Greyhound Patch died today. 30th May 2017
I really feel sad this evening as the events of the day catch up on me.
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I hadn’t done any filming of the greyhounds looking for homes at Johanna Beumers rehoming kennels in Waltham Abbey since Christmas. So today I drove over to film all the hounds that were desperate for a home. Not as many as usual as the kennels were half full of hounds who were described as holiday dogs, but the only beings on holiday were their owners, while they were incarcerated wondering whether their owners would ever come back for them, but happily, they always do.
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No! What made me sad was a greyhound I only know as “Patch” But really another poor soul who was just another statistic of the greyhound racing Industry.
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Boy Green, a greyhound trainer of many years standing is now suffering from the debilitating disease senile dementia, with a wife who is physically incapable of walking any greyhound or even looking after them comfortably. So the two hounds they had in kennels in their back garden were turned over to Johanna’s rescue this morning.
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These two old greyhounds both nudging 12 had never known any real home life kept in a garden kennel, so it looked like a very comfortable last couple of years were theirs to be had because there would be selfless adopters who would step forward to take them into their own home instead of leaving them confined once more in kennels. Their future looked brighter than it did yesterday I must say. I even went into the paddock to give them both a fussing before I then went into the kennel block to start filming..
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A short time later, out in the paddock poor Patch had collapsed and was lying on the ground in a great deal of distress. The kennel staff rolled him onto a blanket and carried him into a kennel, and then laid him very gently onto the ground with the blanket under him. He seemed to brighten up for a minute, before he was whisked off to Medivets which began a fight for his life. Their prognosis was he had suffered several heart attacks, so it was to be touch and go what the outcome would be?
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The veterinarian’s did everything they could to keep him alive, and thought they had succeeded for a while, before yet another heart attack took its final toll as he slipped away on his journey to wait all alone at the Rainbow Bridge.
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What happened to the old boy? Did all the stress of being taken away from the only home he ever knew play a part, or was he destined to die today anyway? No one really knows, but the only saving grace was at least he died surrounded by people who cared, and not all alone in a garden kennel with no one aware he was dying.
I don’t know why it affects me like it does, because wasn’t he just another greyhound? The answer to that is a resounding No! He wasn’t just another greyhound; he was a dog who deserved more!!!
I only knew you fleetingly “PATCH” but you left yourself indelibly printed on my heart! God Speed xxx.
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I hadn’t done any filming of the greyhounds looking for homes at Johanna Beumers rehoming kennels in Waltham Abbey since Christmas. So today I drove over to film all the hounds that were desperate for a home. Not as many as usual as the kennels were half full of hounds who were described as holiday dogs, but the only beings on holiday were their owners, while they were incarcerated wondering whether their owners would ever come back for them, but happily, they always do.
.
No! What made me sad was a greyhound I only know as “Patch” But really another poor soul who was just another statistic of the greyhound racing Industry.
.
Boy Green, a greyhound trainer of many years standing is now suffering from the debilitating disease senile dementia, with a wife who is physically incapable of walking any greyhound or even looking after them comfortably. So the two hounds they had in kennels in their back garden were turned over to Johanna’s rescue this morning.
.
These two old greyhounds both nudging 12 had never known any real home life kept in a garden kennel, so it looked like a very comfortable last couple of years were theirs to be had because there would be selfless adopters who would step forward to take them into their own home instead of leaving them confined once more in kennels. Their future looked brighter than it did yesterday I must say. I even went into the paddock to give them both a fussing before I then went into the kennel block to start filming..
.
A short time later, out in the paddock poor Patch had collapsed and was lying on the ground in a great deal of distress. The kennel staff rolled him onto a blanket and carried him into a kennel, and then laid him very gently onto the ground with the blanket under him. He seemed to brighten up for a minute, before he was whisked off to Medivets which began a fight for his life. Their prognosis was he had suffered several heart attacks, so it was to be touch and go what the outcome would be?
.
The veterinarian’s did everything they could to keep him alive, and thought they had succeeded for a while, before yet another heart attack took its final toll as he slipped away on his journey to wait all alone at the Rainbow Bridge.
.
What happened to the old boy? Did all the stress of being taken away from the only home he ever knew play a part, or was he destined to die today anyway? No one really knows, but the only saving grace was at least he died surrounded by people who cared, and not all alone in a garden kennel with no one aware he was dying.
I don’t know why it affects me like it does, because wasn’t he just another greyhound? The answer to that is a resounding No! He wasn’t just another greyhound; he was a dog who deserved more!!!
I only knew you fleetingly “PATCH” but you left yourself indelibly printed on my heart! God Speed xxx.
The more I think about Patch and how he died comes back to why did they leave two old greyhounds in one of their paddocks for over two hours on a very warm day? I think Whittingham have much to answer for. The truth is, if I hadn't been there would any one have known after the less than qualified Louise Clark was forced to write the following day; "We don't often do an update" They had too after I had written about Patch.
The person mentioned on this blog was not even at the Kennels at the time of Jeffrey. There was no 'forced' writing. The vets will be happy to confirm.
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