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Isabella: from the prolific and generally very successful 'Honcho' greyhound bloodline but she was never a racer & lived 4+ years in rescue before we got her. Lovely personable, gregarious girl, institutional life must have been tough on her. She's very much my dog, loves me to bits, is very food driven and quite a diva with the others at mealtimes. The picture is her 'I see you have a biscuit, where's mine' face.
Barnstoneworth: A Galgo (spanish greyhound) a breed much abused and brutalised in their native Spain by a despicable farming/hunting industry & equally despicable officialdom that continues to let it happen. He had a very hard life before we had him & it's taken a lot of patience and care over 7 years to calm him down & socialise him to people and hounds. It is such a shame he was so battered down as there is a lovely, inquisitive, friendly dog in there, he's still jumpy & nervous and getting increasingly crotchetty befitting the old man that he is, not sure on his age but they reckoned he was 5-7 when caught off the street, so that makes him 12-14 now.
Neville : bit of a mish mash, mainly lurcher, smattering of German Shepherd & maybe something else. Young, chirpy and everyones friend, he's either sparko or going at full tilt, no half measures with him. He has a dodgy leg and was amongst the longest serving residents on sales row at Manchester Dogs Home, because of his potential medical needs, we took him on foster initially, weeks before that block burned down with the dogs inside it. He seems to have had a fraught previous life, he doesn't like raised voices or conflict at all and is very wary of emergency service sirens. He likes watching telly, particularly other animals on it, and will go and look round the back of it if they go off screen.
Annie, Nancy, Dorothy & Gladys (our 4 grannies names) on their walkabout in the garden while their coop and enclosure gets its weekly top to tail clean.
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