Originally posted by true
i think whats happened overall is that someone posted a cute thread about their new pet greyhound, then some pro racing people came in and gave their line. then anti racing people came and and responded with their own line.
You have mischaracterized the nature of that thread. I recall it differently. Several people, including long-time PTers, can attest to how it actually went. Here's my version and see who believes my version or yours:

A young lady posted a thread with a photo of her cousin's greyhound. She described it as "20-30 pounds underweight," "shy," and with "scars." While the tone of her post seemed to be happy that her cousins had adopted a greyhound, her manner suggested that it had been abused. She even put one of these after her description of him.

I suggested that a greyhound 20-30 pounds underweight would be emaciated. The greyhound in the photo looked absolutely normal.

You know as well as I do that greyhounds have very thin skin and scars are common on pets as well as racers. Shyness is typical of newly adopted dogs.

I made a number of offers:

1) To find out the dog's racing name. With that I could find out the kennel or racing owner and where the dog raced and his racing weight so his new owners could establish a baseline for determining his proper pet weight which should be no more than 5 pounds or so over his racing weight.

2) If the dog had been mistreated, as the poster seemed to imply, I might be able to find out who might have done it. I know or can quickly find out the reputations of nearly every kennel operator out there. It just takes a few phone calls.

3) I could find out the breeder. My experience with greyhounds is that 90% of a greyhounds scars occur in puppyhood when its littermates play too rough with those sharp puppy teeth. There is nothing quite like going into a turnout pen at a farm with 13 snapping, nipping, jumping nearly grown puppies. One hook by one of those teeth in a play nip is a scar.

While making these offers of my time and effort I had to endure sniping and crabbing by a number of people who made disparaging comments while I was trying to help.

Then along you come, with an immediate personal attack on me, and got the thread deleted with just two posts. Nice job. You showed your "true" colors.