Ms Jessica Reid:

We do not, but we have a working relationship with a good few. Most rescues take dogs from certain geographical areas. For example, some take dogs from Cork and Kerry while others take dogs from Limerick.

Obviously, there is a cost to transporting a dog all the way across the country for rescue purposes. We would have ongoing positive relationships with many trainers because, at the end of the day, many of them are very happy to have their dogs sorted and to know they do not have to be euthanized, that there is another option and that there are people in other countries, and even in Ireland, who will see them as pets and be happy to have them on their sofa. When the dogs go to Italy, they are greeted with a red carpet arrival - they literally walk individual dogs down the red carpet to meet their new families and they film it all. It is wonderful to see a place like that, where the dogs are treated with respect and desired as pets. That is what we are working towards here, namely, greater awareness among the public of greyhounds as pets so that they would be seen as desirable pets to have in a family home.