Hi Folks,can life suck any more than it already does for our gentle hound friends,three weeks ago a friend of ours was asked to get rid of a lovely three year old fawn girl who had gone a little lame,our friend could not keep the girl but made arrangements for her to go to kennels,now we know only too well how many doggies GAL are trying to help at the moment so Eddie and I decided to take responsibility for this wee girl and give her shelter here for as long as needs be,imagine the scene earlier on today. white van arrives at the house and we meet the really nice people who agreed to help transport the dog to us,the driver of the van says he's around the racing fraternity a lot and the way they talk about the dogs is absolutely terrible,he says they only care about money,not the dogsthe other guy who is from the kennels tells us that they had also moved two dogs to another rescue before coming to us,two black boys ,safeafter a chat we go to get the wee fawn girl out of the van,van door opens and there in front of us is not one but two little girls,the second girl is a beautiful blue and white baby she doesn't look very old at all,both are very friendly,affectionate and don't seem bothered about being in a strange place,now get the tissues outI couldn't help but make a fuss of the both of them they were just so lovely,Eddie came to have a quick look before popping into the house for a minute,so I'm getting ready to get the fawn girl out of the van I asked where the other wee girl was going and nobody really wanted to say ,so I asked again,it turns out that she was on her way to be put to sleep after the fawn girl had been dropped off with us,the wee girl was just no good on the track and her owner left her at the kennels with the fee to put her to sleepthe kennels had no space so they didn't have a lot of choice,and as she didn't belong to them it was difficult,Icould see the guy was dreading itwell you can imagine how I felt, Eddie came out of the house and before they knew it both wee girls were in a kennel together safe and soundthey both deserve a second chance and we are determined to see they get it thank god they came here first,we were left with a nice donation to get them started and six bottles of wine.!!the guy from the kennels called to see how they had settled in and to thank us again for taking both of them,he said he felt bad about us taking them both as we were only meant to take the one but we assured him that he shouldn't worry,theres no way we would let the other one be put to sleep,so Sacha and Sherry are fed,warm,safe and happy but it could have been so different. Rachel