On Tuesday 29th July Planned Giving and Bequest Coordinator, Victoria Munro, along with her hound Lily, visited the Eventhorpe Retirement and Rest Home in Hamilton. Like most things to do with the greyhounds – one is never enough and so to round out the party, Victoria and Lily were joined by local owners Irene with […]

Josie arrived  from Chrishchurch GAP to her new home in Kapiti last November with a Trainer who was transporting racing hounds. As advised I left her outside to explore while I kept an eye on her. Within minutes I realised she wasn’t around, she had busted through our flimsy barrier! With my heart in my […]

Training Tips and Tricks Part 5: Sit! I have mixed views on ‘sitting’ greyhounds and I will explain why. As most of you know we are a two greyhound family (well four for another five days but that’s another story!). One of our hounds ‘sits’ really easily – Blondie, the other does not – Priceless. […]

Having had one hound, Riley, we soon fell in love with him and as the months went by, we started to think about getting another hound€¦.. “one day€.   However, Christmas 2013 came along and we were invited to visit Diniece and Rob Turner who were fostering Hannah at the time.  As we entered their home, […]

Blue joined our family in May of this year after a marriage failure in her previous home.  Although I was aware she had lost a couple of toes in her racing career I was surprised to see she had a constant limp.  She slowly adjusted to life in our house but displayed some incredibly stubborn […]

Cortez has been part of our family for over two years now.  He is well and truly enjoying his retirement so much that even he and our cat Lucy are friends!  He has developed a real cheeky side, this involves taking our daughter, Emily’s, soft toys outside or onto his bed when we have left […]

TIPS AND TRICKS PART 4: STOP – AND MOVING ON The sky is the limit with training. Time, consistency and patience are all that’s needed. I recently read an awesome quote that is so true: “it takes just as much time to train a dog to behave badly as it does to train a dog […]

Patch was the 12th dog into GAP and back in 2006 we had lots to learn! Patch was one of our early challenges. He was an ex-hurdler, and while many greyhounds are hopeless jumpers, Patch could easily clear a 6 foot fence! Fortunately he was cat friendly. We placed him with an American couple who […]

Well this is what happens when you take your 3 Greyhounds up to the GAP kennels on a Monday evening to get their nails trimmed €¦ You come home with 3 Greyhounds in the car with lovely trimmed nails, your trimming money still in your pocket, with a foster Greyhound as well, so 4 happy […]

We have had Jake for quite a while now. He is nearly 6 and he is such a great boy! He now has a new brother Zeke who is two years old, Jake used to get lonely during the day and cry but now he just loves to be at home with his brother in […]