"Seeing the joy that running gives her does my heart good."

My Greyhound story is as follows. We had always had dogs, never a greyhound. My children were grown and my oldest son was in law school and working part time in a law office. I was waiting for him outside his office when a lady came down the street walking two of the most graceful, elegant dogs I had ever seen. They entered a office building. Well my son got back to the car and I asked about the dogs. He told me they were retired racing greyhounds and they came to the office almost every day. I was fascinated and decided to look into getting a dog like this. I searched on the Internet and found Southeastern Greyhound Adoption. I filled out an application and talked with the people at the adoption group. Then I met Lacy (CG Heart Tune). She is a magnificent dog and fit in with my family, other dogs and cats.

I had never had any contact with greyhound racing and I had heard things about how the dogs were mistreated at the tracks. I quickly determined that this could not be true. I have seen and been associated with dogs that have been poorly socialized, neglected and abused and that is not Lacy. I need to mention that she came from a very poor track. She is confident, calm, gets along with other dogs, children and adults. She has been to meet and greets, parades, friends houses with large groups of people and dogs and she is confident, well mannered and a delight to be around.
One of her favorite things is to go lure coursing. Our greyhound club sponsors four coursing meets a year and Lacy participates in the fun runs. She loves to chase the lure. Seeing the joy that running gives her does my heart good. The excitement starts when we turn onto the dirt road and she can hardly wait until it is her turn. Chasing the lure is her heart's desire.

Greyhounds were bred to run with purpose. They are a working sporting dog with a purpose in life. They were not intended to be a "couch potato" or even a pet. The fact that they make an incredible companion dog and adapt so well to life off the track is a testament to the care and training they get at the track. I support Greyhound racing and believe it will be to the detriment of the breed to abolish racing.

Virginia Hudson and Lacy
Molena, Georgia

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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