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Dapper Doggos 🎩

Robert recently won first place at pups in the parks best dressed event 🐾

He strutted his stuff around the arena and went home very pleased with himself with his blue ribbon and new prizes!

Photo credit to Canines of Cork

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I did an ink portrait of my beautiful foster boy, Brice ( @good.dog.fosterer ). . I'm getting excited for #inktober ! I don't think I'll be able to participate every day (because I'm moving house and also doing @finders_keepers in October) but I'll do my best!!! Who else is doing #inktober this year?! . . . #illustration #drawing #art #design #ink #painting #greyhound #adoptadog #adoptdontshop #rescue #fosterdog #petsnotbets https://www.instagram.com/p/BoBCFhPHGXD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3txcz6mxs95q

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Love is like a wildflower garden, there’s all sorts of colours to be found 🌈

Today is the last day of Pride Month, and what better way to mark it than a colourful rainbow of hounds in a rainbow wildflower garden! 🌸 Us Greyhounds come in all colours and sizes, and we don’t care who our humans love as long as they love us too! There’s no room for hate or bigotry in our Rescue Hound Pack (unless it’s hating Greyhound Racing of course! ❌)!

We hope everyone had a joyous Pride Month! Stay Loud and Proud 🌈

#ImageDescription: Robert the Greyhound (fawn/blonde) stands beside Molly (brindle) and Ned (Black) the Greyhounds wearing anti-racing vests and rainbow bandanas in a wildflower garden.

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Happy Easter from our Household to Yours 🐣

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Boo! 👻

Doing a Heckin Spook this Howl-O-Ween Season! 🎃

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“You can’t force a Dog to Run”

That is a sentence used by practically every pro-greyhound racing supporter at some stage during any greyhound racing argument. And there’s a kernel of truth there, you can’t stop a dog from running, and Greyhound do indeed love to run and have a genetic instinct to chase. But what happens when the dog doesn’t want to run?

This is Greyhound “Songful Bird”. She is 23 months old, born and bred in Ireland, exported and racing in the UK. Whilst being loaded into Trap Two at Kinsley Greyhound Track, Songful Bird very clearly did not want to enter the box and struggled to get away from the steward/handler. She made a break from the box but was pinned to the ground by Four grown men and roughly manhandled back into the trap. Upon leaving the box, she veers dramatically across the track, almost clipping another dog and endangering the rest with her erratic running pattern. This is not a dog running for fun, but a dog, panicked and running in fear.

Songful Bird very clearly did not want to race at this occasion, and despite her attempt to flee, was forced into a situation where she was distressed, roughly handled and potentially suffered physically injury but the grown man falling ontop of her or the resulting blind panic run away from her aggressors. The race should have been stopped at the first sign of issue, or the very least, Songful Bird should have been pulled from the running. But the bookmakers were already set up and ready, and for them, the show must go on.

Very telling that none of the stewards present felt anything was wrong forcefully shoving the dog into the trap, and that neither a track vet or welfare officer stepped in at any point to remove the clearly distressed dog from the situation. If welfare was truly at the heart of Greyhound Racing, Songful Bird would not have been put through this abuse.

If you love Dogs, Dont Support Greyhound Racing.

TW: #AnimalAbuse, #DogAbuse, #PhysicalManhandling, #DogNeglect, #DistressedAnimal, #DistressedDog

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You have been ✨Booped✨

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Fifty Shades Of GreyHOUND 💕

The Rescue Hound met up for a Valentines Themed Walk ❤️ Spreading love and licks everywhere they go, showing off just how GREYT Greyhounds are as Pets! What’s not to love about Greyhounds? 💕

Greyhounds are;

Laid Back and Easy Going; known as the 45km/hr couch potatoes!

Great for households with limited mobility; 2 twenty minute strolls a day and they are happy out!

Relatively low shedders compared to other breeds; lack of oils in the coat make for low odour too!

Not big barkers, though the GSOD is something to be aware of!

Big Dog, Small Space Requirements; Greyhounds restful nature makes them fabulous apartment pets!

Wonderful wardrobe; Due to their delicate skin and low body fat, Greyhounds feel the cold, so dressing them in all manner of colourful coats and cosy pjs is necessary and vibrant!

Foodie Furiends; Greys are known for their foodie nature, enjoying human goodies like puppaccinos, toast, snossidges and more, No fussy hounds here!

Wacky weirdos; Greyhounds are full of quirks, from roaching to docking, roping to chittering, the breed really does have something special about it!

So what are you waiting for? Add some love to your life and adopt a Greyhound!