It is Saturday evening about 9pm and we just had dinner in town. Tomorrow Anneke leaves us and we will miss her greatly....

Last night was a wonderful adventure --- we hooked-up with the new adoption group from France www.levriers-en-danger.fr that is in partnership now with Scooby. We ate dinner together and had a excellent time. They are so very nice and have hearts of gold. THe best part was one of the gentleman with them, is the forever home to Quinn, the blind galgo that I wanted to adopt! It was fate that things happened that way. The also took a galgo that came from Seville a year ago. He came to the shelter skin and bone weighing only 37 pounds. Debbie was sure he was going to die and when she left asked a nice man Jeff to watch over him. He held true to his promise as today he was loaded on the truck to France --- adopted by the kind French woman we just met last night! We were all so touched from how things worked out... we cried, hugged and exchanged email, phone numbers and will soon be in touch to exchange photos and share the last leg of our trips. We are already talking about a trip to France....

This morning was about the same as yesterday. No electric/water until about 5pm. There were so many dogs that had no water all day... between cleaning the paddocks, putting coats on, checking bedding we had the chance to help the French group load the galgos for their treck across the border. It was such a cool experience. Bittersweet. So happy to see them go knowing they willhave warm homes and love but sad to look over your shoulder to see those left behind.

On a positive note, the French group will be returning in 3 weeks to take more galgos and the news crew will be there then. They did not make it today as thre was a scheduling conflict. Apparently the French newspaper ran an article on Levriers going to Scooby and the Mayor read the article and called one of the men on his cell phone! The Mayor was touched by the fate of the galgo and Levriers efforts that he watned to speak to them. What a huge baby steps in spreading the awareness of the galgo.

Today will be my last email as we have no car to come to town for the remaining trip.

Here I need to tell my little man Anthony that I love him very much and miss him more than anything in the world...and I also miss you too Frank! As well as my girls keeping everybody company on the sofa. I am excited to come home with our new foster addition and change her life forever. This has forever changed me, for the better of course and I can´t wait to see what the future brings in terms of helping the galgos.

Much love and thanks to you all,
Julie GInger and Annie