Category: Walks

Well, here we are at the end of another month and today we had a trot around the lovely town of Hadleigh.

As the number of volunteers grows within the Suffolk Greyhound Trust, we were fortunate to introduce to you many of our newest recruits.

Our new stars in the spotlight today, identified by their muzzle colours were Major (yellow), Barry (purple). Billy (green), Twix (red) and JP (blue), ably assisted by our more experienced crew of Fergie (lime green), Ken (dark green), Tommy (white) and Timmy (orange).

Fabulous to see some of our recently homed hounds and their families joining our walks and as always it’s a pleasure to see our old friends and their families.

Now we’ve often said, as Volunteers, we absolutely love our role, and are extremely privileged, but sometimes, something a little extra special happens, which absolutely sums up why it is so important to give these wonderful dogs a platform to showcase how special they are.
Nearing the end of our walk, we chanced upon the gorgeous “Paulette” riding along the path. In that split moment, Paulette was surrounded by soft muzzles, kind eyes and burrowing heads, all wanting to give and receive love to/from her.
In that very special moment, Paulette and JP locked eyes and he just rested his head on her lap and neither wanted the spell to be broken. All of us were clearly affected by this beautiful moment, but none more so than Paulette, who once composed, thanked us and especially JP for “making my day”.
Such is the impact our fantastic dogs have, the ability to brighten someone’s day, to soothe and comfort and to give that unconditional love. And as we headed for our final port of call, “The George” to enable all to have some liquid refreshment (water for all of course), why would you not? we run into the Minister of the United Reform Church here in Hadleigh, who was also suitably delighted to have chanced upon us and bestowed hugs and cuddles to all our canine friends. Quite a day!

Many Thanks to Angie and Nigel for leading the walk, to The George for once again making us so welcome, to all who stopped to chat to us about our hounds and of course to all of our supporters who were able to join us.

Just a little reminder that our monthly walk takes place in Hadleigh tomorrow. The weather is forecast to be a little cooler but should our walk leaders (or yourselves as individuals) feel it is too warm to do the long walk, a shorter walk along the river and the wooded area will be the taken instead.

The walk details are:-

Meet at the Magdalen Road Car Park Hadleigh IP7 5AD for an 11am start. We are welcome at The George after the walk.

We held our April walk today in Edwardstone. What a gloriously sunny day it was!

26 dogs were in attendance including 8 of our kennel dogs.

Thanks you to Sara for leading this beautiful walk, one which we will definitely repeat next year.

Our thanks also go to Ellie the Manager at the White Horse pub for making us so welcome, Laura and Gilly for the photos and of course as always to those who were able to join us. The kennel dogs present who we have identified by their muzzle colours were:-

Timmy Blue
Ken Light Green
Buddy Orange
Carter Dark Green
Donald Yellow
Fergi White
Zeus Black
Barry Red
All of them behaved perfectly, absolutely fantastic.

On Sunday we had our March walk, this time at the Food Museum in Stowmarket. We were joined by 57 greyhounds and 5 other breeds along with their humans for a walk at the lovely museum grounds and afterwards in the cafe where we sat outside enjoying the spring weather. We were joined by eleven kennels hounds namely: Mac, Carter, Sally, Harry, Decs, Ted, Dolly, Fergi, Tommy, Zeus and Ken. Their profiles are available to read on our website.

We thank Emma for organising and leading the walk, the Food Museum for being so accommodating, our volunteers for walking all our dogs and taking photographs and to John who drove the van to take many of the dogs to and from the start of the walk. Finally we thank all of you who come along to these walks as you make it so worthwhile.

Due to a large cycling event taking place in Boxford (our original walk venue) We will now walk a mile or so up the road in Edwardstone.
The address is The White Horse, Mill Green, Edwardstone CO10 5PX Start time11.30 am

There will be a long and short walk in the quiet village of Edwardstone and the surrounding countryside. PLEASE NOTE a change to our usual start time. The walk will start at 11.30am when the car park of the White Horse pub will open it’s car park free of charge.
The White Horse offer refreshments, many of which are locally sourced or brewed on site. Coffee, Boards and Bites menu are available along with Sourdough Pizzas.

Just a little reminder that our March walk takes place tomorrow.

11 of our kennel dogs will be in attendance.

They would love to meet you.

Approximately 50 hounds and their families joined us for our walk in Clare on Sunday. Kennel dogs who came along and are identified by their muzzle colours were Jadie May (Purple) Sam(Yellow) Buster (White) Harry (Blue) Magic (Red) and Tommy (Black). Bonnie also came along with a volunteer who has decided to adopt her.

Many thanks to the Rough Acre Brewery for opening your car park early for us and for making us welcome after the walk.

Thanks also go to volunteer Melanie for leading our first walk in Clare, to Tansy for the photos and of course to all who came along.

Due to staff holidays the cafe at Clare Country Park is closed. Our walk in the country park will still go ahead but we have arranged a new meeting point. We will now meet at Rough Acre Brewery, Clare Hall Barns, Clare CO10 8PJ at 11am
This means after the walk we can still purchase drinks and bar snacks and we can have our post walk social gathering as usual. There will be a Volunteer at the original starting place for anyone who does not see this post which means the start of the walk may be delayed a little to ensure nobody who wants to join the walk is left behind.