Girly Girl
Raced At: Birmingham Racetrack, Birmingham AL
Kennel: Lomax Kennel
Raced From: 2004-2006
Races: 108
Sire: Mocan Try
Dam: Nita’s Mona Lisa
Date of Birth:
February 15, 2003
Bridge Date: October
12th, 2010
Adoption Date: April 28, 2007
Adoption Kennel: Maine Greyhound
Placement Service
Girly Girl had a very successful career winning grade A and
B races until April 11th, 2006 when she fractured her right
hock. The plan for Girly Girl was to
send her back to her owner to serve as a brood mom. It happened that representatives of Maine
Greyhound Placement Service made a visit to the kennel shortly after Girly
Girl’s injury and persuaded her trainer to release her into retirement. Thus began Girly Girl’s adventure to Maine .
Mumma came to MGPS looking to adopt her very first
greyhound. After walking a number of
hounds, Scott Bruns put Girly Girl’s leash into her hand. Girly Girl and Mumma had a walk and then a
chat. The deal was sealed with a nose
snuffle to Mumma’s cheek. Girly Girl
began her next adventure as mentor, teacher and heart dog to her new Mumma.
Girly Girl excelled at her job of making Mumma a better
person until December of 2009 when a limp turned into osteosarcoma. Mumma and Girly Girl fought with everything
in them to spend as much time together as possible. Girly Girl braved amputation and multiple
rounds of chemotherapy. They were
blessed with another year together. She
left her Mumma on a sunny fall day taking Mumma’s heart with her when she
went.
Blue
Racing Name: Royal
Bluejay
Raced At: Raynham-Taunton
Greyhound Track, Raynham MA
Kennel: Unknown
Raced From: 2005-2007
Races: 95
Sire: Dungaree
Dam: Royal Dream
Date of Birth: December
10, 2003
Bridge Date: January 16, 2016
Adoption Date: October 20, 2007
Adoption Kennel: Maine Greyhound
Placement Service
Blue had a reasonably successful racing career but he must
have been incredibly frustrating for his owner and trainer. If Blue felt like winning on a given day, he
would win. If he didn’t, he didn’t. Blue had a competitive streak but he ran to
please himself mostly. After racing in
grades B and C he worked his way to grade D and had his last run on May 26,
2007. He made his way to Maine Greyhound
Placement Service.
Mumma went to MGPS to adopt her second greyhound and she was
determined to get a brother for Girly Girl.
Mumma let Scott know that she was looking for a low key, laid back male
to fit in with our house vibe. After
walking several male hounds, Scott mentioned he had another one but he wasn’t
really “low key.” Out came Blue with his
dark gray eye patches and stunning amber eyes.
I took hold of his leash and he proceeded to drag me up and down the
driveway. He was far too high-strung for
our house but I was blinded by his beauty.
Home he came with Mumma.
Blue spent his first year tearing Mumma’s rotator cuff and
being a major handful in general. But
Mumma had a diamond in the rough. She
admits she didn’t really know this for sure at first but as Blue settled in to
his retired life, his amazing personality revealed itself. Blue has been teaching Mumma about patience
and how best to uncover the laid back love sponge that was hiding just
underneath the crazy surface.
Bettina
Dam: Kiowa Mary Tammi
Bettina
Racing Name: Mohican
Heart
Raced At: Twin River , Lincoln , RI
Kennel: Unknown
Raced From: March
2010-May 2010
Races: 9
Sire: Heart Rumble
Dam: Kiowa Mary Tammi
Date of Birth: October
8, 2008
Bridge Date: Never I
Hope!
Adoption Date: November 13, 2010
Adoption Kennel: Maine Greyhound
Placement Service
Bettina had a very brief racing career. She raced from March 1, 2010 to May 10,
2010. Shortly after her arrival at the Twin River
greyhound track in Rhode Island ,
the owners of the track agreed to shut the track down in return for monetary
compensation. It was determined that
Bettina did not show enough promise as a racer to ship her to another track so
she was retired. Making her way to Maine
Greyhound Placement Service at the tender age of 18 months, she spent 6 months
waiting for her forever home. Mo, as she
was known at MGPS thought she had found her home when a family chose her and
put a deposit down. For reasons unknown,
the adoption fell through and a month later a broken hearted Mumma found
herself walking a little black greyhound around the grounds.
Bettina had energy and plenty of love to give. During their walk she demonstrated a number
of times that she already thought Mumma was the bees knees. Though Mumma wasn’t ready for any other
greyhound, let alone crazy Mo, the small black greyhound came home to live with
her new brother Blue and become Bettina.
Bettina kept Mumma so busy that she didn’t have a lot of time to think
about whether or not this had been a good idea.
Bettina is the bossy, entitled, class clown of our little
kingdom. She immediately started telling
Blue what to do and it took her some time to learn that the same would not be
the case with Mumma. As Bettina settled
into her life of retirement she to began to reveal the beautiful personality
that was just underneath the spastic nut job.
Bettina is teaching her Mumma more about patience, first aid and that a
broken heart is still capable of deep love.
Dam: TMC’s Allheart
Blue spent his first year tearing Mumma’s rotator cuff and being a major handful in general. But Mumma had a diamond in the rough. She admits she didn’t really know this for sure at first but as Blue settled in to his retired life, his amazing personality revealed itself. Blue has been teaching Mumma about patience and how best to uncover the laid back love sponge that was hiding just underneath the crazy surface.
Mumma
Dennis
Racing Name: Hallo
Prospect
Raced At: Wheeling
Downs W.V., Derby Lane FL, Sanford-Orlando FL
Kennel: Steubenville
Raced From: 2014-2015
Races: 70
Sire: Kiowa Myth
Dam: TMC’s Allheart
Date of Birth: August
8, 2012
Bridge Date:
Never I Hope!
Adoption Date: March
9, 2016
Adoption Kennel: Fast Friends
Dennis had 70 races
under his belt but we can’t figure out why they let him race so many times
before retiring him. He never made it
out of grade D and he had only two 1st places (one was during his
training races). Most of the time he
placed 6th, 7th or 8th. It must have been the fact that he was so
handsome and personable that kept him at the track. Because once you get to know Dennis, it’s
hard to think about not being around him.
Dennis suffered an
injury to one of his back legs and lost part of a toe as a result. We’re not sure if this was a racing injury
(most likely) and possibly what retired him.
His last race was on July 24th, 2015. From there he made his way to Fast Friends in
New Hampshire.
Mumma was grieving the
loss of Blue when she came across Dennis’ photo on Facebook. There was something about that face. It stopped her in her tracks. Soon Bettina and Mumma were on their way to
New Hampshire to meet Dennis. And a
little while thereafter, the lovely people at Fast Friends were bringing Dennis
to Maine to begin his real retirement in his forever home.
Dennis has been the
easiest of all of Mumma’s greyhounds so far with respect to settling in to
retired life and learning the routine.
Somehow we always end up with diamonds but this one doesn’t need as much
polishing as a couple of the others we could name J.
Dennis is super sweet, loving and enthusiastic. Despite Mumma’s early emotional struggles
with bringing in a new hound after Blue, Dennis managed to completely win her
over and convince her that passing him by would have been the biggest mistake she
had ever made.
Blue spent his first year tearing Mumma’s rotator cuff and being a major handful in general. But Mumma had a diamond in the rough. She admits she didn’t really know this for sure at first but as Blue settled in to his retired life, his amazing personality revealed itself. Blue has been teaching Mumma about patience and how best to uncover the laid back love sponge that was hiding just underneath the crazy surface.
Mumma
Mumma doesn’t remember exactly how she stumbled across her first information about greyhounds but it was at least 10 years before she
adopted Girly Girl that she dreamed about being in a place where she could
bring home one of these beautiful dogs.
Mumma, a lifelong Mainer, currently resides in a little town
called Bowdoin. She works for a
wonderful company and her job allows her to work from home. She considers her life with greyhounds to be
one of the most important things that ever happened to her. She is an expert poop scooper and poop
flinger. In her spare time she ferries two
bossy greyhounds to Grammy’s, meet and greets, play dates and other hound
events.
Her current life goals are to raise money to aid in finding
the cure for osteosarcoma and to find the perfect “life enrichment” toys for
the furry children.
