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Rescue is a WONDERFUL way to adopt an Italian Greyhound of your own. IGs are so happy to have someone to love them, regardless of their age. There are too many IGs out there looking for homes and we really hope you look into it as an option. One of our own IGs (Gracie, seen here) came from Rescue and we are very happy we adopted her.

Gracie's story is below - so you can see what a great thing rescue volunteers are doing for Italian Greyhounds (and all breeds, really). Gracie is a special needs hound that cost the rescue organization a great deal of money to help. They only asked for the $250 adoption fee from us. That doesn't begin to cover the costs of little rescues like Gracie.

Because Rescue does so much for the hounds, asks only a small fee for adoption and requires that we give these little creatures the good homes they deserve, Piluzo donates 10% of our sales to the Italian Greyhound Rescue Foundation. By donating to the national group, it gives back to Rescue so they can help more cases like Gracie and so many others all over the country, not just our area alone.

About Rescue - Rescue is a service provided for Italian Greyhounds that have been abandoned at animal shelters, taken from abusive homes or surrendered to Rescue due to the death or divorce of the former owner. Occasionally, dogs are turned over to Rescue because the owner can no longer keep the dog and the dog was acquired from a source to which it cannot be returned.

IG Rescue members foster these orphans in their homes, where their health and temperament are evaluated. All dogs are taken for a veterinary check-up: vaccinations are updated, the animal is neutered/spayed and, if necessary, its teeth are cleaned. Each Italian Greyhound is evaluated so that it can be placed in a home suitable to both the dog and new owners.

Your local IG Rescue Representative can located here.
IGs available for adoption are located here.

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Meet Gracie. She's the newest addition to our little pack. We adopted Gracie through IG Rescue when she was 9 months old. She had broken her leg 3 months earlier and was the runt of the litter - a skinny, long legged, 12" tall, 7 1/2 pound girl that is still very breakable, but refused to believe it. Including the breeder, we were her 7th home and finally her last.

Gracie ended up in rescue because of a broken leg at 6 months old. She had been sold by a backyard breeder and then passed around to several homes until she broke her leg. The owner choose surrender Gracie to rescue instead of put her down, due to the cost of repairing her leg. IG Rescue took her in and paid the $3000+ needed for her surgery and rehab. Alice (our rescue rep) fostered Gracie throughout her recovery and the leg healed up nicely because of her dedication.

We brought Gracie home with us to foster for a few weeks. There were many new dogs in rescue and not much space, so rescue volunteers and supporters were helping out with short term foster. We loved little Gracie and considered adopting her, so the stay was a 'test drive' for us. We already had 3 Italian Greyhounds and weren't sure how well a tiny, 'special needs' girl would do with our group. We thought we'd spend time with Grace and then let her go to another family. We tried very hard to talk ourselves out of keeping her. We just didn't want 4 hounds, but Gracie is such a silly, darling little 'special needs' girl that you instantly fall in love with her. She is quite fragile and will be for a while, but she did SO WELL with our pack and we couldn't ignore that.

Through an odd twist of fate, Gracie is our Luca and Pippin's litter mate and she lite

rally fit in the instant she arrived. I brought in her carrier, set it down in the living room and stepped back to let everyone adjust. Luca and Pippin ran up to the kennel and stood looking in, Gracie was glued to the front grate looking out - all had frantically wagging tails. The second I let her out the three stood in a group sniffing and licking each other, tails wagging like crazy. They hadn't seen each other in over 4 months and acted so happy to be together. I wasn't sure if dogs remember each other, but these guys were making an awfully good case for it.

Litter mates Luca and Pippin are very gentle with Gracie (both are huge by comparison), playing loudly without actually moving around much while Gracie "pins" them. Zoe has had pups in the past and treats Gracie like she was one of her pups - licking her and playing gently with her. Everyone has slept in a pile from the first day she arrived, plays together, eats together and everyone has to look Gracie over if she yelps in any way.

We knew after a week that our hounds were Gracie's true pack, but it took another week to finally gave up looking for reasons to let her go. I guess we should have listened to the hounds earlier, huh?

We've had Gracie since mid-August. She's grown 2 inches and gained a 2 pounds and is getting stronger all the time. We kept her name. The people that had her called her Grace because she doesn't have any - and they were right. But she more than makes up for it with who she is. Gracie is happy, utterly oblivious and silly beyond belief...and we wouldn't have her any other way.