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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...

Our latest fundraising auction is now open for bidding. A fantastic handmade faux fur coat.

Don't miss out....get your bid in now!

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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...

Do you know my greyhound, Harley, aka as the laziest greyhound in the Southern Hemisphere? Yes, he is the one who is famous for nibbling 27 plastic ballpoint pens to pieces, for swallowing my $3000 hearing aid before I had...

TRAINING TIPS AND TRICKS - PART 2 - "LEARNING SELF CONTROL" & "Leave It"

Written by Bec Conole

This post follows on from last months and again requires the use of a marker word (yip,yes, etc) or a clicker....

Training Tips and Tricks - Part 1 - "First Things First"

In order to train your hound anything you need his attention and interest.

This is one of the first things I did with my hounds. It is quick...

This fantastic tee shirt is now being auctioned as a fundraiser on Trade Me.

Front of tee shirt

This from the tee shirts designer:

In my Textiles Technology class last year, one of our assignments was...

Through our collaboration with GAP, Kotuku Foundation Assistance Animals Aotearoa (KFAAA) personnel have been immensely impressed with GAP's wonderfully diverse and dedicated community, united by the goal to realise all that is great about Greyhounds.

This is a particular...

We changed his name to Zouga - from a Wilbur Smith novel - it is the name of a swiftly flowing river. It didn't take him long at all to learn to respond to this. We live at Ohope Beach...

It seems only fair that we (the blog updaters) put an update on our own dogs, so here is what the boys have been up to.

We (my sister and I) decided to adopt A greyhound, after a bit...