Poor, Poor Jeffrey.

I used to do a lot of greyhound walking for the greyhounds waiting for their forever homes at Whittingham Greyhound Rescue. It was a nice way to spend a Sunday walking the hounds. However, something happened at Whittingham I found absolutely disgraceful, so much so I never went back to the kennels to walk anymore hounds because of what happened to a Black and white girl called Jeffrey.

It started when some idiot put her in a kennel with a nasty male greyhound that then attacked her. By the time help came she had a plethora of tears all over her body. She was in a very serious state, but it gets worse.

A professional greyhound trainer by the name of John Walsh took a pair of scissors and went to cut off living skin, but I stepped in to stop him. He was not impressed. The be all and end-all was one of the volunteers made her position be known by taking  Jeffrey straight to the vets at Wanstead for immediate veterinary care. Fortunately Jeffrey recovered after some time and was then lucky to find a home with a lovely lady in Harlow, Essex. I dread to think what would have happened to her at the hands of Walsh and Whittingham if Pauline Stevens hadn’t stepped in to come to her aid.

Because of veterinary costs some greyhounds at Whittingham are slow getting the medical help they deserve, but that was the pits by Walsh. I still did the filming and attended open days, but what happened to Jeffrey certainly scarred me.