Why everyone should own a greyhound!

Meet and Greet

11-2pm Saturday 3 October

Outside Somerfields supermarket High Street New Malden.

Car parking in Blagdon Road, 5 minutes walk away. There is a park behind the Malden centre in Blagdon Road if needed to exercise the dogs.

If you can bring your greyhound or one from the kennels please contact Denise or Tania on 07746655040

MANY THANKS!

Video of Nonsuch park social walk, September 2009

Its all a bit sureal sometimes- the little book is coming out very soon and there will be a whole launch party thing at the kennels and book signing.......yep I'm freaking out a little. I'm looking at it as extra night at the kennels and not thinking about the rest to much- it just to weird. Anyway homing has been going well at the kennels, including a few dogs from a certain kennels we helped out in the summer . There seem to be fewer bitches around at the moment, this is not due to us homing more of them but a lack of them coming in from trainers- think they are being sent off for breeding?Missy almost went home, she was being considerd by someone and it would have been a wonderful home but nothing came of it. How do I feel about it? Well the selfish part of me is happy she will still be around in the kennels but the more bigger logical part of me is so sad she missed out on a home and will spend another christmas in the kennels? I was helping with the feeding today, I put a bit extra in her bowl, a couple of tripe sticks and bits which I made into a smily face on top of her food. Yeah..... she needs to find a home soon or one of us will need some serious therapy.Been taking other hounds out to "socialise" them with other breeds, I had a little blue girl and she liked to "socialise" in the same style of a football hooligan- charge straight at the other canine in a "comeonethen!" style. Hmm going to need a little more work on this one. Actually she's not that bad and I think we can work on that but we've got one hound that screams when he see's a different breed of dog.How are we going to home that one?I suppose encouraging him to chase everything that was not a greyhound may have been the name of the game for those who trained him but guess they couldn't give a stuff about what would happen to him after racing.He's a blue dog so people will like him for his colour then ask us awkward questions like "Is he good with cats?" and "Will he get on with my Jack Russel?" and we will have to say "Neither will ever trouble you again if you take him home..." Loves people although people made him the way he is, its a messed up world isn't it?

Richmond Park Walk

SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2009

Meet 11.00am at Kingston Gate and walk to Pembroke Lodge for coffee.

Bring your hound or ask Denise if you can bring one of the kennel hounds.

Jane, Poppy, Bob and Nelly

Next Greyhound Social Walk: 10.30 am Sunday 6 September 2009 Nonsuch Park

Come and take your retired greyhound, or a homeless hound from Hersham, for a stroll through Nonsuch Park


We will walk along the mown paths through the meadows to the Mansion House which has a cafe, picnic area and WCs. We'll stay a while for a chat and of course to admire our lovely hounds.

John Gooch the park keeper and owner of retired greyhound Brandy and Ash the lurcher will be joining us (as they did the last time we had a social walk in Nonsuch Park)

Go to the car park located on the big bend on London Road, near Ewell. The car park is marked with a red circle on this map

You will see this monument at the car park entrance:


Please contact the welfare kennels at Hersham if you are able to take a homeless hound out with us.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Strange how life works out, one day you think "I wonder what a greyhound even looks like close up" and a few years down the line you end up on Utube doing this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38r2COGpY5kIf you can't guess which one I am....I'm not telling you!I've been playing in the paddocks with the greyhounds, well no if any of the staff are reading this I've been wood staining the fence diligently. Its hard, I mean you are trying to paint away and there is a naughty greyhound play bowing at you, it would be rude of me not to chase him just a little bit wouldn't it? Rufus showed a total lack of appreciation of my efforts to make his environment a bit smarter by peeing in my paint. So all the fences have are now Culprano "Forest Oak brown"- with hint of wee colour.Madaboutgreys is an amazing photographer, she took a load of pics of my fav' greyhound, Missy with her new collar which I won on an auction for her.http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=madaboutgreys&s=recThe last pic is my favourite, she is smiling, I swear it.Homing has been up and down some going home but some coming back. I don't get so worked up about them coming back now because its much better to have them safe with us. One came back after just a few days and seemed so miserable. A few days later she was back to her normal self, greyhounds are so sensitive aren't they? Makes me laugh when I go home at the end of the day and they thank me for doing a bit of work for them. I'm like, no thank you for giving me purpose and joy in my mundane life.