Suzanne - -

Maisie is an absolute credit to you and to GAL. The montage is beautiful - although Murphy doesn't look altogether ecstatic being in it! It is almost impossible to believe that the dog at the start of the sequence is the same dog as the one at the end. We met Maisie for the first time at the John Muir walk on Easter Sunday and she is adorable - Murphy too, of course - and it is hard to believe what she has been through in the past. Shame you can't persuade one of the TV channels to show the montage in one of the ad breaks...........

Well done to GAL and Suzanne for giving Maisie a life free from abuse and misery.  I met Suzanne and her lovely dogs on Saturday at the Rodeo and I was fighting back tears as Suzanne outlined some of Maisie's history.  People can be just so cruel it is beyond belief! 

Joyce

Fantastic montage, and what an achievement for you and for Maisie.

I feel that I'm very much repeating what the others have said.  I'm sitting here with the tears pouring down my face.  It truly is heart-wrenching to see that poor wee soul at the beginning.  It's inconceivable how cruel some people can be.  To my dying day, I will never understand how someone can look into the soulful, brown, trusing eyes of any dog and hurt and abuse them (or any animal for that matter).  Heartless - they must be to be able to inflict that kind of hurt and damage!

What a credit to GAL and you though.  She looks fantastic now and the photos and footage of her are wonderful.  She actually reminds me a bit of my Millie - very similar colouring and face.  Was Maisie at Langbank on that very hot day last summer for the wee show?  There was a Maisie there that won a class, shewas on the mend but had a ways to go.  If so, then I remember pleading desperately with my partner to let me take her home.  What a lucky wee dog though - she has a wonderful home and life now and is obviously thriving and loving every minute. 

Karen

Suzanne, your montage is lovely. Although I know Maisie's history and have seen the pics before, it still hits hard - right there!!
I'm so glad you have Maisie and can re-tell her story to so many.

got this back tonight from the BBC:

Dear Suzanne

Thank you for your e-mail to BBC Information.

I understand that you would like to share your experience will GAL in order to
raise the awareness of the charity.

We receive many hundreds of requests for charity help each year. Because the BBC
is a public corporation, financed by the licence fee, its income must be used
for broadcasting or closely associated purposes. If we were to oblige any one of
the huge number of requests we receive each week, it would set a precedent which
we would not be able to maintain. For this reason, we regret we must turn down
such requests.

Nevertheless, please be assured that I have noted your suggestion and made it
available, through our daily log, to our programme makers and senior BBC
management. We greatly appreciate all correspondence from our audience's and
your suggestion may play a part in future programme making decisions.

I have also forwarded your e-mail onto Scottish Planning department who deal
with possible news stories in Scotland.

May I wish you and Maisie all the very best in the future and thank you once
again for taking the time to share your experience.

Best wishes

Amy Bennet
BBC Information
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/ - World Wide Wonderland

Nicely done montage, and very moving (in more sense than one ). Good luck with the BBC endeavour!

That was a lovely video Suzanne. Well done on your efforts to push Maisie's story to the TV channels. Good luck and keep us updated please. Mabel.

Hi Folks, just to make a quick point here...GAL have an ongoing team of fundraisers who's sole purpose in life is to do exactly what Suzanne has done, it's difficult for an animal charity to get any publicity these days unless a dead dog is produced, the more brutal the death the better.

Through our carefully timed press releases and with the help of our unofficial PR man Steve we've made a few good inroads recently with our relationship with the press, this includes the TV companies, just look back at the launch of our kennel Fund in January and the impact that had in the media. The lesson we've learned with the press is essentially 'less is more', by inundating them with copy and stories the GAL name becomes less focused.

In addition our fundraisers have also embarked on a campaign to write or speak to all the Greyhound related celebs on this planet in an attempt to blag goods and services from them, we're making some inroads in this aswell, the items and services we've managed to get will form some sort of Kennel Fund 'event' in the course of the next few years. People who've already been contacted include Paul O'Grady and the Simpsons people, in fact if memory serves we asked Paul to be a judge at one of our events.

My point here is good work, but, remember the big picture and speak to a GAL committee member first...