LAST
BUT BY NO MEANS LEAST..........
Simba all
dressed up, this time with somewhere to
go!
Today saw
the arrival of Simba and Harry, an older
boy and a youngster. It was quite a big
trip as Simba came from the RGOA which is
in the South and Harry from Hall Green up
there in Birmingham. After false starts
on Wednesday and Thursday, Chris managed
to get that little plane up into the sky
and take delivery of two lovely boys.
Firstly let
me tell you a little about Simba and a
little is really all there is to tell.
This 9 year old, although not coming to
share our home, tugs at my heart strings
as he has spent all his life in kennels
and in fact never raced. He has come from
the same awful place as our Gunner was
at. Some of you might remember Gunner, 11
years old when he came to us and spent
all his life in a shed. We only had him a
year but the impact he had on our lives
was just amazing. Hopefully Simba being a
little younger will have a few years and
the awful life experience which he has
witnessed will be just a memory as he
shares his new life with Elaine and Pete
oh and of course Jake the parrot. Elaine
and Pete had a beautiful fawn dog from us
way back in May 2004 but sadly Ben passed
away in August 2009. Both of them felt
that they would like to give an older guy
a home and hopefully Simba will fit the
bill.
Alison
sneaks a cuddle with Simba before handing
him over to new mum Elaine
To think
that this boy will lay for the first time
on a soft duvet, be warm, eat well and go
for a potter in his very own garden and
above all be loved and this is the reason
we do what we do.
On the
other end of the scale we welcome Harry a
2 year old blue brindle. With just a
short career behind him yet another young
dog destined to lay in a kennel 'till
someone came and gave him a chance of a
home. Well in this case it's Linda.
Recently she lost her elderly staffie
cross which she rescued just 3 years ago.
Sadly he passed away just three months
ago. Determined to have a little break -
not!! - Linda came to us a couple of
weeks ago unable to be without a canine
companion.
A slightly
apprehensive Harry upon arrival at Jersey
airport
Harry has
had a couple of false starts a family
took him then decided they didn't want
him after a couple of days all too much
trouble so we hope now that he will have
found his forever home here with Linda.
Harry
leaves the airport with his proud new mum
Linda to start a very new kind of life
It's so
hard to think of dogs in kennels at this
time of the year and with the savage
winter we are experiencing it breaks your
heart that you can't find homes for them
all. We are so pleased that these two
pooches will never have to return to that
life but would ask that, when you are
thinking of maybe getting a dog, that you
consider a rescue, it doesn't have to be
a greyhound (although that would be
great!) but remember....
UNTIL THERE
ARE NONE ADOPT ONE
Thanks once
again to our pilot Chris for getting the
guys back safe and sound. To Pat for
bringing Harry down to Steve for getting
Simba to the airport and Julie from RGOA
for advising us.
Well that
really is it for the year - maybe - still
haven't got my oldie!!!!
WE ARE
PLEASED TO REPORT THAT THE KENNEL THAT
SIMBA ORIGINALLY CAME FROM AND THAT ALSO
HOUSED GUNNER AND INDEED ECCLES FOR ALL
THOSE AWFUL YEARS HAS BEEN CLOSED DOWN
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