Staff at the kennels help dogs readjust to a slower pace of life

Deneholme Kennels, in Albourne, near Burgess Hill, has been set up by the Brighton Greyhound Owners Association.

The home, in Wheatsheaf Road, provides a place for greyhounds to go to be eased back into a slower pace of life before they can be re-housed.

Staff at the kennels help the dogs readjust to life away from racing and then put them on show for prospective owners.

Retired greyhounds at the facility are normally aged about four years old and need to be re-homed for the next seven or eight years of their lives.

The dogs would have raced at Brighton and Hove Greyhound Stadium in Nevill Road, Hove.

Maralyn Parker, from the kennels, said: "Home, a nice big dinner, a cosy bed and that is their life.

"They do not need lots of walking, they just need to be fed and watered and made a fuss of."