Special thanks to our other foster families who include Jules and Rob who are fostering Poppy for us; Emma and John who are fostering Sally the galgo; Edith and Ced who fostered Scoot; Jenny who fostered Summer; Jenny and Jim who fostered Susie ; Jo who fostered Barney and Carol who fostered Shana. Although there are many achievements within the branch, we feel that the greatest success story has to be that "Summer" has at last found his perfect forever home with Christine and her galgo, Fasene.  Summer is settling in very well with his new family which also includes 2 cats and has already been to help us at a recent event, his behaviour was impeccable and he was unphased by being surrounded by lots of other dogs as well .  Thank you so very much Christine for adopting this little chap who was so often overlooked because of his past problems and more recently because of his age.  We look forward to seeing Summer at lots more events. We certainly have a busy year ahead with lots of fundraising activities   including 3 fun dog shows and we hope to raise lots of money to assist GIN with their vital work in Spain.  New adopters have expressed their interest in joining in our activities and they will all be made very welcome at the events.  We are planning a couple of new venues for 2009 so please keep up to date by looking at the “Events” page on the GIN website.  A big thank you to all the volunteers for their tombola gifts, home made cakes, dog beds, knitted coats and snoods and all the other donations which you tirelessly provide to help raise funds for GIN.                                      Carol, Sue and Phil   23 We would like to say a special “thank you “ to Sian for all her hard work on our behalf, fund- raising and   rehoming greyhounds in Wales.  Sian kindly took over this work some years ago and we were very grateful.    She is now stepping down to enjoy a well deserved rest.      The photo on the left shows Kia,  one of the many greyhounds Sian and her helpers have homed over the years.     Many thanks Sian from all at GIN ! Fasene and Summer at the Wilmslow   Garden Centre