Hello it's Joe and Liz here with a tail or two about the 6 greyhounds we have fostered so far from Bothwell. It goes back over a year now and we started off with a lovely black girl called Emma who we had for just a few days and she now has a nice new home. Next up was Elvis who is a cracking black greyhound who again we had for just a few days and got our hearts racing as he slipped his lead one day for about a minute but it seemed like an hour! He is now living down in Ayrshire. Jake was next ( a dark brindle boy ) who we were told hates other dogs but actually went to a family with another dog.Suzy was a beautiful brown and white girl who stole our hearts. She was handed in to Bothwell as a result of a marriage breakup and we thought of how we could keep her but due to work commitments it was impossible to keep her. However we knew that as a result of being female,housetrained and beautiful that she wouldn't be in Bothwell very long and so it proved. Vernon was next and he is a tan coloured lurcher who we met up with at the Easter collar parade actually. Finally there was Rowan who didn't have a name at the time we took him home but  we came up with the name one evening and we thought it suited him. He was a great dog and again we wanted to keep him but after a couple of near misses he found a home with Denise in Hamilton. He was at Bothwell for ages and how the great Scottish public could keep on bypassing such a wonderful,placid,gentle housetrained dog such as him was beyond us. It is getting harder to foster dogs now as we have 5 guinea pigs who have the run of the living room with us and we both work as well but doing it was a very rewarding and sometimes heartbreaking thing but I would still recommend it to people because these dogs need us and we need them.