It was raining; it was raining cats and humans; good day for ducks - bad day for hounds (we don't do rain).

We turned up at Salcey Forest on Monday morning in the BeastBus with the sound of large raindrops on the roof. We were all for going back home to bed when suddenly it stopped and dad said that was it, we were staying.

Because there were not so many people yesterday we chose a different spot - near the toilets, which is a place humans have to go into to wee and stuff. Seems rather strange to me, but then they can be wierd breed sometimes.

Weather is strange stuff. By the time we had got everything ready the sun was shining. And apart from one time it didn't rain again all day, though I thought it might.

Some friends of dad's turned up with their hound called Harvey. Harvey is a Cliff Richdog of the hound world - apparently 14 he looked about 4.

Then some new hounds arrived, Mikey and Patch with their humans Sally and Ewen. They had come all the way from Cambridge to help us out, which is just fantastic - so big thanks to them.

The day seemed busier than Sunday, with more people coming to see us. That meant Troy was spoilt for choice who to lean against, and often had to move fairly quickly from one person to another. Strange thing is, everyone he leant against thought it was brilliant - like they were the only person he'd ever leant against. He has a knack for that. Loads of people asked if he needed a home, but dad said he was stopping with us.


Troy having a lean

Then Jayne arrived with her mum and dad and puppies, with the rather beautiful Fleur - who we had heard lots about, but never met.


Fleur

Me and Jack went for a walk with Fleur, and you remeber I said it only rained once more in the day? Guess when it did it - right - while we were on the walk. We got soaked, but luckily the sun did come out afterwards.

Now, call me a whimp if you want, but although I know and like Jayne, and I know and like Salcey Forest, I really didn't like being away from my mum and dad. Jack didn't care though - I think he was trying to impress Fleur.

When we got back there was a lady hugging Hooch; in fact she hugged Hooch for a very long time. Turned out she thought has was lovely and wanted to offer him a home.


Hooch and Sharon

Her puppy liked Hooch too.


Hooch and Sharon's Puppy

We hope that dad will get a call to see if Hooch can go round and see them soon; not that we want to get rid of Hooch you understand, but it would be nice if he had a forever home.

As we were there all day dad took our beds over. We don't mind who uses them, but most hounds pick one that they can fit in to. Patch decided to do otherwise, and chose one that just wasn't big enough.


Patch

All during Monday we had to pose for photo's. First of there were loads of "exchange students" who were fascinated by so many hounds in one place. This is Mikey posing with some of them and his dad.


Mikey and Students

Then there were the human puppies - they wanted their photos with us too.


Human Puppies with Troy and Lucy

And then there were the two young ladies called Lucy that wanted to have their photos with our Lucy.


Lucy with Lucy and Hooch


Lucy and Lucy

As you can see, some of the small humans brought us ice creams. Aunty Jayne had earlier too, and it was really nice of everyone to buy us more - we all love ice cream. Thank you.

Then after packing away we all went for a walk with Mickey and Patch and showed them part of our favourite walking place. I think they liked it.

It was two very long days, but I think it was worth it.

We managed to raise £109.59 for Greyhound Gap. We were hoping for a bit more, but the weather meant not so many people came to the forest.

What I really do think we did was showed people what nice beasts we are. In fact some people came up to us while dad was packing up and said how good we all were.

And I'm sure we made some more people aware of what happens to so many of us, and how few actually find homes.

We would like to thank everyone that came to help - Aunty Claire with Greg, Alison with Sol, Chris with Millie and Bess, and Sally and Ewen with Mikey and Patch, and everyone that came specially to us, and everyone that put some dog food tokens in the tins. Thank you.

Ohh. Nearly forgot - Josie's mum Ann won our quiz. She got 17 out of 25, and won six bottles of wine. We took them there this evening, and she is going to use them at another greyhound event to raise even more money - how fab is that?