Tijuana's racing greyhounds have never seen a home, a sidewalk or a cat. This L.A. group gives them a chance at a second life.
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, greyhounds can run at speeds of up to 45 mph. They’ve been bred for speed, intelligence and agility since ancient times, first for hunting and later for sport racing.
GreySave is one of more than 100 nonprofit greyhound adoption organizations in the U.S.. “Together, they find homes for more than a thousand retired racing greyhounds a year,” says Jim Gartland, executive director of the., the official registry of the breed. “That’s a big step from the old days of greyhound racing, before my time.”
Inga Hammond of San Gabriel nuzzles Raven, a former racing greyhound who just arrived in Chino from Mexico.British coursing evolved into track racing during the 19th century. Around the same time, large numbers of greyhounds were exported to the U.S. from England and Ireland, not to course or race, but to combat an infestation of crop-eating jackrabbits on Midwestern farms. After the invention of the mechanical lure in 1912, the first U.S. greyhound racetrack opened in Emeryville, Calif.
The Tijuana racetrack still races greyhounds 365 days a year and has no plan to stop. GreySave is one of only two adoption groups approved by the greyhound association to bring retired dogs from the Mexican site to the U.S. and put them up for adoption. A team of six, including a Kaiser Permanente doctor, staff the medical station. They draw dogs’ blood, check them for injuries, update their inoculations and insert ID microchips under their skin in case they get lost and end up in a shelter.“Today’s a good day,” Kiburtz says. “We took in our 1,479th dog, and only one had a medical problem.” A volunteer drives a greyhound with two suspected broken toes to a vet, where its foot is X-rayed and wrapped in a splint.
A black 5-year-old named Raven is the oldest retired greyhound in the bunch. There are nicks and scratches on his snout, but he wags his tail high in the air, a sign of confidence. “He raced to the maximum age for a good reason,” says Kiburtz, glancing at a printout of the dog’s racing record. “Out of 377 races, Raven came in first 51 times and second 59 times. He made someone a lot of money.”
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