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News from Cheshire and the North West

Hello again everyone,

It would be very easy to be pessimistic at this very difficult time for us all, but
I will try to be as optimistic as possible as we plan for the next few months. All
our dogs, I am sure, will be delighted that we are able to spend much more time
with them at home and on their walks.

Since writing my piece for the Autumn newsletter we have sadly heard about
the passing of a number of our much loved four legged friends and ambassadors
for Greyhounds in Need. These include Faz, Tolo and Ruby, galgos who all left us
in October 2019 and greyhounds Hotfoot Roger, Dennis, Dinny and Fletcher.
Roger also passed away in October whilst we lost Dennis and Dinny in November
and Fletcher in February of this year.

They are very much missed by their loving families, but their passing has
opened the door for four lucky greyhounds to find their forever homes; Derek
with Nicola and her family, Peggy with Adele, Biddy with Jackie and Phil and
Lucy with Janice and Barry.

We are looking forward to meeting these new arrivals when we are eventually
able to resume our Fundraising and Social Dog Walking events later in the year.

We were hoping to
organise several events
over the Autumn and
Winter months but the
weather was not as kind
to us as we had hoped.
We did manage to meet
up at Marbury Country
Park in November
(photos right) where we
sold Christmas cards and
calendars to a great
turnout of our friends
and volunteers despite
the inclement weather.

We had to postpone
our planned walk at
Hollingworth Lake in
December because it
clashed with a fundraiser
for a local Hospice and
then postpone for a
second time in February 2020 because of the arrival of Storm Dennis.

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