Wendy?s Alpine Coffee Shop Introduces a Special Promotion for IG Animal Rescue
Vail, CO (PRWEB) January 23, 2012 Join Wendy in the coffee shop for a coffee plus a ham and egg croissant for just $ 7 and Wendy?s Coffee Shop will contribute $ 1.00 to IG rescue. Stop in and enjoy the photos of Eloise and Yuki, beautiful Italian Greyhounds who are a part of the logo for the coffee shop. Yuki is an albino Greyhound rescued from an abusive home.
The Italian Greyhound (IG) is the smallest of the family of gazehounds (dogs that hunt by sight). The breed is an old one and is believed to have originated more than 2,000 years ago in the countries now known as Greece and Turkey. This belief is based on the depiction of miniature greyhounds in the early decorative arts of these countries and on the archaeological discovery of small greyhound skeletons. By the Middle Ages, the breed had become distributed throughout Southern Europe and was later a favorite of the Italians of the sixteenth century, among whom miniature dogs were in great demand. It is, in fact, due to it...