Bill and Audrey, our Membership Secretary, had to say goodbye to      Miguel, their galgo, earlier this year.  Miguel was a regular visitor to the GIN office and he will be much missed by us all.    We were very sorry to hear that Suzie had to say    goodbye to lovely Trisi, her galga from Spain.  Trisi   featured on our GIN paper and notelets over the years.     18 My dear Loretta was euthanased on Friday 19th June 2009.  She died peacefully in her own      basket in my home. She was 13 years old.   Loretta was an Irish bitch     exported to    Barcelona and raced there   under the name Carmesi. She was well known there apparently for always running wide of all the other dogs. Having survived Spain, she was rescued and transported to Belgium by Greyhounds Rescue     Belgium and adopted by an elderly couple there . She stayed there for three years until her owners themselves were taken into care. She was prepared by Josephine under the Pet Passport Scheme for adoption by me. My sister and I picked up her up from Calais in October 2004. It was an agonising decision to let her go, because, as you see, she looks so beautiful, but you can just see the vile tumour, a haemangiosarcoma on her left shoulder , which developed very rapidly after a minor skid on my patio while running to bark at next door's dogs.... ..she was in so much pain that it took a large cocktail of painkillers to help her    settle and the vet advised me that it was not going to get any better and that we could and should spare her any more hours of such agony.    She was a fantastic dog, probably the most         difficult I have known! Very spooky at first, noisy and awkward to handle but as the years went on, her courage , wonderful spirit and zest for living showed through and upheld her to the last.I look to her as a lesson to all of us on how to live!                                                                    Anne Finch TRIBUTES