I got a greyhound,too.....When you see how these dogs enjoy to run at full throttle on an open field......that takes your breath away.....and at home they are so gentle and well mannered..
What a terrific video highlighting just how delightful these kids are to adopt! My first greyhound was a “bounceback” due to a divorce, precious and terribly timid (most likely due to the situation she lived in). Now I share my home with two from a nearby rescue group. Never a doubt these two were loved there! We still talk about my big boy. The joy and abandon they display, as they discover the joys of living in a house, will always fill me with happiness. I will always adopt a rescue.
We've rescued 9 senior greyhounds over the last 6 years, most of them straight from the farm. We've visited several farms, training facilities & race tracks and everywhere we went the dogs were treated greyt! I'm sure there are isolated incidents where treatment isn't what it should be just like there are anti racing people who are a-holes...the rare negative always garners the most attention.
Magilla looks just like our Molly, she is 13 years old 20.12.17, and still like a little run, especially after next doors cats or squirrels, but most of the time she likes to sleep, but she still has a wonderful life and is eager to go out, but then thinks, well maybe not that far, my bed and dinner are calling. Lovely dogs are greyhounds.
Hilly-Taken in by us at 12 years old-The owners were retiring and she no longer fit the lifestyle they wanted after having her nine years, they were anti racing Divy-Came here from the UK, divorce & neither one wanted him, spent a year chained outside to a deck & saved weighing 40 lbs., spent the next three years with us before cancer, the couple were anti racing. Athenia-Came to us at 10, one eye & a broken back from beatings, and again...they were anti racing. Yup, y'all are nice people!
So clearly you don't care that these dogs suffer for your "enjoyment". That kind of says it all really. Thanks for the encouragement, its your kind of attitude that makes me fight dog racing every day :)
Isabelle you should visit a Greyhound rescue shelter. I remember the first time I went NO ONE said DONT PET THE DOGS! DONT PUT YOUR HANDS THROUGH THE FENCE!
What are "senior greyhounds" doing at the farm? The only reason most such greyhounds would be there is because they've been used for breeding and are now worn out. Is that the case with yours?
John, GREY2K USA is not an adoption group, they are a greyhound advocacy group, working to outlaw greyhound racing for the dogs. Many of the individual members and volunteers of GREY2K USA have rescued greyhounds and/or other breeds. Many of their supporters also rescue animals, including greyhounds.
And my advice to you is; Do not make unsubstantiated false claims about people who go out of their way and spend their own time and money rescuing greyhounds just because you support an industry that breeds far many more dogs that it ever intends or is capable of caring for in the long term.
I'm sure someone has said this already, but many, many greyhounds do very well with cats and small animals in the home. My retired racer has less prey drive than my lab mix.
When you start naming names I will also, so far we're both spewing platitudes. Although I get the feeling your hate is much stronger than my mild dis-like of certain groups. Good luck pursuing your cause, and I mean that, it's nice to have a passion in life. We're simply on different sides of the track and nothing will ever change that.
The issue, John, is not in the running - it's in the imposition of the constraints imposed upon those greyhounds to run in a pack around a tight track with sharp turns. Those greyhounds are put in harm's way by the nature of racing, not just from running. Yes, some dogs will get injured playing in their yard, but those are occasional accidents with a much lower probability, most likely, than greyhound injuries which occur on a fairly regular basis.
My Greyhound has a high prey reflex because she was winning races in the A3 classes in the UK. Her forced career was stopped due to leg injury, then her owner/trainer made her a 'Brood Bitch' where she had 3 pups that were registered to the Greyhound database (what happened to the other pups, I cant imagine)
Yes to your question Eric, we take the ones no one else seems to want for whatever reason. We've gotten them as young as 7 and as old as 12. The troubled ones usually come from a home, the six from the farm were well cared for and in greyt shape. Are there bad things that happen in racing, of course, just like bad things happen in the Catholic church. We seem to focus on the isolated incident in life instead of the big picture sometimes...just my opinion.
30 dogs and not one barked when I came in! They all lay there with their front paws crossed like the ladies and gentlemen they are. I dare you to leave without adopting one!
I live in Missouri also (STL). I researched greyhound rescue groups. I don't know that I came across this one, but maybe they didn't jump out? I'm particular. MA? Odd and disconcerting. My kids come from rescues. That group certainly never showed up.
I found a greyhound stray who was starving while I was walking to school but I didn't have any thing to help so after school I went looking for it and I couldn't find it. I really hope its safe (the dog was so skinny you could see all its ribs)
It is also an opinion shared by racing enthusiasts: "The chances of your garden variety pet breaking its leg in the park or on the beach would be but a fraction of those that break legs on the track. Defies logic to think otherwise. The same could be said for horses. Greyhounds being the high performance animal they are will always be at a higher risk of injury as are race horses. If we are to win this debate then we must start from a factual base." John Goode, enthusiast who's dog I now own.
Prey drive isn't all training. It's typical nature nurture. My other dog, as nearly we can tell, is a pit bull/teddy bear mix and he has very high prey drive too. We never trained that, he just wants to get whatever moves fast. As long as 'it' is healthy though, its getting away. With the grey, that's more of a question. Whatever. Dogs had to catch their dinner-- evolutionarily speaking-- much more recently than we did. When you catch yourself falling, but are actually safe in bed, that's the same thing. It comes from when we lived in trees millennia ago. Anyway, I never rescued a greyhound. I've adopted 4 because they are perfect dogs. And much cooler to have a retired racer than to buy a purebred pup in my opinion. Only these days, we generally have to import them from the UK or Australia.
The casualty and death reports are not opinion John. They speak of death and cruelty for the benefit of entertainment. Check out the grey2KUSA education fund. They fund lots of greyhound rescues, and they genuinely love greyhounds. They choose however to campaign for abolition rather than just offer a free clean up service so the racing industry can continue with its cruel practices. They are very successful and show how to win these campaigns.
If you consider running, something every hound LOVES to do, being put in harms way then your right. Kind of like saying speaking for humans puts them in harms way for profit...a true statement but no validity.
Some people are cruel, some are not. The problem with greyhound racing is that cruelty is institutionalized. The dogs are commodities whose value come from their ability to generate profit. When that ability is lost they are discarded. The individual trainer discarding them may be the kindest, most caring individual in the industry, but when it comes time to make a decision about the future of the dog, market values have to win out.
We can argue all day long debating what "we" view as facts, like you I take facts and make them fit the situation, what you just posted is a perfect example! I would guess there are more wrecks on NASCAR tracks than on a hiway, but to compare the two would be disingenuous.
The name you gave, Adopt-A-Greyhound org is not an adoption agency. That address belongs to the Greyhound Project out of Massachusetts. Are you sure that's the name?
If you can't back up that statement with proof then readers ought to dismiss your defamatory statements outright, because its well known that racing enthusiasts are often dishonest. The dog-racing industry only exists by deceiving the public.
As you yourself said, these are isolated incidents that occur because of bad owners. Do you want to consider Ronnie Williams as the poster child for American greyhound owners? He managed to starve three dozen greyhounds to DEATH! The owners of these greyhounds should have had the dogs repossessed before they got into bad shape. Most American groups will gladly take a greyhound back if the family is unwilling or unable to maintain appropriate care.
Guess you can't read or understand clearly....the dogs were rescued by ANTI RACING groups who then gave them to abusive anti racing people, thank goodness we finally ended up with them giving them the home they deserve. The other six we've gotten directly from the farm were in excellent shape and well cared for. as I've stated multiple times, no one can change your mind, and no one can change mine, i think I'm right and you think your right, but you can't even get that far in thought processing.
These dogs were born and bred for the gambling industry, with no secure long term plan ever put in place for their inevitable point of being unprofitable. This is true of hundreds of thousands of greyhounds across the globe, pawns of the entertainment industry. They should never have been used as "racing stock" in the first place and should have been born and kept as cherished family pets right from the start. Obviously their racing owners made poor choices giving them up but they wouldn't care.
Wonderful video there folks but you didn't let on that many greyhounds are simply put to death when they no longer have value in the racing industry. In New South Wales Australia, the industry (Brent Hogan : CEO GRNSW) admits to killing around 3000 in this context, though the evidence suggests a higher amount. In New Zealand the industry (Jim Leach : Racing Manager) admits to killing "a few hundred" in this context every year, but again, the evidence suggests that's grossly underestimated.
It's natural, greyhounds love to run. I've had quite a few in the last 25 years and even the ones that never went to the track that I got as puppies loved to run in the yard.
So thry Banned racing in FL - phased out over three years. So who is going to adopt the some 7,000 Greyhounds at those twelve FL tracks? These will be above and beyond the normal adoptions. PETA and Doris Day has their blood on their hands! They're morons!
my dog has a really high prey drive :( i cant have her around ANYTHING unless its another BIG dog... :( CURSE THE EVIL BASTARDS THAT BROKE HER.... otherwise--- shes perfect--- EVERYONE should adopt a G-hound!!
Many big dogs are scared of smaller ones. Smaller dogs tend to be yappy, will bare their teeth - and can attack from underneath. I've had hounds for over 30 years and some were terrified of little dogs (one was scared of cats, but that's a long story lol). The thing is, when you're big and don't have much protection in the way of fur on your undersides, that part becomes very vulnerable to attack. And as it's more likely for a small dog, especially terriers, to yap at them, it's easy to see why big dogs don't bother them but smaller dogs do. I've had two dogs (on the lead) be attacked by smaller dogs off the lead. Both times they came out of nowhere and attacked without provocation. One was a black lab mix, smaller than my smallest hound and it virtually ripped her throat out. I'm not exaggerating. She was walking quietly on the lead with my other hound next to her and this dog just ran up and attacked her. Mercifully it happened near to a friend's pet shop and we had a greyhound specialist vet in our town (lots of racing kennels in that area then), so we were able to get her into him in about 10 mins of the attack occurring. I'm sure you can imagine why she, and our others who were either ok with small dogs or were just wary of them, all would do anything to get away from them after that.
@@y_fam_goeglyd Thats what I meant. Smaller dogs are not scared of them. I have had many come off lease after my boy and he jumps around to avoid them rather than attacking them.
Yes, I've bet on the dogs, also bet on football games, basketball games, car races and play poker, and according to you I'm a degenerate, but the last time I checked you can think whatever you wish, no effect on me at all. We've never owned one but are friends with many owners, trainers and vets involved in the business.
I'm not following you on that, John. I don't see where "Adopt-a-Greyhound" org HAS an affiliate or subdivision. Can you perhaps be more specific with the name?
I love watching these videos seeing the great stories of how the animals got rescued but it frustrates me when I have to pause the video constantly because the text goes by so fast but other than that these videos make me want to rescue a shelter animal
The other day I was talking to a Christian, and asked her if I didn't believe the way she believed would I go to hell, she said a firm yes. I then stated that her and the Taliban are almost exactly the same, if I don't believe what they do I'll go to hell, the only difference is they'll send me there a bit quicker if given the chance...reminds me of talking with you.
Sounds like we have a stalemate, it's closed minded one sided people like y'all that create hate for your own justification and cause. As they say, be careful not to hate something so much you actually become what you hate.
Its not "hate" it is the love of the greyhound breed. A gentle vulnerable animal that suffers at the hands of the gambling industry. There are dozens of John Conrys in this world, you're still basically anonymous. I'm not interested in who you are, I want to know who these so called dodgy adoption groups are, so we can have them investigated. Surely you'd want them to make better adoption decisions? Or are you only interested in babbling on how awesome racing is? Name the abusers, or shut up.
Greyhounds are the fasted dogs that exist. The industry exploits that and cranks that ability through the roof, kinda like cranking your stereo up so loud it blows up the speakers, or pressing your foot to the floor in neutral, and holding it there for a sustained period of time. After all thats what brings home the dirty money in dog racing. Then they often just throw the dogs away. Racing is a bogan activity for gambling degenerates that faces an uprising across the globe, and rightly so.
All dogs enjoy running and greyhounds can safely free run. Racing takes that to the extreme, beyond responsible limits. If you dont realise this you know nothing about torn gracilus and fractured hock type injuries that are typical of racing. If greyhounds like to race then why do they have to ping their prey drive for years and use a mechanical lure? Dog racing is industrialised, barbaric, outdated animal cruelty that exists only for the benefit of entertaining degenerate gamblers.
The fact you're supported by G2K, the group at it's core who's never rescued a single dog take a bit away from your creditability IMO. Numbers lie and liars use numbers, works for both pro & anti groups and all boils down to opinion.
No, and you know who I am also, easy to check out. YOU check out the dogs we took in, Final Dividend, raced in the UK, RD's Hilltop raced here and Athenia I'm not sure. Have fun with your hate, there's nothing I can do about it...I looked at your channel, sad, very sad.
No ones condemning any rescue group, they would no doubt value feedback that they have been adopting in a less than optimal way, if there is any truth to your claims - and I personally think there's not. You cannot substantiate anything other than praise the trainers which enable you to gamble. Its not a solid place to debate from. You said:"here is the awful group we've gotten everyone of our hounds from." But didn't actually name any group. Try again John.
LOL, your a funny man, condemning rescue groups that don't agree with your thought process down to the letter. very open minded. Two things very difficult to overcome in others is poverty and ignorance, I doubt you're poor. here is the awful group we've gotten everyone of our hounds from. Yes, us awful people. Here is the group we've gotten every one of our hounds...
Try as you may to distort facts, you're obviously good at it, read back and I stated they came straight from the farm...I keep forgetting radical fringe people look for non existent things to complain about.
Everything you say is opinion, doesn't make you right, doesn't make me right. You're anti racing, I'm pro racing. You're comment about "degenerate gamblers" tells me alot about how open minded you are and putting blind labels on activities...of course that's just my opinion!
I got a greyhound,too.....When you see how these dogs enjoy to run at full throttle on an open field......that takes your breath away.....and at home they are so gentle and well mannered..
What a terrific video highlighting just how delightful these kids are to adopt! My first greyhound was a “bounceback” due to a divorce, precious and terribly timid (most likely due to the situation she lived in). Now I share my home with two from a nearby rescue group. Never a doubt these two were loved there! We still talk about my big boy. The joy and abandon they display, as they discover the joys of living in a house, will always fill me with happiness. I will always adopt a rescue.
We've rescued 9 senior greyhounds over the last 6 years, most of them straight from the farm. We've visited several farms, training facilities & race tracks and everywhere we went the dogs were treated greyt! I'm sure there are isolated incidents where treatment isn't what it should be just like there are anti racing people who are a-holes...the rare negative always garners the most attention.
Such a great story because it had such a happy ending.
Exactly right, that's why I love these videos; Reassurance that there are really good people out there.
They are both such beautiful animals...but Magilla's got something special...what a sweetie!
Shelter animals are not broken, but people who take them for granted are the broken ones. Heartless humans
Great breed of dogs. Very resilient and HIGH prey drive.
I think I'd like to have one.
My girl has low prey drive... not all are high drive! Don't be a moron!
I have a brindle greyhound callled brindie. Retired and such a sweetheart would never give her up for the world
Beautiful, the best dogs.
Tails of Hope is so touching, I love it!
Great story.
Greyhounds are sou majestuous!
I have 2 of this couch potatoes. my female looks exactly like Magilla. The best dogs ever.
Magilla looks just like our Molly, she is 13 years old 20.12.17, and still like a little run, especially after next doors cats or squirrels, but most of the time she likes to sleep, but she still has a wonderful life and is eager to go out, but then thinks, well maybe not that far, my bed and dinner are calling. Lovely dogs are greyhounds.
Such a cool looking dog.
Hilly-Taken in by us at 12 years old-The owners were retiring and she no longer fit the lifestyle they wanted after having her nine years, they were anti racing
Divy-Came here from the UK, divorce & neither one wanted him, spent a year chained outside to a deck & saved weighing 40 lbs., spent the next three years with us before cancer, the couple were anti racing.
Athenia-Came to us at 10, one eye & a broken back from beatings, and again...they were anti racing.
Yup, y'all are nice people!
So clearly you don't care that these dogs suffer for your "enjoyment". That kind of says it all really. Thanks for the encouragement, its your kind of attitude that makes me fight dog racing every day :)
Long live the Greyhounds!
Isabelle you should visit a Greyhound rescue shelter. I remember the first time I went NO ONE said DONT PET THE DOGS! DONT PUT YOUR HANDS THROUGH THE FENCE!
What are "senior greyhounds" doing at the farm? The only reason most such greyhounds would be there is because they've been used for breeding and are now worn out. Is that the case with yours?
John, GREY2K USA is not an adoption group, they are a greyhound advocacy group, working to outlaw greyhound racing for the dogs. Many of the individual members and volunteers of GREY2K USA have rescued greyhounds and/or other breeds. Many of their supporters also rescue animals, including greyhounds.
And my advice to you is; Do not make unsubstantiated false claims about people who go out of their way and spend their own time and money rescuing greyhounds just because you support an industry that breeds far many more dogs that it ever intends or is capable of caring for in the long term.
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I'm sure someone has said this already, but many, many greyhounds do very well with cats and small animals in the home. My retired racer has less prey drive than my lab mix.
Yeah. My Greyhound gets along just fine with small critters such as cats and little dogs.
When you start naming names I will also, so far we're both spewing platitudes. Although I get the feeling your hate is much stronger than my mild dis-like of certain groups.
Good luck pursuing your cause, and I mean that, it's nice to have a passion in life. We're simply on different sides of the track and nothing will ever change that.
Chose to believe whatever you wish, condemn what you're passionate about...it's been fun.
The issue, John, is not in the running - it's in the imposition of the constraints imposed upon those greyhounds to run in a pack around a tight track with sharp turns. Those greyhounds are put in harm's way by the nature of racing, not just from running.
Yes, some dogs will get injured playing in their yard, but those are occasional accidents with a much lower probability, most likely, than greyhound injuries which occur on a fairly regular basis.
Yes, that's the name, the subdivision or affiliate we've gotten our nine hounds from is in MO.
My Greyhound has a high prey reflex because she was winning races in the A3 classes in the UK. Her forced career was stopped due to leg injury, then her owner/trainer made her a 'Brood Bitch' where she had 3 pups that were registered to the Greyhound database (what happened to the other pups, I cant imagine)
Yes to your question Eric, we take the ones no one else seems to want for whatever reason. We've gotten them as young as 7 and as old as 12. The troubled ones usually come from a home, the six from the farm were well cared for and in greyt shape. Are there bad things that happen in racing, of course, just like bad things happen in the Catholic church. We seem to focus on the isolated incident in life instead of the big picture sometimes...just my opinion.
God damnit hes to cool for getting left behind :3
I love the grace in movement of a scent hound.
Of course, I meant sight hounds. yikes.
30 dogs and not one barked when I came in! They all lay there with their front paws crossed like the ladies and gentlemen they are. I dare you to leave without adopting one!
he seems like a normal grey hound
I live in Missouri also (STL). I researched greyhound rescue groups. I don't know that I came across this one, but maybe they didn't jump out? I'm particular. MA? Odd and disconcerting. My kids come from rescues. That group certainly never showed up.
I found a greyhound stray who was starving while I was walking to school but I didn't have any thing to help so after school I went looking for it and I couldn't find it. I really hope its safe (the dog was so skinny you could see all its ribs)
The greyhound was also scared of me
Poor magilla
It is also an opinion shared by racing enthusiasts:
"The chances of your garden variety pet breaking its leg in the park or on the beach would be but a fraction of those that break legs on the track. Defies logic to think otherwise. The same could be said for horses. Greyhounds being the high performance animal they are will always be at a higher risk of injury as are race horses. If we are to win this debate then we must start from a factual base."
John Goode, enthusiast who's dog I now own.
I love my dogs long snout
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Prey drive isn't all training. It's typical nature nurture. My other dog, as nearly we can tell, is a pit bull/teddy bear mix and he has very high prey drive too. We never trained that, he just wants to get whatever moves fast. As long as 'it' is healthy though, its getting away. With the grey, that's more of a question. Whatever. Dogs had to catch their dinner-- evolutionarily speaking-- much more recently than we did. When you catch yourself falling, but are actually safe in bed, that's the same thing. It comes from when we lived in trees millennia ago. Anyway, I never rescued a greyhound. I've adopted 4 because they are perfect dogs. And much cooler to have a retired racer than to buy a purebred pup in my opinion. Only these days, we generally have to import them from the UK or Australia.
The casualty and death reports are not opinion John. They speak of death and cruelty for the benefit of entertainment.
Check out the grey2KUSA education fund. They fund lots of greyhound rescues, and they genuinely love greyhounds. They choose however to campaign for abolition rather than just offer a free clean up service so the racing industry can continue with its cruel practices. They are very successful and show how to win these campaigns.
Every gambled on the dogs John? Ever owned one for racing?
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Anyone else think Greyhounds live a cruel life in the racing lifestyle?
If you consider running, something every hound LOVES to do, being put in harms way then your right. Kind of like saying speaking for humans puts them in harms way for profit...a true statement but no validity.
this is a great video! 8D
Some people are cruel, some are not. The problem with greyhound racing is that cruelty is institutionalized. The dogs are commodities whose value come from their ability to generate profit. When that ability is lost they are discarded. The individual trainer discarding them may be the kindest, most caring individual in the industry, but when it comes time to make a decision about the future of the dog, market values have to win out.
We can argue all day long debating what "we" view as facts, like you I take facts and make them fit the situation, what you just posted is a perfect example! I would guess there are more wrecks on NASCAR tracks than on a hiway, but to compare the two would be disingenuous.
The name you gave, Adopt-A-Greyhound org is not an adoption agency. That address belongs to the Greyhound Project out of Massachusetts. Are you sure that's the name?
Dog says...."I thought in becoming a free agent, there'd be more money involved...."
I have a grey hound
If you can't back up that statement with proof then readers ought to dismiss your defamatory statements outright, because its well known that racing enthusiasts are often dishonest. The dog-racing industry only exists by deceiving the public.
It's adopt a greyhound org, keeps saying error when I try and post the link.
The Springfield, MO. group
my names adele i feel like its really coming back now :3
As you yourself said, these are isolated incidents that occur because of bad owners. Do you want to consider Ronnie Williams as the poster child for American greyhound owners? He managed to starve three dozen greyhounds to DEATH! The owners of these greyhounds should have had the dogs repossessed before they got into bad shape. Most American groups will gladly take a greyhound back if the family is unwilling or unable to maintain appropriate care.
Guess you can't read or understand clearly....the dogs were rescued by ANTI RACING groups who then gave them to abusive anti racing people, thank goodness we finally ended up with them giving them the home they deserve. The other six we've gotten directly from the farm were in excellent shape and well cared for. as I've stated multiple times, no one can change your mind, and no one can change mine, i think I'm right and you think your right, but you can't even get that far in thought processing.
These dogs were born and bred for the gambling industry, with no secure long term plan ever put in place for their inevitable point of being unprofitable. This is true of hundreds of thousands of greyhounds across the globe, pawns of the entertainment industry. They should never have been used as "racing stock" in the first place and should have been born and kept as cherished family pets right from the start. Obviously their racing owners made poor choices giving them up but they wouldn't care.
Wonderful video there folks but you didn't let on that many greyhounds are simply put to death when they no longer have value in the racing industry. In New South Wales Australia, the industry (Brent Hogan : CEO GRNSW) admits to killing around 3000 in this context, though the evidence suggests a higher amount. In New Zealand the industry (Jim Leach : Racing Manager) admits to killing "a few hundred" in this context every year, but again, the evidence suggests that's grossly underestimated.
So according to you, the adoption agency said 3 dogs were abused. Were they a pro or anti-racing adoption agency?
SO SAD WHT PEOPLE DO TO ANIMALS!! STOP ANIMAL ABUSE!!!
Ok, being a resident of STL, MO, checking out this group. I don't see where they have a kennel to visit dogs. Rather odd.
Not all groups do... here in Suburban MD outside of DC we rely on Foster Homes for the dogs immediately following the end of their track career.
I think it's disgusting when people race dogs! It's not natural for them, yes Greyhounds need excersise, but I don't like the racing idea!
well its almost nothing compared to using them for lab expirementing and forcing them to fight :c
It's completely natural for them you idiot. If it wasn't they wouldn't race, they'd sit down and not move.
It's natural, greyhounds love to run. I've had quite a few in the last 25 years and even the ones that never went to the track that I got as puppies loved to run in the yard.
@Lance Salter They still hunt or lure course!
So thry Banned racing in FL - phased out over three years. So who is going to adopt the some 7,000 Greyhounds at those twelve FL tracks? These will be above and beyond the normal adoptions. PETA and Doris Day has their blood on their hands! They're morons!
my dog has a really high prey drive :( i cant have her around ANYTHING unless its another BIG dog... :( CURSE THE EVIL BASTARDS THAT BROKE HER....
otherwise--- shes perfect--- EVERYONE should adopt a G-hound!!
No one broke her. The breed has been used for hunting for literally thousands of years!
High prey drive and scared of them? No bro other way around
Many big dogs are scared of smaller ones. Smaller dogs tend to be yappy, will bare their teeth - and can attack from underneath. I've had hounds for over 30 years and some were terrified of little dogs (one was scared of cats, but that's a long story lol). The thing is, when you're big and don't have much protection in the way of fur on your undersides, that part becomes very vulnerable to attack. And as it's more likely for a small dog, especially terriers, to yap at them, it's easy to see why big dogs don't bother them but smaller dogs do.
I've had two dogs (on the lead) be attacked by smaller dogs off the lead. Both times they came out of nowhere and attacked without provocation. One was a black lab mix, smaller than my smallest hound and it virtually ripped her throat out. I'm not exaggerating. She was walking quietly on the lead with my other hound next to her and this dog just ran up and attacked her. Mercifully it happened near to a friend's pet shop and we had a greyhound specialist vet in our town (lots of racing kennels in that area then), so we were able to get her into him in about 10 mins of the attack occurring.
I'm sure you can imagine why she, and our others who were either ok with small dogs or were just wary of them, all would do anything to get away from them after that.
@@y_fam_goeglyd Thats what I meant. Smaller dogs are not scared of them. I have had many come off lease after my boy and he jumps around to avoid them rather than attacking them.
The only thing you need to be scared of with a greyhound is that he'll hog the couch. Seriously. Unless you're a squeaky toy, then you're in trouble.
Yes, I've bet on the dogs, also bet on football games, basketball games, car races and play poker, and according to you I'm a degenerate, but the last time I checked you can think whatever you wish, no effect on me at all. We've never owned one but are friends with many owners, trainers and vets involved in the business.
I'm not following you on that, John. I don't see where "Adopt-a-Greyhound" org HAS an affiliate or subdivision. Can you perhaps be more specific with the name?
I love watching these videos seeing the great stories of how the animals got rescued but it frustrates me when I have to pause the video constantly because the text goes by so fast but other than that these videos make me want to rescue a shelter animal
Hmm...he's called out on the name of the group he adopted from, and then he vanishes...
The other day I was talking to a Christian, and asked her if I didn't believe the way she believed would I go to hell, she said a firm yes. I then stated that her and the Taliban are almost exactly the same, if I don't believe what they do I'll go to hell, the only difference is they'll send me there a bit quicker if given the chance...reminds me of talking with you.
They all put them in harms way for profit however.
Sounds like we have a stalemate, it's closed minded one sided people like y'all that create hate for your own justification and cause. As they say, be careful not to hate something so much you actually become what you hate.
yes they shouldnt be used for racing!
Its not "hate" it is the love of the greyhound breed. A gentle vulnerable animal that suffers at the hands of the gambling industry. There are dozens of John Conrys in this world, you're still basically anonymous. I'm not interested in who you are, I want to know who these so called dodgy adoption groups are, so we can have them investigated. Surely you'd want them to make better adoption decisions? Or are you only interested in babbling on how awesome racing is? Name the abusers, or shut up.
Greyhounds are the fasted dogs that exist. The industry exploits that and cranks that ability through the roof, kinda like cranking your stereo up so loud it blows up the speakers, or pressing your foot to the floor in neutral, and holding it there for a sustained period of time. After all thats what brings home the dirty money in dog racing. Then they often just throw the dogs away.
Racing is a bogan activity for gambling degenerates that faces an uprising across the globe, and rightly so.
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All dogs enjoy running and greyhounds can safely free run. Racing takes that to the extreme, beyond responsible limits. If you dont realise this you know nothing about torn gracilus and fractured hock type injuries that are typical of racing. If greyhounds like to race then why do they have to ping their prey drive for years and use a mechanical lure?
Dog racing is industrialised, barbaric, outdated animal cruelty that exists only for the benefit of entertaining degenerate gamblers.
You gotta give us a little more time to read
The fact you're supported by G2K, the group at it's core who's never rescued a single dog take a bit away from your creditability IMO.
Numbers lie and liars use numbers, works for both pro & anti groups and all boils down to opinion.
No, and you know who I am also, easy to check out. YOU check out the dogs we took in, Final Dividend, raced in the UK, RD's Hilltop raced here and Athenia I'm not sure. Have fun with your hate, there's nothing I can do about it...I looked at your channel, sad, very sad.
No ones condemning any rescue group, they would no doubt value feedback that they have been adopting in a less than optimal way, if there is any truth to your claims - and I personally think there's not. You cannot substantiate anything other than praise the trainers which enable you to gamble. Its not a solid place to debate from.
You said:"here is the awful group we've gotten everyone of our hounds from." But didn't actually name any group. Try again John.
This might be my dog ._.
Hmmm. I thought you said you got 3 from there and the rest from trainers. There appears to be a few cracks emerging..
I wish i was allowed to have a dog 8(
LOL, your a funny man, condemning rescue groups that don't agree with your thought process down to the letter. very open minded. Two things very difficult to overcome in others is poverty and ignorance, I doubt you're poor. here is the awful group we've gotten everyone of our hounds from. Yes, us awful people.
Here is the group we've gotten every one of our hounds...
Try as you may to distort facts, you're obviously good at it, read back and I stated they came straight from the farm...I keep forgetting radical fringe people look for non existent things to complain about.
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Everything you say is opinion, doesn't make you right, doesn't make me right. You're anti racing, I'm pro racing. You're comment about "degenerate gamblers" tells me alot about how open minded you are and putting blind labels on activities...of course that's just my opinion!
The only thing that is important is the termination of the cruel and outdated industry of greyhound racing.
Put your money where your mouth is, and name the groups and individuals then?
first comment great video
no need for politics or personal insults - not going to help the dogs -