"I drove many dogs for Halfway Home during their busy years."

My Greyhound story began with the opening of Geneva Lakes in 1990. We went to the the track and cashed a quinella on Blue Duck and we were hooked. We started as volunteers for GH Pet Connection which had a racing kennel to support her adoption kennel at her house. Through the years from 1990 to 2002, we drove over 5,000 dogs to the Michigan welcome center. We bought our first racer, DK Blue Thunder from a guy in Sparr, FL. Thunder never raced nor his brother. We got them adoptive homes. When Thunder’s family got divorced, we kept him. He died at age 6 of an autoimmune disease. We kept buying dogs. Started breeding dogs on Jim Sanderford’s farm in Cheyenne, OK. When Jim got sick, things went downhill. We used a substandard farm because no one else had room. And two entire litters became instant pets. I continued buying a dog now and then. I also continued Greyhound adoption when I moved to Maryland. I drove many dogs for Halfway Home during their busy years. Most of the adoption people in Maryland are uninformed. Never visited a track or farm. But spew incredible lies. I had to give it up. Most people in Maryland don’t even know what a Greyhound looks like. My Dalmatian Katie, white and brindle Greyhound, and my Weimaraner Mickey. A blue Greyhound.

We are moving to Kansas in August where I think most people have seen a Greyhound! I am hoping and praying we someday will have greyhound racing back in kansas.

-Donna Weeks
Gambrills, MD and Solomon, KS

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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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