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2025 MEET & GREETS

Come meet our available Greyhounds on

Saturday January 18, 2025
 at PetSmart on 
Morrell Road in Knoxville, TN from 12:00 PM
until 2:00
PM.  We hope to have a few recently
retired girls and boys for you to meet in
a
ttendance

Saturday  February 8, 2025
We will be PetSmart on 
Morrell Road in Knoxville, TN from 12:00 PM until 2:00 PM.  We hope to have a few recently retired girls and boys for you to meet in attendance.  

Saturday February 22, 2025
With weather permitting, we will gather some of the available Greyhounds and enjoy some wonderful BBQ at Phil's Dream Pit, 534 Eastern Star Rd, Kingsport, TN 37663.  Come and enjoy a social event with Greyhounds and friends.

Saturday   March 8, 2025
We will have our retired fosters at PetSmart on Morrell Road in Knoxville, TN from 12:00 PM until 2:00 PM.  We hope to have a few recently retired girls and boys in attendance for you to meet

Saturday   April 12, 2025
We will have our retired fosters at PetSmart on Morrell Road in Knoxville, TN from 12:00 PM until 2:00 PM.  We hope to have a few recently retired girls and boys in attendance for you to meet.

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Saturday April 26, 2025

Gypsy Circus Taproom, 2645 Fort Henry Dr, Kingsport,

TN from 1:00 to 3:00.  Come meet some of our available

for adoption Greyhounds.

Saturday May 10, 2025
We will have our retired fosters at PetSmart on Morrell Road in

Knoxville, TN from 12:00 PM until 2:00 PM.  We hope to have

a few recently retired girls and boys in attendance for you to meet.

Saturday, May 18, 2025
GRFT Spring Bash will be at 

Laurel Run Park—364 Laurel Run Park Rd, Church Hill, TN, Pavilion 10
From Johnson City, about 45 minutes/From Knoxville, about 90 minutes

What to expect: Catered Lunch, Silent Auction, Live Auction, Games, Memorial, Companionship and fun!

Catering by PHIL’S DREAM PIT. Lunch includes chicken and pulled-port BBQ,

two side dishes, and dessert. Tickets required. **Bring your own drinks!**

Advance tickets: $12 Adults, $8 Children 10 and under. $50 family special.

Checks must be received by Wednesday, May 14 to receive this price.

We’ll have tickets ready for you at the park.
Day of Event: $15 Adults, $10 Children 10 and under.

To purchase advance tickets, mail check payable to GRFT to Anita DeAngelis,

162 Blue Springs Rd., Elizabethton, TN 37643



Saturday  June 14, 2025   
We will have our retired fosters at PetSmart on Morrell Road in

Knoxville, TN from 12:00 PM until 2:00 PM.  We hope to have

a few recently retired girls and boys in attendance for you to

meet.

Saturday, July 12, 2025  
Our Meet and Greet for September is changed to

the first Saturday.  We will resume our normal 2nd

Saturday in October.  Come meet the new retirees

from Australia.  PetSmart, Morrell Rd, Knoxville, TN

from 12:00 until 2:00.

Saturday,  August 9, 2025   
We will have our retired fosters at PetSmart on Morrell Road in

Knoxville, TN from 12:00 PM until 2:00 PM.  We will have a few

recently retired girls and boys in attendance for you to meet.

Saturday,  September 6, 20254
Our Meet and Greet for September is changed to

the first Saturday.  We will resume our normal 2nd

Saturday in October.  Come meet the new retirees

from Australia.  PetSmart, Morrell Rd, Knoxville, TN

from 12:00 until 2:00

Saturday, October 11, 2025 
We will have our retired fosters at PetSmart on 
Morrell Road in

Knoxville, TN from 12:00 PM until 2:00 PM.  We will have a few

recently retired girls and boys in attendance for you to meet.

Saturday, November 8, 2025 
We will have our retired fosters at PetSmart on Morrell Road in

Knoxville, TN from 12:00 PM until 2:00 PM.  We will have a few

recently retired girls and boys in attendance for you to meet.

Saturday, December 6, 2025 
We will have our retired fosters at PetSmart on Morrell Road in

Knoxville, TN from 12:00 PM until 2:00 PM on the first

Saturday in December.  We will have a few retired girls and

boys in attendance for you to meet.

 

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas.  Hope to see you in 2026.


  

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The Knoxville Meet & Greets are at PetSmart on Morrell Road in Knoxville, TN from 12:00 until 2:00.  

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Come meet the available Greyhounds as well as Greyhounds that have settled into their forever homes.  Talk with the GRFT Reps and the adopters.  

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JD'S TICKED OFF

Jodi was adopted by Janis and Mike on January 1, 1999.  She was instrumental in the formation of GRFT.  She will always be missed and remembered as the one that introduced so many to the world of Greyhounds.

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