When we really saw what was going on there our eyes were opened and it really changed our perspective
There is a darker underbelly to the greyhound racing world
The reality for these dogs is once they stop racing through injury or age, if they don't find a home
oftentimes they're euthanized.
I'm Joyce McRorie and I rescue greyhounds.
I was I think in my 40's and I didn't have a dog, I wasn't even thinking about race greyhounds and how they were or how they lived.
But the temperament seemed to
be perfect for me. So I adopted, we adopted our first dog robber and he just was so
human. And look you straight in the eye, those dogs will look you in the eye and they
appreciate everything I think they just appreciative dogs. I think they they
really like to be with people. They're with people almost their whole lives even
when they're at the track they're with a trainer there but the very human and a very
connected to you. If I'm stressed I see it in in my dogs, you know and that calms me down.
So the foster situation
is better for the dog and better for the person who adopts a dog because it comes
from the track into a home.
When it's in the home it becomes a pet. We have a tremendous amount of people
helping us out and every one of them is sincere and honest. Hi this is
Courtney calling with Fast Friends greyhound adoption, how are you? I just
wanted to go over
retired racer basics and kind of introduced you to retired racers and
some information you need to know if you do end up adopting a dog from us.
Sometimes we have foster homes for five dogs sometimes we have foster homes for 20,
sometimes we don't have any.
We'll be going and we'll be bringing in at least 8 dogs on Saturday.
He's only 16 months old so he's just full of himself aren't you?
It's hard the first couple of times and we lose people as fosters because
they'll keep their foster and they only want one dog and that's it. When we first started
we knew that the dogs we didn't take and they weren't able to race anymore that they
would be put down. It was it was very hard to leave them behind, you looking at
the dogs that get done at the track, they're ready to come home and there's no place for
them to go. What do you do with that? You do the best you can and that's it and so
we started a group up here sometimes we have many as 60 dogs in foster homes.
Once people have any connection with a Greyhound, they don't walk away I mean it's
just that the connection that they make because I think they're they're very
human.
When we got to meet these dogs for the first time, it was literally like life-changing.
We've got to meet 4 of them at a time and then we went to another place the where there was
24 of them. When we first met them we we sat on the floor and these four dogs
came around us and just so innocently inquisitively sniffed our faces and
really connected with us and we fell in love with these dogs. We both left we
gotta get Greyhounds.
Across the country, really in trouble in terms of finding enough homes for these dogs.
And getting them into facilities or foster homes.
So this dog pretty much will become extinct when there is the racing industry's gone which
is you know it's kind of a mixed blessing I guess. I think a bit beginning
it was oh we're gonna rescue this dog, in the end it's boy do I have a great dog here. Maybe I'll get another one.
Some people maybe just get them because they want to save a life but once we get the
dog the most important thing is the dog in a relationship they have with the dog.
But it would be nice if we can just get it to where they're done already. Thank you Randy.
yeah Thank you Randy that's very good. Anyway my hope is that at least we're we're concerned
is that we can keep going until they don't need us anymore. That would be
lovely.
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