Who's a pretty boy then?

Morning,

Here are a few piccies of the new recruit. This was this morning after a good run in the Cornard Country park. I just stuck the camera in his face and he responded by posing and then licking the lens... bugger.


As you can see he has a little dark line from the corner of his eye towards his ear. It looks like he is wearing mascara...


And this is where he got fed up with the camera in his face so he stuck his hooter in the lens and smeared the whole thing with slobber, nice one!


Sofar it is going very well with him. We haven't noticed any kind of behaviour that we can't cope with. He seems a little shell shocked but that is to be expected, he has never lived in a house. Stairs are still beyond him but hey, who says that is a bad thing... Mickey used to storm up the stairs and jump in our bed on saturday and sunday mornings... and when a greyhound gets in, he will command the whole bed, or at least as much as he can spread himself out over...

The new recruit is eating well, he seems to like most of what we put in front of him. Last night he had a treat, we had a Chinese Takeaway as our kitchen was out of commission (See previous posting...) and he got the remains. My god did he wolf that down. Another greyhound that loves Chinese...

We are enjoying the walks a lot, its good for us to get some exersize again. The summer is over here and we are slowly slipping into autumn so all the trees are starting to turn and the weather is getting colder in the morning. Sometimes it is a bit strange walking in a field where I used to walk with Mickey and now I'm there with this brown thing... I guess it is going to take some time for us to get used to the new recruit.

We have him strictly on the lead at the moment. We have no idea what will happen when he gets let off for the first time. That will have to wait until we have build some more trust with him. Especially when there are small dogs around we stick the muzzle on him just to make sure he doesn't snap at anything.

So all is well for the moment, we owe a lot to the people from the Ipswich branch of the Retired Greyhound Trust, they have been great.

Cheerio,

Alex.