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Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from News Talks be follow

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Speaker 1: this and our Wide Ranger podcasts now on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: This is a great story, so many people would know.

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Speaker 2: More than two thousand greyhounds urgently need new owners following

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Speaker 2: the government's decision to bean greyhound racing next year. Now

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Speaker 2: the news comes through that the Simpsons, one of the

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Speaker 2: most iconic TV shows of all time, they have taken

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Speaker 2: the unusual step of getting involved lending New Zealand the

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Speaker 2: use of arguably what I think he is the world's

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Speaker 2: most famous cartoon greyhound. Greyhound sends as Little Helper, Hey, Barney,

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Speaker 2: which one is Whirlwind number six? That's our lucky dog

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Speaker 2: right over there, he's one as last five races.

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Speaker 1: What that's browny little bag of polls? Come my dad?

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Speaker 1: That all scorny little bags of boons.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, I guess WL winners are only hope

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Speaker 2: for a merry Christmas.

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Speaker 1: We have a lady race a.

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Speaker 2: Race Little Helper once again been by Little Helper.

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Speaker 3: Uh did you hear that?

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Speaker 1: What a name? Santa's Little Helper.

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Speaker 2: It's a sign, it's an omen.

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Speaker 1: It's a coincidence.

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Speaker 3: Dad.

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Speaker 1: One of the odds on Sanna's Little Helper ninety nine

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Speaker 1: one whoa.

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Speaker 2: Ninety nine times thirteen equals very Christmas good. Behind this

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Speaker 2: effort is the charity are committed to finding safe homes

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Speaker 2: for retired racing greyhounds Greyhounds is as Pets and Lisa

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Speaker 2: Philip from Greyhounds as Pets joins us on the phone

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Speaker 2: right now, Lisa, very good afternoon to you.

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Speaker 3: Hi, how are you doing?

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Speaker 2: Very good? So how did this partnership with the Simpsons

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Speaker 2: come about and what does it mean for the rehoming effort?

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Speaker 3: So it came about through Special the very special PR

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Speaker 3: company who know people, who know people, and they came

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Speaker 3: up with this incredible partnership which blew us away and

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Speaker 3: it is the most iconic greyhound in the world' the

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Speaker 3: send a little helper So yeah, for us to be

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Speaker 3: able to use him to help us rehome all these

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Speaker 3: greyhounds is just amazing. That is so good.

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Speaker 4: It's very very cool. How many greyhounds need to be

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Speaker 4: housed in New Zealand rehomed?

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Speaker 3: Well, at the moment we have a steady stream of

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Speaker 3: them coming through as they retire from racing. But when

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Speaker 3: racing finishes middle of next year, there will be Probably

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Speaker 3: by then we will have had about two thousand needing homes.

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Speaker 3: So at the moment it's a steady stream that when

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Speaker 3: racing finishes, will be a whole lot finishing that are

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Speaker 3: looking for a couch.

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Speaker 4: Are they good pets greyhounds?

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Speaker 3: Goodness? Absolutely, they're the best steps. They're lazy, gentle, loyal, gorgeous.

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Speaker 3: I think quiet.

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Speaker 4: What do you mean lazy? Because they're fast. They're really

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Speaker 4: really fast. Are they sprinters as opposed to marathon runners?

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Speaker 4: Is that what you're saying?

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Speaker 3: Exactly? They've built for about thirty seconds of speed and

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Speaker 3: the rest of the day is sleeping. Can infact, one

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Speaker 3: of my colleagues, Daniel, likes to say, they may be fast,

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Speaker 3: but usually they're fast to sleep.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because I I read somewhere that they're rated one

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Speaker 4: of the best dogs for apartment living because they don't

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Speaker 4: need to run around that much.

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Speaker 3: Exactly, they don't even need a garden, and they can

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Speaker 3: live in a garden. They can live in an apartment

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Speaker 3: that you know, a twenty minute walk around the block

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Speaker 3: in the morning, and then they'll sleep for the rest

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Speaker 3: of the day while you're working.

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Speaker 2: It's a perfect dog.

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Speaker 4: What about people that are concerned because of course the

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Speaker 4: ones that have been in the industry are trying to

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Speaker 4: chase after a little rabbit. What about concerns that they

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Speaker 4: go little dogs and they go other little mammals.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a fair concern. Well, they're all this use

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Speaker 3: and some of them just are simply not interested like

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Speaker 3: some of mine and the others. You know, they once

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Speaker 3: they're venus. Yes, we know which ones are going to

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Speaker 3: be better not around small animals, and we just make

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Speaker 3: sure we put them in a home where they're not

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Speaker 3: around small animals. And we do encourage new owners to

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Speaker 3: use precautions like you know, having a muzzle on them

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Speaker 3: when they first go out a few times, and just

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Speaker 3: until they get to really know the dog, until the

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Speaker 3: dog knows that it's a pet now it doesn't need

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Speaker 3: to chase things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and so what is their re home in process

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Speaker 2: involve for both the dog and adopter. You mentioned some

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Speaker 2: things there, but is there trial periods that sort of thing?

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Speaker 1: Is there?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 2: Sorry, trial periods.

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Speaker 3: They're thought it. So what happens is that dogs get

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Speaker 3: assessed when they first come into the rehoming program and

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Speaker 3: then we match them based on that to adopts. So

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Speaker 3: once an adopter comes to us, they fill out an

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Speaker 3: application form and we match them with what we believe

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Speaker 3: is going to be the perfect dog. Then really we

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Speaker 3: support them through that. So we support them pre adoption,

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Speaker 3: during adoption, and post adoption to make sure we've done

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Speaker 3: everything we can to make that adoption a success, because

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Speaker 3: we all want to see their dogs stay there forever.

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Speaker 4: So how can people holp out? How can people get involved?

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Speaker 4: How can they get themselves a greyhound h.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely so they just need to jump on our website.

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Speaker 3: So greyhounds are sets dot or body and said, I know,

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Speaker 3: go along to some of our events, but you know,

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Speaker 3: come along and meet our rehomers. Low putting in an

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Speaker 3: application and start meeting some dogs. It's as it's as

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Speaker 3: easy as that, really, And once once we've talked to

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Speaker 3: talk to our adopts, then we met your dog to them.

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Speaker 3: And that's the other thing is they can foster, They

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Speaker 3: can foster to a DoPT. If they want to foster

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Speaker 3: a dog, then adopt it, you know, sometimes that's the

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Speaker 3: way to go. And then of course there's the very

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Speaker 3: famous foster fails And I don't think there's one staff

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Speaker 3: member that isn't the haven't got a couple of foster

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Speaker 3: fails in their health exactly, and we encourage that. We

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Speaker 3: encourage that, you know. And then there's you know, there's

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Speaker 3: lots of there's the way of opportunities for people to

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Speaker 3: volunteer at at adents, to come along and help us

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Speaker 3: introduce people to greyhounds.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're pretty lean dogs, but obviously very big dogs.

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Speaker 2: Are they expensive to feed or are they They don't

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Speaker 2: eat that much.

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Speaker 3: They don't really get that much, to be honest, they

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Speaker 3: don't eat as much as you stand the germanshipperd for instance. No,

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Speaker 3: not not too bad. They're pretty low maintenance, easy to

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Speaker 3: easy to keep dogs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it sounds like the perfect bet. Yeahst are the

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Speaker 2: perfect pet, all the very best to you. So if

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Speaker 2: people want a bit more information, where can they go?

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Speaker 2: You mentioned the couple of the dropping sessions there, But

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Speaker 2: you've got a website, yeah, we do.

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Speaker 3: So go to www dot Greyhounds as pets, dot org,

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Speaker 3: dot and z. You'll find everything you need there. You'll

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Speaker 3: find our contact numbers and you'll find the application form.

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Speaker 3: Which doesn't mean we're going to tune up on your

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Speaker 3: doorstep with a greyhound. It means we're going to start

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Speaker 3: the conversation with you and match you with the perfect one.

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Speaker 4: Good on you and what a cool story with the Simpsons.

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Speaker 4: Lane can send us little helper it. It's very very

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Speaker 4: awesome and it's so cool. Yeah, you're doing great work

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Speaker 4: out there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, thanks so much, Lisa, Thank you very much for

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Speaker 2: having a chat with us, and all the best with

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Speaker 2: that campaign. Again. If you're interested in adopting a Greyhound,

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Speaker 2: which are fantastic dogs, just go to Greyhounds as pets

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Speaker 2: dot org dot n Z for.

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