This is Annabel (Homebush Annabel) – she joined us on Monday. She’s a great little dog with a few issues but is learning how to live in a house very quickly – she has Vulcan to help her, and they are very good together.

She’s smart, playful and energetic but easily distracted and not really listening or paying attention.

A very handsome little dog.

This is Patch (Opawa Patch) – Danielle calls her Princess Patch 🙂

She is our GAP Christmas foster dog. GAP try to get the all the dogs out of the kennels over Christmas.

Patch is great – very easy. She was very stressed for the first few hours in the house, but is settling in well. Vulcan is a big help, he is very relaxed with her and she follows him around.

Jumping Chino

Chino has been staying with us for a while, and it is very quiet without him around – he certainly fills a house (which is kind of unusual for a greyhound). He’s moved to Masterton, where he will have more room. Hope his new home has high ceilings as well!

We’ll miss him.

Video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxPARqELeTk

Chino is great with children – he’s very sociable and very responsive to attention. People (and children) love that he is quite fluffy – for a greyhound.

This is Chino having a cuddle at the GAP run a couple of weeks ago.

Last night (in the middle of the night) Vulcan and Chino would stampede into the kitchen about every 5 minutes, this continued for quite a while. Eventually Vulcan got bored and stayed on his sofa, but Chino staked out the kitchen and eventually caught this mouse. He’s very persistent.

And smarter than a mouse, apparently.

This is Chino (Mr Chino) who is staying with us for a while. We picked him up on Friday, and he fits right in. He has a few issues but nothing major (so far – behaviour often changes as these dogs settle in and get more confident).

He has a superb race record, earned more than all of the other dogs we’ve fostered put together, and won the Silver Collar in 2012 – he’s a distance runner and has only recently retired, unusual as he’s about 5 years old.

He’s in good shape and looks stunning – very tall and has great poise; very friendly and very interactive.

Doesn’t seem particularly smart – very easily distracted, but Vulcan is pleased to have another dog who can open the back door for him.

Tino at the Martinborough dog run this morning. He made a bit of a fuss when he seemed to have been stung – I didn’t expect to see this in the photo though.

Vulcan has a cousin Lizzie, they play together, but Lizzie is definitely the boss. Even though she can only touch noses with Vulcan by standing on tiptoe on her back legs.

Lizzie will let Vulcan chase her around the yard, but she decides when she’s had enough. And she certainly didn’t want to be left behind when Vulcan left for the next stage of his holiday.

Damon left for his new home on Saturday, and he certainly looked like he will be happy there.

This is Toby (Noble Tobin) who is staying with us for a short while. What a fabulous dog he is – just about perfect. He’s been very well trained and behaves perfectly. Very relaxed and confident, and friendly and interactive with people. Can sit, down and stay. Somebody has invested considerable time in him, and he’ll make an awesome pet for somebody, I hope they appreciate just what they are getting.