Quoted from Who-Dey:I bet they love their new life and home. They are awesome looking dogs!
Retired race dogs are a funny thing.
A lot of greyhound owners refer to them as the worlds fastest couch potato’s because they love to lounge around all day. You would think they need to get out and run a lot, but really not so much (more like short sprinters). Some people also refer to them as the cats of the dog world because the lounge so much. I figure they have earned it so why not. We have our dogs race records and they both ran over 200 races each.
If a race fog is good, they race the hell out of them, which is what happens with ours.
When greyhounds go up for adoption you mostly find them in two age groups 1 - 1 and a half or around around 4 years old.
The younger dogs are retired at that age because the are not good racers (slow, skittish, distracted etc.). If they are good race dogs they normally don’t retire them until around 4 when they start slowing down from age.
Ours basically aged out because they were getting slower (they are still fast as hell though). We’re on five acres and they have both caught quail and rabbits on the property.
Number one dog rule that we tell people visiting the house:
I you go outside the front door (which is not fenced) make sure you don’t let the dogs out. Keep in mind they are trained to bolt when a door opens. They can get up to 35 miles per hour in three strides and will be out of sight in no time.