Visiting the vet the other week with a guinea pig who thought it could fly, found out it couldn’t and ended up with a broken leg (now healed thankfully), I overheard a conversation in the waiting room between the receptionist and the owner of a greyhound pup. The owner was there because her pup had [...]
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Greyhounds and their delicate digestion!
Posted in Greyhounds, tagged adopted greyhounds, digestion, dog food, Greyhounds, James Wellbeloved, lamb and rice, retired greyhounds on April 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
How to calm a greyhound…
Posted in Greyhounds, tagged adopted greyhounds, Greyhounds, retired greyhounds on April 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
….If anyone knows the answer to this please let me know! My girls are 5 years old now, they’ve been with me since they were about 16 months old and you would think I would have found a way by now. I don’t mean that they are in a perpetual state of excitement, bounding around [...]
Itchy Fingers and Happy Tails
Posted in Garden, Greyhounds, tagged adopted greyhounds, allotment gardening, allotments, gardening, greyhound injuries, Greyhounds, happy tail, home produce, retired greyhounds, spring on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have one and one of my greyhounds has the other…I think I have developed this as some sort of a gardeners’ syndrome! The sun is shining but the frost is lying heavily on the ground this morning and I have itchy fingers just waiting to plant! my first early potatoes are chitting away merrily in the spare room and I am counting down the days until I can safely judge the chance of a last frost to have passed. My carrot seeds are calling to me and if I just had a pound coin for the trolley, I would go and get some compost for them as they are to be grown in bags this year.
Pack Doughty – the greyhound unit
Posted in Greyhounds, tagged Greyhounds, rescue animals, scottish borders on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think ‘my girls’ warrant a mention right at the start of this blog. My girls are otherwise known as Sky and Jet, they are 5 year old rescue greyhounds who have been with me since they were 16 months old. Left to starve by their racing owners, they were taken in by the Dumfriesshire [...]
