Pets Thread

[popeyespappy]

Greyhounds don't take up much space.

Whenever we do an adoption event they always put us next to the greyhounds - alphabetical order...go...gr, not many combinations in between. Both Goldens and Greyhounds are quiet breeds. They stand there looking at each other except for the occasional butt sniff. There is a greyhound track down by Tucson and their president and I were swapping stories one time and she told me that most of the dogs they take in have leg fractures from the strain of racing. The breeders - damn them all to be forced to drink lava - have bred them so that their bones are so light and brittle that they can't stand the pounding of what they are breeding them to do.

So much for intelligent fucking design.

Pops broke both his hocks during his 77 race professional career. He will be 13 next month and is much the worse for all the wear and tear. I'm not convinced the problem is thin brittle bones as much as it is those huge freaking rear biceps. Racing greys do have one thing going for them in the breeding department. Polygenic traits like hip dysplasia that affect a large number of other pure breeds are practically unheard of in racers.

That adoption group is special if most of the hounds they get are special needs. Pop's surgery on his last broken hock ran about $4,000 and that was in 04.