18 July 2025, Issue 1269
Get to know them! Just look at them! How could you say ‘No’? Well Marcel and his owner Lauren Kramer, pictured with doggy friend Maus hope you can’t! You see Kramer, a local volunteer for adoption agency Greyhounds as Pets, wants the public to get along to a relaxed GAP Pat
& Chat event at Décor Gardenworld from 2pm-4pm tomorrow, July 19, to learn more about the breed. For Kramer it was love at first sight with Marcel, who will be on-site tomorrow with Maus and a few other greyhounds to lap up pats. She reckons adopting him was “the
best thing I’ve ever done”. “Even if you’re not looking for a dog right now, or you just want to know more about greyhounds, that’s the whole point of this event. “It’s just about getting the word out there that: yes, greyhound adoption is a thing, and they do make fabulous pets!”
GAP wants to increase awareness and their visibility in Tauranga with next year’s proposed ban on greyhound racing in New Zealand set to up the number of the dogs needing to be rehomed. Find out more on page 26. Photo / Brydie Thompson
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