The greyhound racing world is gradually getting smaller. As popularity wains, tracks run less races and there is less profit in the “Sport of Queens”, fewer kennels and puppy farms, trainers and dogs, are needed at any given time. We are definitely seeing a difference in the dogs we receive. Don’t get me wrong – [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Special Needs Dogs category.
SLOOOOOWWWW Adoptions!
We’re in the last week of April, National Adopt a Greyhound Month, and our adoptions are slow, slow, slow. Let’s get off the couch and make room for a new dog. I am going to do some wheeling and dealing to move some dogs out right now. Ten Reasons to Adopt a Greyhound right now: [...]
Rising Prices
>This is a blog entry I have resisted writing for many weeks but I cannot postpone it any longer. When we incorporated Friends of Greyhounds, we arbitrarily set our adoption fee at $175. We didn’t know enough about this business to have a rationale for the price. It just seemed fair. And it has been [...]
>Be A Friend to Orbit The Greyhound. Hurcan Washill (called Orbit by his friends) is a wonderful dog who is still looking for his forever home. We want to try a little bit of electronic marketing for him and I’m hoping each and every one of you who reads this will help. Orbit has a [...]
Extra Special Dog – Extra Special Home
>Well, the Campbell family from Parkland, yes the same Campbell family that adopted CF’s Charlie Boy, our 500th Adoption, has etched their names in FoG’s hearts again. Anyone who has looked at our dogs in the past 6 months has seen our special dog, Shane (Baby Let’s Cruise). Shane is going blind and we’ve worried [...]
Extra Special Dog – Shane
>Every so often we have a dog that needs an extra special home for one reason or another. Shane is one of those extra special dogs. His real name is Baby Lets Cruise and he’s a big, gorgeous boy. He was in a home for a while but he whined a lot and he was [...]
