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they live well they're known for their
speed on the racetracks but many of the
greyhounds you see and up in need of
forever homes after they're done with
their racing days joining us today is
Sheri Roda more with bekata
animal sanctuary with some friends
thanks so much for being here very
welcome who's right here this is Ranger
Ranger said three to four year old male
who loves to just run and play plays
with other dogs don't know if he's cat
friendly or not because I don't have any
cats on my farm but he's obviously very
people friendly and he would have liked
to have jumped on that table and had
some of what Mike was having chicken and
burger now having been trained as
raising dogs well you see this these
days these these dogs are raised in a
litter the the way they're the way they
are chosen is by the speed of the
parents the racing lines and then there
are all trained the same litter is
trained the same way with chasing and
running and a lot of the Greyhound farms
have their own tracks so they do timing
events and when you get the ones out of
the litter that are the ones that are
slow as molasses at 14 15 months old
they can be retired greyhounds and they
can come to a rescue like mine so
technically they're not rescued right
we're not in dire straits or bad
circumstances they just need a place to
go right because they're not gonna the
trainers and owners are not going to
spend the money to send them out to big
tracks to run when they're the poky ones
at their own farms right yeah and he
being a male he's a lot bigger but the
females this is what I would think of
mors yeah Don isn't little donnas a
little girl she's about a fifty pounder
okay yeah and she's through right yeah
you know what I was explaining before is
that done you can pick her head up
c'mere Dona okay the what I was saying
to you before is the difference in the
size between you and me
is basically the difference in size
between Ranger and Donna and they just
range in different sizes and there's
really no way to tell the size they're
going to finish out at the other
interesting thing I was expecting their
coat to be more like a say a Dalmatian
this is their coat is extremely soft
very very soft fur yeah I don't know
what a Dalmatian coat is like but they
and these guys live on a farm I call my
farm a Greyhound farm I have sheep and
goats and all that too but I set up out
there and got in to risk rescuing
greyhounds but again not rescue just
bringing them home so what do folks need
to know if they were thinking about
adopting a greyhound what they need to
know
greyhounds make great couch potatoes and
they're great if they you know want one
to sleep in bed with you I adopted one
out to a couple that just wanted a dog
to lay on the couch with them while they
played video games and there's other
people that want a jog you you get a dog
that's suited to your family life and
what it is that you want to do so and
you can't expect a greyhound just to be
a couch potato a greyhound needs to
sprint they do you need some time to get
a little bit of running out of them
unless they had been injured or
something you know and they can't do it
somebody in an apartment is not going to
be a good great yeah I know I've adopted
I've adopted two people in apartments
there are apartment complexes that have
set up their own actual dog parks okay
in this gated communities apartments but
not all of them and some people are very
good about it they're working and they
come home at lunchtime they take the dog
out for a jog around the block or they
do it in the morning they do it in the
evening they go places with them on
weekends they just do things with them
but they do have to get exercise
got it yeah there's going to be a look
no you can't just have one to just sit
there yeah they look great you know
sitting on the couch and there's a lot
of great pictures of that on my website
but they do they
you need to sprint this is of course
stripes was three years old yeah and
also looking for a good home good with
people and other dogs
all right so folks want to adopt a
greyhound how do they go about doing it
well it can contact me now I understand
through your website my rescue is Beck's
Ida animal sanctuary and iced actually
got that name am I going to off-topic
okay okay I get got the name Beck's out
it because when I became a 501 C 3
nonprofit rescue I had to come up with
the name for Uncle Sam and I was going
to use county line because I lived by
the county line but then somebody else
had it so I was going to have to go
through we Jerry they are very sweet
dogs yeah thank you very much thank you
very much I told you I could go on for
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