witness to the unconditional love of these greyhounds.