OUR TESTIMONIALS

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

  CANADA’S GREYHOUND AIR SERVICE ...AND FOR THE LOVE OF GREYHOUNDS In 1996 an Airbus service of seven Boeing 727s out of British Columbia was born, called Canada’s GREYHOUND AIR (see photo) with a connection to Greyhound Bus Lines. Unfortunately the air service collapsed 14 months later as Laidlaw Inc. bought out Greyhound Bus Lines with no interest in keeping the air service alive. But let me tell you ... it was the best experience I've ever had on a plane. The mascot for the air service was a retired racing greyhound. The promotional advertisement was this greyhound lifting his leg on the 727's tire (see photo, may have to enlarge). The flight attendants handed out t-shirts with the mascot's photo on the front, greyhound drink containers, greyhound key fobs, a table-size standing mascot with greyhound puppy (see photo), a life-size standing greyhound AND sterling silver greyhound tie tacs and cuff links. In addition to that, a few of the flight attendants were qu