Home for the holidays takes on a new meaning when you're a displaced racing greyhound whose home track is closing. Some 200 to 250 greyhounds -- premiere athletes of the canine world -- could be ...

The 99-year-old American sport of greyhound racing had been fading away, anyway, but Florida residents all but guaranteed its demise last month by voting overwhelmingly to end greyhound racing in the ...

I knew we had to help. A sea of dogs and their owners flooded onto the street. “No excuse for animal abuse!” the crowd roared, holding up signs that read *let greyhounds run free*. My partner Gary and ...

Figures from various sources suggest anywhere from 8,000 to 15,000 greyhounds currently racing or in training for Florida's final racing seasons will need new homes over the next two years In a sweep ...

As soon as the news broke that Floridians had voted to end greyhound racing, local adoption groups were flooded with calls and applications from across the country. It seemed everyone wanted to bring ...

Every morning Bethpage resident Linda Schmidt, Grateful Greyhound adopter and fosterer, proudly walks her six rescued greyhound companions once around her neighborhood with her husband. She calls her ...

A six year old girl from Kingswinford put kindness before Christmas presents this year by spending her Christmas morning ...

TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - Hundreds of greyhounds are looking for new homes as the Tucson Greyhound Park is preparing to stop racing. The Tucson track is the last one in the state, but a bill that is ...

As regulators and humane organizations look to stamp out dog racing for good, greyhounds as we know them—those spindly speed demons—have become a dying breed. Retired racing greyhounds have made ...

Kathy Conrad of Huber Heights will always remember how devastated she was to hear the news that her beloved dog died suddenly nine days before she was to come home from being deployed with the Air ...

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 ...

Greyhounds are the fastest dogs on the planet. With a small head and a lithe, aerodynamically shaped body as well as strong paws and a proportionately bigger heart than that of any other dog breed, ...