TRAINING TIPS AND TRICKS – PART 2 – “LEARNING SELF CONTROL” & “Leave It” Written by Bec Conole This post follows on from last months and again requires the use of a marker word (yip,yes, etc) or a clicker. To be successful with this sort of training you need to remember that Every time you […]

Training Tips and Tricks –  Part 1 –  “First Things First”  In order to train your hound anything you need his attention and interest. This is one of the first things I did with my hounds. It is quick and fun plus it gets their brains working. This activity requires the use of a marker […]

Through our collaboration with GAP, Kotuku Foundation Assistance Animals Aotearoa (KFAAA) personnel have been immensely impressed with GAP’s wonderfully diverse and dedicated community, united by the goal to realise all that is great about Greyhounds. This is a particular synergy with our endeavours, since we were established in essence to assist those in our community […]

This fantastic tee shirt is now being auctioned as a fundraiser on Trade Me. Front of tee shirt This from the tee shirts designer: In my Textiles Technology class last year, one of our assignments was to produce a design for a garment that promoted a business or organization. Our teacher told us that we […]

It seems only fair that we (the blog updaters) put an update on our own dogs, so here is what the boys have been up to. We (my sister and I) decided to adopt A greyhound, after a bit of research, viewing the Gap Syd and the Couch website and from visiting the Pet Expo […]

We changed his name to Zouga – from a Wilbur Smith novel – it is the name of a swiftly flowing river. It didn’t take him long at all to learn to respond to this. We live at Ohope Beach in the Eastern Bay of Plenty and every morning and evening we are walking on […]

My favourite toy is Monkey. Here is a picture of me; I love snuggling into my bed and falling asleep cuddling Monkey. In bed with Monkey My foster parents are landscaping our front section. They have done lots of digging which I wish I could help with, but my foster parents say I am not […]

Jake has been with us over two years now and what a perfect boy he is! We do loads of beach walks and runs in the park, FUN, and on Mondays we even meet up with a few hound friends and go walking up a big hill, usually there are around 5 dogs :-)!! Recently Jake […]

My fiancé and I received Snozz at the beginning of January this year. We found that he had loads of personality from the moment we brought him home and we are still learning about his quirks. sitting for dinner! We soon discovered that he loves his soft toys. He even goes as far as stealing […]

Hello, my name is Lily (Sweet Ways), and I’m a 2 year old black and white greyhound.  I have recently come through the wonderful GAP programme, via lovely Kaye in Cambridge and then gorgeous Ginney in Te Aroha, who was my foster Mum. I have now been in Whangarei,  the winterless north for 2 months […]