Here is my very first greyhound Sadie-Grey with her little buddy, Bones. I got her in 1994 when her owners next door built a pool.
On April 11, 1999 an akita took her life...but she opened the door for a whole load of other greyhounds to come in & be in a forever home.
She was the sweetest, most beautiful greyhound I have ever met. She surely changed my life.

what a cute picture...

Awwww Snowy8 , you just melted my heart ! Sadie - Grey is a beautiful name for a special girl . I hope she knows how many hounds are loved because of her!

The story on her was that my neighbors owned a feedstore down here in Olive Branch. A lady came by one day with this greyhound she had found on her front door step. Did they know who owned her? They said no, but there was a greyhound farm down there on Goodman road...maybe she came from there. Well the woman said she had heard "how they're treated" and so she didn't want to take her there. My neighbors said they'd take her. Well they really "liked" her so they kept her & put signs up at some of the stores around here. No one claimed her for a while then someone came by the store one day & said they had heard some one had gotten her after she raced & then decided they didn't want her anymore & turned her loose. This evidently is how she ended up on someone's doorstep. This was in 1987...way before MidSouth Greyhound Adoption Option was at Southland so they must've gotten her from the breeder or owner.
The owner happened to be a large animal vet in Olive Branch who has since died....and the greyhound farm is now a pony farm & vet office which is right down the road from where I live but still has all the makings of a dog farm because of the fencing. I've gone up in there before to buy vet products & some days I sit in the long driveway & eat lunch & watch the baby ponies playing after foaling time. The vet there is a well known Welsh pony breeder/shower.
By the time I had gotten her in 1994 I could've checked her ear numbers to find out who she actually was & who owned her but I was afraid & I mean FEARFUL that someone was still looking for her & would take her away, so I never checked to see who she really was. I wrote her ear numbers down, but I don't have any idea where I put them, I do remember her right ear was something like 54D, that her real birthday was in May of 1984, but I always celebrated it in February when I brought her home with me.
This sweet girl lived out in the backyard, in a little wooden doghouse with straw in it, on cold days I never saw her...sometimes she would stick her feet out the door of the house. During the ice storm of 94, they kept her inside their garage...
The first night I got her, she paced the floor & whimpered. The 2nd night, she stretched out on the couch while a fire was burning in the hearth & slept...I think she had thought she'd died & went to heaven.
She was such a sweet heart...

Tara

What a great story!!

Great picture.