I haven't read much of what has been said past the first to pages, so forgive me if this is a repeat. I have been envolved in greyhound rescue for a couple years now, and I can see flaws in both the anti and pro groups that have been argued here. I'm kind of in the middle-I refuse to be pro or anti racing, I'm just pro greyhound. Cali-I can see where you're coming from, but not every greyhound does get into an adoption group. Not every kennel will hold them until a place in an adoption group opens up, and despite what the Pro racing people say, there are still greyhounds that suffer horrible deaths, get sold to labs, etc. But things are improving, adoption percents are going up. It's much better then it was 20 years ago. As for the anti racing-Not every greyhound is abuse, neglected, mistreated, but not everyone gets a high quality diet either. I've done alot of reasearch on this. It depends on the track, the trainer, and the owner as to how the dogs are treated. I've seen some greyhounds come off the track in amazing shape that have been very well taken care of. I've seen some come out of shelters and homes that where very poorly taken care of. The worse abuse case I have ever seen was a AKC greyhound that was abandoned by a breeder and ended up in a shelter-Not a racer, but I'm not even going to pretend that there aren't cases where racers are treated poorly-there are. Would I ever go to a race? I might once just so I could see what it was all about, but once would probably be enough. My biggest thing against greyhound racing is that there are far to many being bred, there's just not enough good home available for them, but they are far from the abused creatures some of the first posters made them sound like. No, they aren't spoiled rotten usually, they don't get fancy collars, beds, and toys like some of our own pets do, but look at how many people keep dogs chained in thier back yard, or in a kennel 24/7-Most greyhounds are far better off then those dogs!