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hobie16 wrote:Don't get me started about greyhound racing. :mad:

They race busses?

just how fast CAN a senicruiser go?

hobie16 wrote:Don't get me started about greyhound racing. :mad:

Tell me about it.


This beauty, Kelsos Ma Barker, was a racing rescue. Fortunately for her, she had a successful career, and was retired as a brood bitch. My family adopted her when she was six years old.

Now, less than a month and a half past her twelfth birthday, we're having to prepare for her to cross the Rainbow Bridge tomorrow morning. While it hurts, we know that it's for the best. She's no longer able to stand by herself. It's time to end her suffering. Still, she had a far longer, and far happier life than many racing greyhounds.

Our rescue, Mac, came from a Florida track. He was covered in scars from crashing on cinder tracks, would not sit for fear of being hit with a cattle prod, had horrible teeth from all the crap he was fed, and had only known a crate as his bed. He adjusted fast and became a 35 mph couch potato.

He was very sensitive to heat due to the living and racing conditions so when we moved to Maui we found two nurses who were looking for a companion for their female greyhound. He had it good with us and great with the nurses. At fifteen years he was diagnosed with leukemia. For his last two weeks he ate nothing but prime rib and had morphine patches applied to hold off the pain.

Mac was a great dog and a good friend. I still miss the big slob.

CBeilby wrote:Now, less than a month and a half past her twelfth birthday, we're having to prepare for her to cross the Rainbow Bridge tomorrow morning.

A real beauty, indeed. I'm sorry for your loss. I've been through that twice now, both having lived to a happy, ripe old age, but it is very sad tempered by knowing you're doing the right thing. The hardest part for me is thinking I'm hearing the jangle of tags or click of nails on the floor aftwerwards.