I've been looking into fostering greyhounds (I'm not very experienced with dogs but have some experience with greyhounds) and tried to contact two rescue centres near us, here in the East Midlands. The first one, I left our details with them 3 times and after finally managing to speak to the lady in charge of fostering, she said she'd send some forms out. That was 2 months ago and I've heard nothing since. The 2nd rescue place I tried, concentrated more on rehoming greyhounds and I dropped by to see them 3 weeks ago. They asked whether I worked (no), about our garden (a secure one), ages of our children (6, 9 and 12) and whether we had any small animals (no). So after giving them these details, they took our address/telephone number and said they'd ring to arrange a home check. I was more hopeful we might get somewhere with this one as they told me that their kennel was full, they had 60+ dogs on the waiting list and they were having to pay for two dogs to be in a kennel, so thought we were in with a chance and we'd hear back from them fairly quickly. But I've heard nothing and after the 3 attempts with the 1st rescue centre, I don't know whether to keep after them or try somewhere else.
So can anyone point me in the right direction (perhaps a national greyhound organisation) or is there something about us that rescue centres just don't like e.g. lack of experience or DD3 being too young? I realize that a lot of rescue centres are run by busy volunteers but was hoping that if they didn't think we were suitable, they'd tell us rather than just not hearing anything!