I really don't feel the need to get into a P*ssing match with you. But please let me point out a few minor flaws in your statements.

Greyhounds don't hit the tracks until they are 18 months old. Sure there are a few that will go to the tracks at the age of 15 or 16 months old but those are few and far.

You don't know if the dog can run until it is running against the competition at the track so how would you decied at the age of 12months old that they are no good?

Heck they just start training at 12 months old.

The discription of the retired racers that you talk about just doesn't quite make sence either. Not calling you a lier but it just doesn't seem to add up.

If the dog went to the track she would have been on hormones. Kinda like the birth control pills. So if she was at the track for even a couple of months she would have been like 20 months old.

Then when they come off the track they don't go right into season. So say it takes a few months for them to come into season.

So now she's 22- 24 months old. So now she's two. She is then bred and that is a 63 justation period. Another two months pass for her to have her pups. Now she is around 2yrs 2months old. Now she has to be with those pups for another 2 months for the pups to nurse. Now she's 2yrs 4 months old.

Now the breeder of this dog has no clue how her pups are going to turn out as racers. He/she thought enough about her to breed her why would he just dump her off at the pound/shelter?


Oh and about the DUH part on your post. Very classy

If you would take another look at my post you will see that I was fixing my error while you were posting your ever so nice comment

I'm human and make errors.

As far as saying "until there are no longer "owners" like such"

Well hell, we could say that about people that adopt any animal.

Until there are no more adopters that won't abandon, abuse, starve, mistreat, there pets then we won't adopt out animals and all should be put down. Kinda sad huh?

Doesn't make a difference to me if you like greyhound racing, aprove of it, hate it or love it.

To each there own, Just sharing my tid bit of information from the inside

Originally posted by Kfamr
Maybe because it was cold out.
They rarely move at the shelter. And when they try, it's VERY hard for them. They all come with their "racing names"... all at around the age of 1-2. If their owners honestly cared about them they wouldn't dump them off at the shelter, they'd keep them and love them even if they can't race anymore.

I've even met a "retired racer" who as her description was raced, then when "she couldn't race any longer" was bred many times she was dumped at the shelter. All at the age of 2 years.
That's really a loving owner, huh?
NO. I'm not saying all greyhound owners an people who race them are like that, but until there are no longer "owners" like such I don't approve of the "sport".


YES... DUH. That's why I said that it was one of the many THAT I SAW AT THE SHELTER.
And it's there because it was dumped off like property.
I took the picture, i've been around many "retired racers"