"I am so grateful that my eyes and mind were opened..."

I like to refer to myself as a "recovering anti-racer." I have always found greyhounds to be so unique and beautiful. When I was younger I was vehemently opposed to greyhound racing. I had never been to a track, a kennel, or otherwise. I had just "heard" stories about greyhound racing. I thought because they wore muzzles, it must be cruel. I was a legal assistant at a law firm that represented the Tampa Greyhound Track and I was appalled that they would do legal work for the track. I was very naive, gullible and, most importantly, UNINFORMED. It took me a while, but about 7 years ago I started volunteering at a re-homing group in South Florida. The re-homing group was located among active racing kennels. When I first started, I was still "anti", but as time went on and I witnessed more, I realized that I had been wrong for so long. What I discovered was the the dogs were well fed, well cared for and loved. The people that I met that worked in racing kennels or were breeders or trainers were good people who love their greyhounds. Since that time, my husband and have adopted two retired racers who have brought such tremendous joy to our family, and we will continue to adopt retired racers. I am so grateful that my eyes and mind were opened and that I can proudly say that I am pro-racing. The truth is out there, I just hope others like me take the opportunity to see it and learn it for themselves. No on 13!

Aimee M. Garner
Sunrise, Florida

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"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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