Southeastern Greyhound Club 5K race fundraiser.

Last Saturday we spent a few hours in Kennesaw, GA to support the runners in the third annual SEGC 5K fundraiser. The race brings in much needed dollars to fund the effort to rescue retired racing greyhounds. This time of year is particularly important, since the tracks close for the winter and retire more dogs than usual. We want to be able to help as many as possible find their forever homes.

We registered our Donna as a "Running Mate" - runners were assigned to a hound so that those unfamiliar with greyhounds could learn more about the breed as pets. Donna was lucky enough to have two of her human runners win their category, so got to have her picture taken with them.

Our daughter participated as a runner and earned a second place medal in her age category. We are so proud of her for being willing to help the cause and for doing so well.

Here is the overall winner with Donna, and our daughter posing with Donna too. Two pretty girls together!

Give a greyhound a new home for Christmas

Greyhounds are the best! They are wonderful, gentle, sweet natured, beautiful, thoroughbred dogs who love nothing more than a soft place to lay their heads. No, they do not require any more exercise than any other breed and they do not have to run. That doesn't mean they don't love to run given the chance.

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A walk in the park plus ice cream.

It was such a beautiful day, we took the dogs for a walk in Webb Bridge Park. There is a pond there. Knowing that Donna likes to paddle, we took her to the waters edge. She immediately waded in and next thing was up to her neck in water. Poor thing looked rather surprised. When we looked closely, we saw that they have a ledge of stones under the water that drops off. Not immediately visible especially with sunglasses on.
Afterward, we all wanted ice cream, so went to a new place recently opened by friends of friends. It's called "Ice Cream Social," on 141 just west of 400. Delicious coffee ice cream with chocolate pieces for me and the hubby, and vanilla for the pups. The pups' wasn't free like at Brusters. 

Here's a picture of Donna on a different day showing how much she likes the water. Unfortunately it had rained. And by the time we got home, the inside of the van looked like it had been given a mud pack spa treatment!