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 ...

With Florida outlawing dog racing by year’s end, a local pet adoption group has taken in an influx of Greyhounds needing new homes. Now, the coronavirus pandemic has hastened some early racetrack ...

Greyhounds are an easily recognizable breed of dog due to their long-leggedness and lean body. Skeletal remains of a dog thought to be a Greyhound or similar sighthound have been found in the ancient ...

Nittany Greyhounds’ President Bob Koch pets Bolt, a greyhound from Ireland, at the adoption facility Dec. 8. Mirror photo by Matt Churella Whenever greyhounds retire from their racing careers, their ...

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 ...

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 ...

MIAMI, Dec. 5 (UPI) --Weeks after Florida voters approved an amendment to ban greyhound racing, people from around the world are reaching out to adopt the dogs out of fear they might be euthanized if ...

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 ...

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 ...

Greyhound adoption organizations have received so many applications, officials believe that the number of potential owners will outnumber the racing greyhounds in need of homes A decades-long ...