Maggie
Well Maggie is certainly enjoying life with her new chums. Despite her beautiful looks Maggie had a long wait for her forever home so it is great to see her looking so happy !
Maggie is a dark brindle greyhound who arrived from Ireland over a year ago. No-one was interested in rehoming her, she did not relate well to strangers and so was slow to come to the front of her kennel to say hello. Maggie improved when a male greyhound or lurcher was kennelled with her, but sadly they moved onto to their new homes and yet again Maggie was left on her own. Then we had an enquiry about the three legged greyhound in Ireland, Lloyd, from some people in Lincolnshire. By then, Lloyd was already scheduled to go to the Isle of Man to his new home, so Maggie was mentioned as another dog desperately needing a home.
These people have three other greyhounds, one three legged, and all have had problems so seemed keen to take on Maggie. Nothing much happened for a while as they were on holiday, then we had the problem of transporting her as stress-free as possible on the long journey from devon to Lincolnshire. Eventually in a last attempt to find her forever home, we decided to pay for transport. Maggie was collected in the evening and then the person transporting her set off early in the morning around 4 am to avoid the heat. Maggie arrived at her new home at around 8.30 in the morning. This is the email we received from her new owners. Then an update on her progress.
Email 1:
Maggie was delivered, safe and sound, at 8.30 this morning. She’d obviously had a good journey, because she didn’t want to get out of the van! She was quite scared, so we let her off the lead in the garden and haven’t seen much of her since. Our lot welcomed her, but have now lost interest when she won’t associate with them.
Since Paul left, she’s been keeping well away from us in the undergrowth – if she hadn’t just had a bath and is very fragrant, I wouldn’t know where she was, but I have a nose like a bloodhound. She will approach the dogs if they seek her out, but she won’t come near John or me. She has one favourite spot and has settled down there, so I’ve decided to leave her at home today (we were going to take her and another to the Patch this afternoon for a good run). If she doesn’t come out by late afternoon, I think I’ll try and flush her out towards John, and then we’ll take her on a short lead walk up the road so she can get her bearings. She’s obviously going to need work, although apparently she was quite different with Paul last night.
It’s an ideal day here as it’s sunny and quite warm, although not hot, and she’ll be fine just sitting under the shrubs for the time being, until curiosity gets the better of her. It is, however, very private and enclosed, which is a good thing.
Email 2:
Just to let you know that Maggie is now starting to settle. I had to drag her in from her nest under the shrubs (she’d slipped her collar by that time!), by this time it was going up to 7pm. I took her for a short walk on her own up the road, and after that (and having read all her e-mails) she came in and settled as though she’d always been here. I was intending to keep her in, apart from walking, until bedtime, but Faune let her out in the garden. By this time, she’d had her tea and she’s not daft, she came straight back in, in case there was more to eat, so they all polished off the remainder of a bag of doggie sausages and now she’s watching ‘A touch of Frost’. Well, SHE hasn’t seen them all a dozen times before, anyway, even if we have.
She had a good night (downstairs) and has now made it – easily – upstairs. She’s with us all the time now, although she’s wary of John. Makes you wonder what went on in Ireland
