Tuesday, 17 October 2023

Rescue dogs

Georgie PURCELL (Northern Victoria) (16:12): Recently I attended the 11th birthday of my office supervisor Frankie the greyhound. Rescued by Amazing Greys, he is now the star of a billboard campaign around the city that promotes these gentle dogs as worth so much more than gambling profits. Also in attendance was Graham Cracker, who I have spoken about before in this place, rescued by my team after a horrific fall at Healesville and literally shipped off to Tasmania to who knows what fate. It was wonderful to see Graham roaching, something that takes traumatised industry greyhounds months to do. Graham has come so far, also thanks to his rescued pug sister Potato. Potato in her old age is carried around in a sling. She has had three surgeries, because flat-faced dogs often have severe breathing difficulties, something I have also raised in here before. Graham’s birth mother Wendy, who he now lives with, could not make it because she has a day job as a therapy dog at a rehabilitation clinic and simply just needs her rest on a Sunday. It is wonderful how the world of rescue brings not only animals together but people too. This is a community that I am so proud to be a part of and will always continue to be. Yeah, the girls, and yeah, the dogs!