Greyhounds are making some amazing commercials – check out this video on YouTube from Absolute Vodka – Breathtaking! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UCwOTR_dHo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Archive of posts filed under the Greyhounds in the News category.
FoG Greyhound is National Skechers Photo Contest Winner!
In the wake of the fuss about Greyhounds in the Super Bowl Skechers commercial, United Greyhound Racing, Tucson Greyhound Park and The National Greyhound Association (the greyhound-data people) held a contest to find an image to capture the true essence of our beloved greyhounds as well as showing support for Skechers’ choice of dogs. Our [...]
What You Missed – The Palm Beach Post
>When Joe and Samantha Forzano chose Sweetie (Sweet n Nice) as a companion for their sheltie, She got a great home and family, and FoG made a great new Friend and supporter. As luck would have it, Joe works for the Palm Beach Post. They allowed him to produce a group of videos about the [...]
Frostproof Is Going Grey.
>When Johnnie and Bill Levin moved from Ft. Lauderdale to Frostproof with their greyhounds Sammie (Isan Som) and Kissie (Kissem Byebye), they fully expected to hook up with the local adoption group and remain as active with them as they were with us. Johnnie & Bill had spent many weekends volunteering at our kennel, delivering [...]
Greyhounds in the News!
>I hope everyone has had a chance to see and read Michael Mooney’s article in NEW TIMES. If you are not familiar with the paper, it is a weekly that is distributed free in boxes where the other newspaper boxes are. It’s always interesting and controversial and our article is all of that. The Broward/Palm [...]
>Orbit goes to Camp! Orbit (Hurcan Washill) and Regall Chava went to visit St. Jerome’s Summer Camp in SW Ft. Lauderdale on Wednesday, July 23rd. They took along Eden (Oneco Eden) and Balli (Kiowa Hix Balli) who belong to Linda Willis. Linda’s daughter Jill helps out at the school and Jill’s son, Tyler, is a [...]
The Zydeco Story
>Greyhound Killed by Pit Bulls. On Monday, October 22nd, Susanne Tenney left her house in Oakland Park with Zydeco, her 11 year old greyhound for a walk in the neighborhood. Zydeco and Susanne loved their neighborhood walks. A few streets from home she was surprised by two pit bulls that had escaped from a neighbor’s [...]
>FoG on Four. Hey, did you see our FoG dogs on TV? Channel 4 and Jade Alexander did a wonderful piece on the kennel and on FoG. If you missed it, you can see it by clicking here. I hope this brings lots and lots of new adopters to the kennel this weekend. Come on [...]
Greyhounds in USA Today
>Very rarely does a story about pets and pet care feature a greyhound. Today, one does. It’s in USA today and the storyis about dogs that are afraid of thunder storms. Interesting article. Not all greyhounds are afraid of thunder (I felt that I should point that out). In fact, most dogs aren’t but the [...]
UK: Greyhounds as Therapy Dogs
> Bobby the greyhound makes friends with little Serena Gambling, aged two, from Thorpe. An article from the Norwich Evening News in the UK details the story of Bobby the greyhound that was afraid to chase the electric lure. Five-year-old Bobby was rescued by Sue Cole after breeders discovered he wouldn’t race – and now [...]
