"As a person who helps connect humans and Greyhounds..."

As the President and Founder of Forever Home Greyhound Adoptions, as well as having 13 of my own Greys, I feel like it's important to weigh in with my views as not only a Grey mom, but as a person who helps connect humans and Greyhounds, every day for over 20 years now.

With all the allegations and controversy surrounding the Greyhound racing industry lately, I feel like it's high time that more of us on the adoption side of the road make our thoughts and feelings known.

Having been in the adoption world for well over 20 years now, I think I have seen and heard just about everything, and I am here to tell the world that all the anti-racing slandering of the industry is shameful, hurtful, and untrue. Most of the AR mouthpieces that spout toxic lies the loudest, have probably never ever seen the inside of a racing kennel, and maybe never even witnessed a Greyhound race.

Well, I HAVE, and I can truthfully say, that most kennels are cleaner than some people's homes, and the cupboards are fully stocked with all the healthy vitamins and supplements, to insure the health and wellbeing of the dogs that live there.
When the trainers and handlers enter the kennel, the dogs are THRILLED to see them. They wag and squiggle with joy. NEVER have I seen a dog cringe or run to the back of their cages, NEVER !!!!

Having been pro-racing from the very beginning, I have also attended hundreds of races, and the joy in the faces of those races is impossible to ignore. They're bred for speed, and nothing except maybe a yummy treat, pleases them more, than getting out there and chasing that lure.

Let's face it, you CAN'T force a dog to run. If he doesn't want to, he won't, period!!  And if the day comes when any of the athletes don't want to any more, they're promptly retired with love, and sent on to the second phase of their life, adoption.
That's it, no abuse, no neglect, just love and respect from birth to adoption. It's just that simple.

Forever Home Greyhound Adoptions, Inc. Has placed hundreds and hundreds of retirees from tracks all over the country, as well as directly from the breeding farms, and NEVER in all these years have we ever received a dog that appeared to be the victim of any type of abuse or neglect. That bull is, plain and simple, a money-extorting ploy made up by the anti-racing scoundrels who are the masters of Photoshopping and fairy tales. They want your money, and that's the long and short of it.

In the meantime, they show nothing but reckless disregard for the dogs, which will be displaced by the hundreds if racing disappears, the good God- fearing people who know no other way of life than working with their dogs, and last but not least, the rest of us out here who depend on the industry to provide us with these noble retirees that we all love so much.

Does the AR faction even realize that without the NGA, the breed will be lost to the puppy mills and backyard breeders who will defile and destroy one of the oldest breeds known to man?

Get out there and speak up for our breed everybody!! Dont let this noble breed and the humans that love them disappear. We are RACING PROUD, and happy to be able to say so.

Paula Laporte
Forever Home Greyhound Adoptions, Inc