We never forget the hounds that we have loved and lost and once the sadness at losing them eases, it really helps to make a tribute to your special hound and record your precious nemories forever and the happy times you shared. Chris recently lost his beautiful greyhound girl, Annie, (was ‘Showboat Annie’) and wanted […]
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to everyone who helped make our WGW Valentine’s Coffee Morning such a success, raising an amazing £1,450.24. We are so grateful to Sharon, Stella, Anneka, Blaise and Rita for organising and running the food and drinks and WGW Shop stall. We really appreciate the array of home-made cakes from all you fabulous cake-makers and of
Sophie has done a great video of Maurice: Maurice seems a friendly boy, who walked nicely and had some sweet quirky traits you’ll see. Underlyingly he is anxious so will need a confident parent walker.
Some tips on how to work with a greyhound who stops when out walking.
Top Tips – Stopping shouldn’t be a show stopper Read More »
WGW is invited back to this fun event, which usually has somewhat better weather than the other racedays we attend! Please let Carol know if you are interested in helping with a kennel hound – Tel: 01932 251894. Or if you need more information about the event then please contact Julie Higham on juliehigham1@live.co.uk or
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Volunteers Jan and Graham took 8 year old kennel hound Leo, who is looking for a home – on holiday to Scotland for Christmas. This video shows how he got on, where he went, walked and stayed. Leo was in a home for some years but been in kennels for a while now and overlooked
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Once again we had a busy and enjoyable day at Kempton Park, with a friendly and generous crowd. The greyhounds were, as ever, their own best advert, taking everything in their stride, all the attention from racegoers of all ages, and looking gorgeous in their Christmas finery. I must mention the “posse” especially. We had
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As Christmas fast approaches, we thought you would enjoy this photo story of ‘Hope’. For those of you not familiar with her story, ‘Hope’ was a female lurcher pup abandoned at our kennels on the last day of September during our ‘Thank you to all our Supporters’ Party’. She was extremely emaciated and was clearly on
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A Christmas Wish On behalf of Wimbledon Greyhound Welfare, we wish all our supporters and hounds everywhere a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. A huge thank you for all you do to help us help the hounds, including making up such amazing Christmas dinners for our homeless hounds. Thank you all for
We adopted Spring in November 2020 from Wimbledon Greyhound Rescue. She was a loving, kind, and gentle girl and we are very sad that we did not have longer with her. Spring quickly adapted to her new life in retirement. She enjoyed her walks around the local area but seemed happiest when she was snuggled
Spring – April 2016 – November 16th 2024 Read More »
