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Press Release 3 Oct 2006
Glamour models help find homes for Greyhounds.  

Glamour and fashion models from all over the UK have been competing to appear alongside ex racing Greyhounds in the 2007 Long Legged Beauties calendars. The girls have been outraged by the wholesale slaughter of ex racing dogs recently reported in the media.

The calendars produced by Stuart and Jenny Stott of Cumbria first appeared last year and sold as far away as Australia . This year the couple are producing three different styles of calendar with two of the calendars featuring two legged as well as four legged models' one calendar has a funny but somewhat raunchy theme to it.

Jenny Stott says: “Last year we posed models alongside the Greyhounds to illustrate what affectionate creatures Greyhounds really are. The models ensured the calendar got noticed by the media both in the UK and overseas. This year we decided to produce one calendar just featuring dogs, one similar to last year and one shot in a lads mag style”

Each year thousands of healthy Greyhounds are put down at the end of racing careers which can end at two or three years of age. Recent media articles have highlighted the sad end that many of these dogs suffer.

Ryan O'Meara, Editor in Chief for K9 Magazine commented. "The misconception of Greyhounds being a high maintenance pet is gradually evaporating. Campaigns such as the Long Legged Beauties calendar are fantastic for showing the Greyhound as the laid back, friendly and extremely loyal pet that he is. They don't require any more exercise than your average dog and with an ex racer, you are providing a much needed home for what will be a fantastic family pet."

All the dogs featured in the calendars have been fostered by Jenny and Stuart who have looked after 36 dogs in the last two years.

Stuart says: “typically a dog will come into rescue from a racing kennel and then be assigned to us to foster. The dog may have no experience of living in a home so we have to introduce them to everyday things such as stairs, glass doors, and televisions. Our resident dogs Bobby and Indi take it upon themselves to show a new dog the ropes and how to play. We then help to look for a permanent home for them and support the new owners during the adoption process”.

Over 350 models applied to take part in the 2007 calendars from all over the UK . London glamour model Yazmin appears in the lifestyle calendar and in the somewhat controversial safety calendar which features scantily clad models in a series of “accidents waiting to happen”. The Greyhounds are wisely pointing out the hazards.

Yazmin says: The greeting I got when I first met the dogs is one that I'll never forget, three greyhounds bounding around me making such a fuss of me and licking me, I fell in love with them straight away and was taken aback by just how lovely they are. The whole experience was fantastic, fun and was the best photo shoot I have ever done. I now take every opportunity to tell whoever will listen what lovely dog's greyhounds are and how they really do make fantastic pets.  

All the profits from the calendars will be donated to Dumfriesshire Greyhound rescue which covers the areas of south west Scotland and Cumbria .

Albert Todd Homing Coordinator and Deputy Chairman of Dumfriesshire Greyhound Rescue says:
“This will be the second year that Stuart and Jenny have produced a calendar in aid of Greyhound Rescue, hopefully it will as successful or even better than the previous year. The plight of the retired Greyhound is an ongoing issue and any thing that can raise awareness, in a positive way, can only be a good thing. Hopefully the sales of the calendars will help aid that awareness”.

Calendars are available at £5.75 each from www.longleggedbeauties.co.uk or by calling 015395 52394. There is also more information about fostering greyhounds and greyhound rescue at www.ourgreyhounds.co.uk