The UK charity GREYHOUNDS IN NEED rescues 'galgos' (Spanish greyhounds) abandoned at the end of the hunting season there. Owners don't want to feed them between hunting seasons, abandoning them to starve to death unless lucky enough to be rescued. We decided to adopt one - a brindle boy who we named Percy, who had been dumped, then caught in a leghold trap while trying to eat the bait. Rescued but injured, he recuperated while in quarantine in the UK. It was love at first sight, and when we took him out onto Hampstead Heath, he ran in ever decreasing circles, sometimes seemingly flying through the air. Not a day passed without someone remarking, 'what a beautful dog.' After a bad start in life in Spain, he had 13 happy years with us in leafy Hampstead, collapsing at our feet at home a year ago having had a heart attack.

Angela Humphery
London, United Kingdom