2004 Picnic

Our annual picnic, held on Sat November 6th at Phoenix Greyhound Park was another smashing success. A little over 500 greyhound owners came out to spend the day with all of their wonderful hounds. It is always such a special time for the AAGI staff to see all of the adopted greyhounds come back for a fun day. Thank you for making time to attend this event.

The costume contest was again the hit of the day! What a riot to see the great imaginations of some of our adoptive families, and the greyhounds are always so tolerant of it all! Our judges had a real challenge choosing the final winners, but here are their selections:

1st Place:
Jemma as Little Bo Peep & Chief as the Sheep
Owned by: Kim and Connie Short

2nd Place:
Kyro as an Egyptian Princess
Owned by: Cindy Adams

3rd Place:
Billy & Zanzi as Goldielocks and the 3 bears
Owned by: Charyn & Ray Wieneke

4th Place:
Maggie as a Hawaiian Girl
Owned by: Julia Arnette

The Blur of Fur was also great fun with friendly competition for “bragging rights” to the fastest time:

Fastest Time: Stitch (42.9 mph)
owned by: Wally & Peggy Ringhoff

2nd Fastest Time: Roe (42.7 mpgh)
owned by: Shannon Taylor

Slowest Recorded Time: Loni (8.2 mph)
owned by: Ralph

Thank you to RU2 Systems for letting us use the radar system.

We raised close to $10,000 to help keep AAGI in operation plus found loving homes for 10 of our “I’m Available” greyhounds.

Thank you to everyone for helping us make this day a huge success!!