Lincolnshire Greyhound Trust

A very sad day for LGT with Sam Sam going for an operation at vets and finding out he had severe renal failure so the decision was taken not to bring him round from the anaestethic. Sam Sam RIP

We did a home visit at Bole this evening.

Another quiet day for LGT.

Annie, Controller, Gordon, Lizzie and Sherrie from the Boston kennels were all frontlined today.

Annie, Controller, Lizzie, Richie and Sherrie were all wormed today too.

Kate, a 4 year old Black and White girl was taken to Holbeach vets to be spayed, vaccinated and microchipped while Controller, who had already been castrated before he came to us, went for his vaccination and microchip.

Two new girls Annie and Sherrie were picked up from Norman Cross after coming over from ireland and were taken to Boston kennels.

Kate went after her operation to Gainsborough kennels.

Boris, an 8 year old Blue boy, was rehomed from Gainsborough kennels to couple, also from Gainsborough, who had taken a greyhound from us a few months ago and also had a Jack Russell and a cat.

We had an enquiry and arranged a home visit for Thursday.

The charity had 2 Meet and Greets again today.

The charity had 2 Meet and Greets today.

Winterton Show was attended by Kev & Jane and Sharon. £61.50 was collected.

Tesco's at Gainsborough was attended by greyhounds Bob, Dora, Katie, Lady, Leo, Rosie, Royal, Sasha and Spud while Andy & Jill, Barbara, Carol, Carole & partner, Mandy, Neil and Mr & Mrs Christiansen were the human helpers. £224.44 was collected.

Luke, who is now going to be called Wilf, went from our Boston kennels to couple in Grantham.

Luke, who will be called Wilf in his new Grantham home.

Mossy from the Gainsborough kennels was reserved by couple from East Halton who already have a greyhound from us. He is likely to go to new home within next week or so.

The weekly lottery was won by number 323 Mrs Belcher from Bristol who wins £118.80.

A very quiet day with nothing exciting to report.

Katie from the Gainsborough kennels went to new home today with couple from Newark with a 5 yr old son and a cat.

Katie who went to new home in Newark today.

The interview and feature with Mandy was shown on Yorkshire TV's Calendar programme.

This morning Yorkshire TV sent over a film crew and did a piece to be featured on Calendar either later today or tomorrow.

This afternoon we picked up 2 dogs at Ferrybridge services.

Royal, a 2 year old Blue male went to our Gainsborough kennels while Lark, a 3 year old Black female went to the Lincoln kennel.

Radio Lincolnshire ran the interview about Gordon and Sarah at 7.40am this morning.

This morning Lizzie from the Boston kennels went along to vets for her spaying, booster vaccination and microchip.

The Lincolnshire Echo ran an article on Gordon and Sarah today and the link to article is below

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=156153&command=displayContent&sourceNode=156136&contentPK=17718775&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch

Mandy painted kennels 6 and 10 at the Boston kennels. Kennels 7 to 9 had already been painted!!!

In the afternoon Jo was taken from Gainsborough kennels by couple from Welton and became number 58 for the year and 533 in total.

Jo who went to her new home in Welton today.

We did a home visit on gentleman in Gainsborough this evening.

The people we home visited in Louth last week visited Boston kennels today and chose Jill as their new pet. Jill became number 57 for the year and 532 in total.

Jill who went to new home in Louth today.

Scott Dalton from BBC Radio Lincolnshire came to the Boston kennels today and did an interview about the fact we have Gordon and Sarah in number 10. The interview seemed to go well and will be aired tomorrow morning on the breakfast show.

A photographer from the Spalding Guardian came to Boston kennels today to take pics of Gordon and Sarah who are kennelled together in number 10. (This is topical with the recent change of PM and should get us some good PR)

Couple who we home visited yesterday came to kennels today and took Charlie home. He is number 56 for year and 531 in total.

Charlie who went to new home near Kings Lynn today.

Michael and Maria from our committee came and took some pics of the dogs.

Couple we home visited a few weeks ago went to Gainsborough kennels today and reserved Katie to go to their home next weekend.