Act Fast If You Want to Adopt A Racing Greyhound: The 'Greyhound Glut' Is Over
Some organizations that rescue retired racing greyhounds say the sport had become well-regulated and humane, and they don’t want it to stop, because that will mean no more racing greyhounds to adopt.
My pandemic puppy is a retired racing greyhound. Zoom’s gangly, genial and 3 years old. Sleek and black as an eel — and voluptuously lazy — he’s among hundreds of dogs who suddenly needed homes after COVID-19’s lethal spread across the country closed down race tracks along with most everything else.
Birmingham Race Course in Alabama was where Zoom sprinted a few times a week alongside seven other dogs for a breakneck quarter of a mile. The course reopened in June, offering billiards, darts and betting machines, but no more live dog racing.
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