This luvable big guy is Elvis.  He came to us as stray and is happy to be in our care and looking for a sponsor and his new forever home!   You can read about Elvis and all of our goldens who are waiting on their forever homes on our Available Goldens pages.  If you can't adopt or foster a golden with G.R.I.N., but would like to help one (or more) of our rescued goldens, you can help us by becoming a sponsor of one or more of these rescued beauties!  As you look through our pages of Available Goldens, you will see that many are sponsored but these goldens still have NO ONE to sponsor them:    Elvis and Gemini.   Can you help us please? Our goal is to have all of our goldens sponsored with one or more sponsors.  A "Golden Sponsorship" is easy and a great way to help some very deserving goldens.  Here's how to become a sponsor.

Read more: Golden Sponsorships- A Special "Golden" Opportunity!

Just a reminder-the Acme Fresh Market Community Cash Back program will end on February 11th.    We need to receive your collected receipts at our PO Box by February 18th so we can count them in our totals.  Please send your receipts antime to us at:  G.R.I.N. Acme Program, P.O. Box 24365, Cleveland, OH  44614.  Thank you so very much for all the receipts we have received so far.   Thanks to Acme Fresh Market Stores for offering such a great program!

Please place Saturday, November 3, 2012 on your calendars for our 8^th Annual Golden Gala.  The new gala location is St. Michael’s Woodside Party Center, located just off Interstate 77 at the Wallings Road exit, only 3 miles south of the I-77/480 interchange.    

The current Gala Committee is very small and we would love to see new G.R.I.N. members help lessen our workload.  Please consider coming to our first Gala meeting on Saturday, February 4^th, 10 AM at the Panera in Macedonia. If you have any questions please contact development@grinrescue.org. Come to the Gala and GRIN with us! More Gala information will be forthcoming, so stay tuned!

G.R.I.N. would like to thank The Pedigree Foundation for their continued support of our adoption program. A grant was awarded to G.R.I.N. in December, 2011 from their Foundation. The Pedigree Brand believes every dog deserves a loving home, to be fed well and to be treated with the love and respect they deserve.  The Pedigree Foundation is a philanthropic organization dedicated to helping dogs in need find loving homes.  Thank you Pedigree Foundation, for partnering with G.R.I.N. in continuing our mission of re-homing Goldens! For more information about The Pedigree Foundation, please visit: http://www.pedigreefoundation.org

As we know, heartworm infection in dogs is an excruciating and fatal condition.  Some months ago, we learned that there was a potential shortage of immiticide, the only medication that exists for killing adult heartworms in infected dogs.  The shortage was due to the non-availability of one of the ingredients, and there is only one immiticide manufacturer.  Merry Anne Szidik investigated the problem and talked extensively with West Park.  They assured her at the time that they understood the shortage was coming, and had laid in an ample supply of immiticide so that they and their patients would not have any problems. Unfortunately, this has not turned out to be the case, and West Park no longer has immiticide.

Read more: URGENT HEARTWORM WARNING!

If you are considering adopting a rescued golden, now is the perfect time to fill out an on-line application to get the process started.  You can get more information on our website under “adoption process” section on the left side menu.   If you cannot adopt a golden at this time, we encourage you to consider becoming a foster home or sponsoring any one or more of our goldens.   We still have goldens waiting on a foster home and we need your help.   Please e-mail us at foster@grinrescue.org if you are interested.  A special golden is looking for you-forever! 

On-Line Application