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Mimi

rob — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:05:14 +0000

Greyhounds in my Garden

rob — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:36:39 +0000

Milo and Mimi spending a few hours in my garden

GRWE @ Knowsley Flowershow August 2009

rob — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:19:34 +0000

I took this at the Knowsley Flower Show on Sun 9th August 2009 where the GRWE had an awareness stand to promote the charity and help look for homes for these wonderful hounds. If you’ve ever considered getting a rescue pet, I would highly recommend a rescue greyhound!

Here’s a wee gallery of some other photos taken on the day…

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Mimi & Milo B&W

rob — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:46:02 +0000

This is one of my absolute favourite photos of Mimi and Milo

A day in the life of a greyhound…

rob — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:01:10 +0000

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Dog database…

rob — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:55:00 +0000

Today El Reg covered this story about the The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals pushing for a national database of all dogs and for dogs to be chipped with the owner information. For the most part I’m not exactly for any kind of Big Brother national database, but this I think is a part of a really good initiative.

After taking in a rescue greyhound which has obviously had a terrible ordeal at the hands of some very cruel owners I’m all for this scheme and would gladly participate. It’s exactly because of the way that ex-racer greyhounds are treated in this country that I would be a strong supporter of this database, once racing greyhounds have lived out their racing career for the most part they’re just seen as an unwanted, disposable commodity which has no further value or monetary worth and are quickly abandoned. The fewer others are lucky enough to be used to stud or breed – but even after they’ve lost this value they’re seen as being useless and disposable.

A scheme such as this may help reduce the abandonment and mis-treatment of retired greyhounds as well as reducing overall mistreatment of the species.