NE Ohio Greyhound Rescue
  • What We Do and Why We Need You!
  • Highly Specialized care for Special Animals
    • Save A Heart
  • Animals Helping Animals
  • The Hound House
  • Greyhounds
  • The Triplets
  • Beagles and Mixes
  • Podencos
  • The Barn
  • The Cat House
  • Greyhound Angels
  • Contact Us
  • Donate





​Animals Helping Animals

​Retired Racing Greyhounds are unique in several ways. Their larger blood volumes and universal blood types make them excellent candidates for humanely operated blood donor programs. Their extensive pedigrees, going back many generations, allow researchers to study genetic traits that may or may not be passed down to their offspring.

​Blindness

​The MRLT vision sciences lab at the University of California – Davis is currently working on a genetic study of Progressive Retinal Atrophy (PRA) in Greyhounds. A degenerative eye disease, it affects the photoreceptor cells causing them to deteriorate over time, often leading to blindness. Although one of our Sanctuary triplets, Blind Truman, developed PRA at the age of one, neither of his littermates, Tootie and Taffy, has the disease. The triplets provided valuable data for this study and it’s our hope that their genes can shed some light on the inheritable nature of PRA. We are grateful to our vet, Dr. Tom Zulandt, for helping us draw the blood for the study.

As you can see from the photo, these handsome triplets are happy to be living together.
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​Canine Cancer

​Dr. Matthew Breen at the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State is studying differences in blood between dogs with cancer, healthy siblings of dogs with cancer and healthy non-siblings of dogs with cancer in hopes of getting closer to a cure. We were delighted that eleven of our Sanctuary Greyhounds were able to provide blood samples for this vital endeavor.
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Why We Need You!
WE are a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization under section 501(c)(3) of the IRS code, and all donations and mileage are tax deductible. One hundred percent of YOUR donation is used for the vetting, feeding and general well being of the animals in our care. We have no paid employees, and rely solely on donations and grants to help pay for the top quality food and nutritional supplements, veterinary services and on site equipment that allow our Sanctuary animals to live the happiest and healthiest lives possible. And NO animal is ever euthanized due to a lack of space or resources. 
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There are several ways that you can help the Sanctuary Animals!
  1. Donate to the General Fund which will direct your donation to wherever the need is the greatest at the moment.
  2. Sponsor a specific animal in our Sanctuary.  Make a one-time or recurring donation to help with that animal’s food, medication and vet bills.  For details on each animal, check out their photos and biographies on their respective pages using the tabs at the top of this page. 
  3. ​Make an in-kind donation from our Chewy Wish List or Walmart Registry.
  4. Register with Walmart's Round Up program and donate your change to the special ones.
  5. Shop through iGive.com and earn donations for the special ones from the stores that you shop.  It won't cost you a cent.  Sign up here. 

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Some Stories About Greyhounds That Have Touched Our Lives
  • Greyhounds that Have Touched our Lives
Contact Information
NE Ohio Greyhound Rescue, Inc.
Senior and Special Needs Sanctuary

440-364-4838
P.O. Box 3, Austinburg, OH 44010
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  • What We Do and Why We Need You!
  • Highly Specialized care for Special Animals
    • Save A Heart
  • Animals Helping Animals
  • The Hound House
  • Greyhounds
  • The Triplets
  • Beagles and Mixes
  • Podencos
  • The Barn
  • The Cat House
  • Greyhound Angels
  • Contact Us
  • Donate