I think one of the main reasons that the Pre adoption hasn't taken off or doesn't work as well as it may sound is that for

1) It's a long wait. Some are longers than others. If you see a puppy picture and they are 3 months old it could be as much as 5 years before this grey may become your pet.

2) If you pick a hound and then that hound goes on to be a super star (stud dog or brood) the pre adopter may never get the hound that they have waited so long for

3) You have other pets and this hound doesn't get along with other pets (small animals, other non greys whatever)


4) You loose interest/lose track of the grey or the owner of the grey loses track of you

5) The worst case something horrible happens to the hound and it dies (sickness, sever injury)

Now that's not to say it would work but that it's not all that easy and also what's the worst thing? The pre adopter can't take the hound and it goes to an adoption group. Not to bad

Also it's may be tough for some greyhound owners to keep track of all the people and all the dogs of who wants who.

I'm begining to find that most of the people that we deal with want there hounds back for there own personal pets. But then again we deal with some very small time owners and also some of the best grey owners that are out there