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Well this is what happens when you take your 3 Greyhounds up to the GAP kennels on a Monday evening to get their nails trimmed €¦ You come home with 3 Greyhounds in the car with lovely trimmed nails, your...

We have had Jake for quite a while now. He is nearly 6 and he is such a great boy! He now has a new brother Zeke who is two years old, Jake used to get lonely during the day...

Roman previously Hercules (Lucky Lucky Luck) came into GAP in March this year after winning just one of his 32 starts. Assessed as suitable for a home with cats it didn't take long for him to find a home with...

There are just over 200 children at Clarkville School, just north of the Waimakariri river in the South Island. Kieran Sinclair-Lomax (my son, aged 9) and the fabulous Muldoon (Admit Nothing) of Riccarton Market fame (thanks for the borrow Gemma...

Training Tips and Tricks - Part 3 "Stop"

This command is useful in all aspects of your hound's life. We started using it out walking to stop before we crossed the road. But is has had many uses and can...

Pet greyhounds around the country took part in the Great British Greyhound Walk on 22nd June.

The walk, now in its fifth year, is a British event which has gone global. There were ten countries taking part with walks...

Caitlyn had to write a speech for school so she wrote why greyhounds are the best dogs, its quite funny how she sees things:

"You think cats are great, they're not! Greyhounds are the best. Here's why, they are...

We've now had Abbey with us for three months and boy has she slotted into the family perfectly! She's always keen for a play, walk or cuddle when you need one, and her gentle, loving nature is not only the...

Tom is starring on the NZ Life & Leisure facebook page today. My editor thought our readers would appreciate some of his silly pictures and I thought it would be a good chance to give you an update.

He...

We adopted Lottie, our brindle rocket, in March 2013. As many greyhound owners have found, one is simply not enough. By November, we were thinking about the fact that we had room for another retired racer. We had to get...