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Paws in the Park, Upper Hutt 2014

We managed a good walk through the bush at Tunnel Gully, just north of Upper Hutt, and a play on the agility equipment before the weather closed in! Click an image below to view full size pics of Nick, Brenda, Bully and Jorja showing that greyhounds will give anything a go once!

Snowflake’s Blog Part Three

Snowflake is training to be a disability dog. She currently lives in Auckland with her foster carers Vicki and Simon who help her write her regular blog posts explaining what she’s up to. Here is her third post! I love my bed! Sometimes Ada likes to come and share my bed with me. Two in […]

Sneak Preview of our Hound Parade

This year we made our National Appeal even more exciting by giving the week a fashion theme! We were inspired by the Trussardi hounds and, as we know our owners love dressing their dogs up, we decided to run a fashion competition! Hayley (Denniston Rose) models a patterned silk scarf We’ve received some absolutely adorable photos which […]

Greyhounds as Pets at Art Deco, Napier 2014

Well folks, we’ve survived another Art Deco weekend. As usual we took part in the Gatsby Picnic on Sunday afternoon and as usual it was an amazing way to pass the time on such a beautiful day. This year, for us in particular, two things were different. We took 4 Hounds with us! It was […]

Update on Rihanna (Ruby – Cherry Tree Lane)

This beautiful blue brindle bundle of bounce came into our lives in August after my partner Tom decided we should get a mate for our existing girl and wanted one this colour and female.  We were told to get a male mate as they got along better, but we have had no problems at all […]

Update on Tessa (Jessie)

We have now had Tessa (Jessie) for about 3 months, when we first got her we thought of her as a Tired Tessa gracious old lady, well she was 9 ½.  Little did we know once her personality came out just what a mischievous rather than gracious wee thing, she would turn out to be. […]

Lola (Kinetic Flyer) Part 6 – Settling into her new role.

My foster mum Bec dropped me off to live with my new whanau on 14 November 2013.  It was an Me with Bec at my new ‘forever’ home. It has lots of space to run. exciting (and tiring) day.  I got to meet my new canine room mate Rica, a German Shepherd who came with […]

Update on Storm (Cheeky – unraced)

Just wanted to let you know how much we love our beautiful greyhound! She has been with us now for 3 months and we can’t imagine life without her.  The first couple of weeks she wore her ‘tail thong’ (tail wrapped tightly under bottom) but every day her tail seems to get higher and higher […]

The latest from Snowflake, our disability dog in training

Ada, my Husky friend, and I went on holiday for the Christmas and New Year period. We had a great time away staying with friends and family! We both wish you a happy New Year and hope that your Christmas and New Year were wonderful too! Under the tree Ada likes to go swimming. I […]

Update on Skyla (Hot Pal)

First of all I would say that I was only ever incidental in the dog equation.  My Wife (Christine) and Son (Daniel) were completely responsible in acquiring a Greyhound, although I was present about 5 years ago when Daniel was only 8 or 9 insisted that we adopt a Greyhound. We had run into a couple […]