<p>Thanks for taking the time to visit our JustGiving page.<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ange and Jackie are two ladies, no longer quite in the first flushes of youth and each the proud owner of 3 adopted ex-racing greyhounds, who have decided in 2012 to combine their 1st attempt at an ironman triathlon (2.4 mile / 3.8km swim + 112 mile / 180km bike + 26.2 mile / 42.2km run in 17 hours maximum) with raising money to help with the re-homing of these fabulous dogs when their racing careers end.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">Greyhounds are lazy, gentle, couch potatoes who happily spend 23 hours a day asleep and need only 2 short walks a day and lots of TLC to keep them happy. They are generally clean dogs who shed very little hair. Many of them can live happily with children and other dogs. </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Sittingbourne Retired Greyhound Trust was set up to re-home some of the greyhounds retired from racing at the Sittingbourne stadium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Approximately 9,000 greyhounds, typically aged between 4 and 6 years, retire nationwide per year and many of them find their way to the RGT re-homing centres where they are looking for a loving &lsquo;&rsquo;forever&rsquo;&rsquo; home for the 2nd half of their lives. You can see some of them at <a href="http://www.rgtsittingbourne.co.uk/">http://www.rgtsittingbourne.co.uk/</a></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span></p>