Volunteers & Friends of PG Inc.
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion"
-- Unknown

Happy Tails...

Over the last six months, PG volunteers and adopters have have stepped up to the plate twice and taken in 14 greyhounds from two separate events.  Both times, they knocked it out of the park!  On a rainy Memorial Day weekend, five dogs arrived from the closing of the Plainfield, CT racing track.  Although all but two were supposed to be fostered, all but none were quickly adopted, adding three more families to the list of those who have flunked fostering 101.

Earlier this year, on a bitter cold day in January, PG took in nine dogs from the closing of a breeding farm in Kansas.  The dogs arrived in such awful condition that it took many of the volunteers a minute to catch their breath.  You would never have guessed their ordeal by the wagging tails that arrived that day.  They entered a room full of love and compassion and never looked back!  Four of them had their homes from day one, but as with the Plainfield dogs, several more families were added to the Fostering 101 flunk list as their fosters became permanent!

In the end, 14 more dogs found wonderful homes, thanks to the efforts of everyone involved from Kansas to Connecticut, to Camp Hill to you!   When you look at all of the dogs needing homes each, sometimes it's hard to see that as an accomplishment worthy of mention.  However,  it all begins with one... 

"While walking along a beach, a man saw in the distance what looked like a boy dancing.  He was encouraged by the outward expression of someone dancing to the new day on the beach, and he approached the young man. As he got closer, he realized that the young man was actually running, leaning down, picking something up and then gently throwing it far into the ocean. As he came closer, he saw thousands of starfish the tide had thrown onto the beach. Unable to return to the ocean during low tide, the starfish were dying. He observed the young man picking up the starfish one by one and throwing them back.

After watching the seemingly futile effort, the observer said to the young man, "There must be thousands of starfish on this beach. It would be impossible for you to get to all of them. There are simply too many. You can't possibly save enough to make a difference."

The young man smiled as he continued to pick up another starfish and toss it back into the ocean.

"It made a difference to that one," he replied."

--Author Unknown