"So I visited Derby Lane shortly after that and my view of racing turned upside down."

Here is my story and why I support the continuation of greyhound racing:

I adopted my first greyhound in 2012 and my second one in 2013. They are both currently 8 years old. I had never seen a greyhound race but knew of a couple people who had adopted greyhounds. They seemed like such sweet dogs so I decided to adopt. However, all I had heard was the negative propaganda about racing so I believed that I was “rescuing” a greyhound. After my first one made such an easy transition to my home, I began to wonder why, if greyhounds are “abused”, she had shown no behaviors common to abused animals. At the same time I had some conversations with one of the leaders of my local adoption group in Pennsylvania who sensed I had a negative view of racing but didn’t have any facts to base it on. She encouraged me to go see a greyhound race if I had never been to the track before, and make up my own mind about racing. (Thank you Ellen!) She suggested that I go right up to the fence at the edge of the track to see and feel the greyhounds as they ran by. So I visited Derby Lane shortly after that and my view of racing turned upside down. I was blown away by the joy of the dogs as they ran. I started to hunt down race kennels on Facebook and watched videos of the kennels. I got in contact via social media with trainers of my dogs. And that is how I became pro racing.

I believe the future of this great breed will be in jeopardy without racing to continue the gene pool. And their racing history and upbringing is the reason why they make such great pets in retirement.

I recently moved to Florida and hope to bring the truth about racing and the breed to our voters.

-Donna C, Florida

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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