"It became abundantly clear that this dog was a spoiled rotten princess"

My journey to Greyhounds began five years ago. Doesn’t seem so long!

I was teaching at a high school where a colleague would regularly email items for sale for donations to her Greyhound group. I stopped by one day to inquire, since I was in a stable career and had purchased my own home and was looking to adopt a dog. She told me (what I know now to be) a bunch of propaganda about Greyhounds... the two “facts” that stick out the most are that “over 100,000 greyhounds are killed each year because they’re considered livestock” and “they only run counter-clockwise because of racing. Even at home.” The one true thing she told me is that they don’t need excessive amounts of exercise and not having a yard wouldn’t be a problem if I was committed to taking my dog for walks (I was). So, I set out to research available dogs. I absolutely fell in love with Spice on Petfinder and arranged to meet her at her foster home.

And she was terrible!! She was on the furniture, running/jumping from couch, to loveseat, to ottoman, repeat. We almost didn’t take her. But my roommate and I decided to take her for a walk, and she was completely different outside. So we decided to give it a go. And it became abundantly clear that this dog was a spoiled rotten princess. What I thought I knew just didn’t jive with what I was seeing. So I set out to find her trainer, which I did (thanks, Sarah).

Anyway, shortly thereafter, my roommate adopted her boy and we started volunteering for GST's Sun State Greyhound Adoption. We now have our 28th foster at home and are co-owners of two active racers! (Thanks to Monte for the opportunity and to John, Crystal, & Monica for taking such great care of them.)

Spice just celebrated her fifth gotcha day and is just about as spoiled as ever

😏

The top left picture is the day I got her and stopped by my parents' house to show them the surprise!

Brooke Busby

Comments

"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, a

"She was not 'culled' like a puppy farm inmate"

It's about the dogs! It's been not quite four years since I became a "Crazy Greyhound Lady," retired racers have that effect on a large number of their adopters. NGA greyhounds have amazing careers as athletes and then are fortunate to have an adoption rate of over 95% when those careers are over. Now it's time for all of us who appreciate all that goes into the breeding, training, and care to stand up and defend racing against the endless lies put out by profit-driven extremists. My husband and I have adopted two retired racers and volunteer extensively with our adoption group, including traveling to the track to pick up new retirees and doing home visits to help match prospective adopters with dogs. We had the oh-so-common experience of mutual love at first sight when we met each of our hounds. Coming up with a testimonial should have been an very easy task. Instead I struggled with draft after draft, they all fell short. One day I realized that it was not

"And one year later we visit the first time a racetrack."

My Story: so sorry my English is not perfect I hope you understand me?! I am from Germany and in 2002 I met my first greyhound. He was from the last closed racetrack in Italy and was in a shelter in Germany. His name was Teseo (Teseo della Capitale). The beginning of a very deep love to greyhounds. But Teseo was so sad an scared and unlucky ... now we know he was unlucky with us. He was the first time alone ....He missed other greyhounds. But eight weeks later we adopted Zama (Teresas Hope). A female from the same track. And Teseo was so happy! He changed in a lucky and wonderful boy. At first we hate everything about racetracks. We heard from rescue groups so terrible things about this. This was a very bad area and all people are bad. But we met other greyhound owners in our town and we talked about everything ... and about the racetrack too. They told us so much other stories about the dogs and the people and we changed our opinion. And one year later we visit the f

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