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• ACTIVITIES
  • A Visit to the Greyhound Hall of Fame
  • Agility as a Bonding Tool
  • Fighting Cabin Fever
  • Giving at the Animal Bloodmobile
  • Gone To The Dogs (Camp)
  • Greyhounds Go Volksmarching
  • Greyhounds Go Volksmarching – A Second Look
  • Have Hound, Will Travel
  • How To Get Started In Lure Coursing
  • How to Prepare Your Greyhound for Relocation
  • Ideas For Making Pet Therapy More Fun And Exciting
  • In Chattanooga They Like To Run
  • Lure Coursing (Conditioning)
  • Lure Coursing: The Sport For Unfit Humans
  • Lure Training for Beginners
  • Olly Visits Kindergarten
  • On The Road With Pharaoh and Phoebe
  • Pet Therapy To Therapy Pet
  • Photographing Your Greyhound
  • Stealth, My Flyball Greyhound
  • The Grand Old Dames of Dewey
  • Tracking with Greyhounds
  • We Are The Champions!
• ADOPTERS’ BASIC INFO
  • A Martingale Collar is Only as Safe as You Adjust It
  • A Simple Primer To Help You Understand Your Greyhound
  • Crating: How long is too long?
  • Difficult Lessons
  • Excel: Excellent with Cats After All
  • Greyhound Parenting
  • Home Dental Care for Your Greyhound*
  • How to Read Your Greyhound’s Ear Tattoos
  • Muzzles Are Our Friends
  • On Cats and Hounds
  • Physiological Aspects of Separation Anxiety in Dogs
  • SOCIALIZATION? OR HABITUATION?
  • Sparky’s Story~How She Was Captured
  • The Why and How of Pedigrees and How to Read a Pedigree Chart
  • Thinking Like a Dog
  • Thoughts On Corns: An Analysis
  • To Pee or Not to Pee: Where? is the Question
  • What Is My Greyhound Trying To Tell Me?
• ADOPTION/RESCUE HISTORY
  • A Unique Partnership
  • Early Adoption Pioneers ~1956-98
  • Guidant 1~Without Owners’ Consent – 2001
  • Guidant 2~Ground Zero – 2001
  • Gyro, A Guidant Greyhound – 2009
  • Saving the Davis Greyhounds~1989
  • Saving the Presidio Greyhounds~1989
  • Sharon Murphy Tribute
  • The Christmas Rescue Greyhound
  • The Middleboro Nine ~ 1997
  • Twelve Fewer Dogs~1997
• ADOPTIONS
  • Fast Times at N.G.A. (Northern Greyhound Adoptions)
  • How to Be a Foster Parent
  • Is Fostering Greyhounds a Worthwhile Experience?
  • The Importance of Fostering
  • The Ups and Downs of Fostering
  • Why Don’t We Talk About What Our Dogs Really Are?
• BEHAVIOR & TRAINING
  • BASIC TRAINING
    • Cajun and the Joy of Jockstraps
    • Call The Manager! New Dog Dilemmas
    • Controlling a High-Prey Grey
    • Coprophagia & Urination Troubles
    • Great Greyhound Motivators — Praise, Play, Treats, and Toys
    • How to Get your Dog’s Attention
    • Le Muzzle: An Amusing Look at This Wonderful Gadget
    • Teaching Pets
    • Ten Tips For Newly-Adopted Greyhounds
    • The Morning “Feather” Report (Crating)
    • To Pee or Not to Pee: Where? is the Question
  • Behavior Links
  • BEYOND BASIC TRAINING
    • A Greyhound’s Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
    • Enriching Our Dog’s Lives
    • Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks
    • The World of Clicker Training
    • Training Without the Clicker
  • BODY LANGUAGE, THINKING & COMMUNICATION
    • “Teddy, again you made me a happy fool!”
    • Calming Signals: How to Interpret and Use Dog Language
    • Dominance Theory: Leave it for the wolves
    • Everyone’s Gotta Be Somewhere*
    • Let’s Talk – Communicate Telepathically With Your Pets
    • The Art of Animal Communication: New Age or New Tool?
    • The Pack Instinct: No Such thing?
    • Thinking Like a Dog
    • What Is My Greyhound Trying To Tell Me?
  • EMOTIONAL ISSUES
    • Another Anxiety Remedy: The DAP Diffuser
    • Dogs With Emotional Difficulties
    • Greyhounds Coping With Sorrow
    • Idiopathic Fear and Withdrawal In Greyhounds
    • Robbie Who Lived In A Closet
    • Separation Anxiety~Dr Machery
    • The Metamorphosis of Robbie
    • Thunderstorm Phobia: or Pass the Prozac, Please!
    • Thunderstorm-Phobia (Machery)
    • When Your Greyhound’s Personality Changes
  • GETTING ALONG
    • All in the Family: Kids, Dogs, and Keeping the Peace!
    • Bear and Marty — Staring Fear in the Face
    • Excel: Excellent with Cats After All
    • Greyhounds Are Like Potato Chips
    • Greyhounds, Children, and Babies
    • Kittens and Greyhounds: A Mix that Can Match
  • TALES FROM THE COUCH – Lee Livingood
    • Doc, It Hurts When I Do This
    • Life Skills 101
    • No Rules…Just Right
    • When Words Get in the Way
• CARE & COMFORT
  • Bugs, Bugs and More Bugs
  • Interview With a Pet-sitter
  • Is Advantage ™ Safe to use on Greyhounds?
  • I’m Mr. Cool
  • Leaving Your Dog at a Boarding Kennel
  • Martha Norwalk Speaks About Hounds*
  • Skin and Coat Problems in the Retired Greyhound
• CRAFTS
  • All Greyhounds Are Angels
  • Counting Hounds
  • Decorate Your Home With Greyhounds!
  • Fancy Collars
  • Greyhound Appliques
  • Greyhound Costumes
  • Greyhound Santa
  • Home-made Steps
  • Make a Greyhound Coat
  • Make A Portable Pen For Your RV Or Trailer
  • Poop: It’s a Terrible Thing to Waste
  • Quick Gifts for Fast Dogs
  • Quick Hound Toys
  • Raised-Bowl Feeder
  • Shake, Shake, Shake Your Bootie
  • Shaker Shelf and Leash Holder
  • The Greyt Crate Sofa Table
  • Wrapping a Greyt Gift
• FEEDING, NUTRITION & WEIGHT
  • Core Strength, Hydration and Determining Your Greyhound’s Ideal Weight
  • Feeding Your Greyhound for Health and Fitness*
  • Food — What Else Can I Do?
  • Greyhound Gas and Proper Weight
  • Home-made “Canned” Dog Food
  • Homemade Liverwurst Pill Pockets – Unknown
  • Hounds Battle the Bulge
  • How can I get my greyhound to lose weight?
  • How to Know if Your Greyhound is at the Proper Weight
  • Kyolic, Barley Dog and Knox Gelatin
  • Last Meals: Feeding the Terminally Ill Dog
  • On Food Additives
  • Optimizing Nutrition: Vitamins and Minerals
  • Sodium and Dogs
  • What My Dogs Eat
• FICTION & POEMS
  • A Greyhound’s Christmas Wish (1995)
  • Azor – A Fictional Story Based on Fact
  • Blitzen’s Christmas Adventure
  • Coventry and the Red Bitch
  • How The Greyhounds Saved Christmas
  • Just One More Day
  • To A Black Greyhound
• FIRST AID/INJURIES
  • Bandaging a “Happy Tail” – Machery
  • Healing Pippy’s Knee
  • Heimlich Maneuver for Greyhounds
  • How to Give Your Dog CPR
  • Sally’s First Aid Kit
  • Sally’s Tail-Bandaging-with-a-Curler Method
  • Spinal Injury: Take it Seriously
  • Tail-Bandaging Tips
  • The Unsinkable Darbie O’Gill
  • Torn Webbing Quick-Fix Tip
• FUND RAISERS
  • Celebrating Greyhounds Around the World On Greyhound Planet Day
  • How to Plan a Volksmarch
  • Northcoast Greyhound Support Group
  • Riding for Ex-Racers: Bicyclists Raise Money for the Hounds
• GREYHOUND STORIES – INSPIRING & SWEET
  • A Special Friendship
  • Adopted at Eleven: Sadie’s Saga
  • Bob, The Wonder Dog
  • Eunice, Alfie & Sentimenal With Hurricane Andrew
  • Genie!
  • Love Conquers
  • Nawty’s Legacy
  • Nothin’ But Blue Skye
  • Raising Aimee – A Baby Skunk
  • Seniors Citizens and Adopted Greyhounds Live Happily Ever After
  • She’s Beautiful. She’s Smart, She’s Jo Ann
  • The Butternut Notes
  • The Mighty “Q”
  • They’re My Kids!
• GROOMING
  • Bath Time For Bowser
  • Home Dental Care for Your Greyhound*
  • Regular Nail Maintenance: A Must!
  • The Big Wash – 62 in about 3 Hours!
• HALL OF FAME/RACING
  • Beachcomber
  • Couch Potato, Meet Crate Potato
  • Dear Tucson-About Testosterone
  • Downing~The Dog Who Delivered
  • EJ’s Douglas & HB’s Commander
  • Famous Greyhounds of the Past
  • Forced To Run? Exploding the Myth
  • HEARTS and MINDS
  • Help Wanted: Greyhound Rescuers
  • Hi There-An Irish Stud
  • Injuries in Racing Greyhounds
  • Kinto Nebo-Poor Racer, Good Mom
  • Lippy and the Goddess of the Hunt
  • Lucky Pilot and Johnny Leonard
  • Marsha and Her Greyhounds/Answers
  • Master Chee
  • Meet Wayne Firestone
  • Nobody Likes a Wet Dog
  • P’s Rambling-World’s Fastest Dog?
  • Primacy
  • Rural Rube-Racing Legend
  • Rusty
  • The Draft Dog and the Racing Gods
  • THE PEDIGREE OF HB’s COMMANDER, THE AMERICAN DERBY, AND WHY RACING GREYHOUNDS RACE
  • The Truth About Injury Reporting
  • Traffic Officer: Grandaddy of Them All
  • Treva’s Pride and Joy
  • What does a trainer do?
  • Who’s On First? The Greyhound Racing Industry Explained
  • Why They Stayed Through Irma
• HERO HOUNDS
  • Ashley – My Heroine in Brindle
  • Bob: Making A Career Out Of Being A Hero
  • Fella Foils a Thief
  • Heroes in our Houses
  • Heroic Greyhounds Of The Past
  • Lucy the Guardian Angel Doll
  • Lulu-A Home-Trained Service Greyhound
  • Mocha, our heroine
  • Niles: My Hero
  • Niles: Once, Twice, Three Times a Hero
  • One Scary Night
  • Rita, the Reluctant Heroine
  • Tales of Two Heroes
  • Tasha: The Greyhound Watchdog
• HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY
  • A Friend of Greyhounds
  • Coursing On The Western Prairies (1899)
  • Custer’s Greyhounds
  • Early Obedience Greyhounds – Some Racing Bred
  • EOS — Beloved Greyhound of HRH Prince Albert
  • Greyhounds and Lurchers in The Great War
  • Greyhounds in the Sky
  • Home Life In Ancient Greece
  • Master McGrath – Ireland’s Famous Coursing Greyhound
  • Presidential Library Welcomes The Greyhounds
  • Racing and Coursing Greyhounds in the Show Ring
  • Racing for Peanuts; Monkey Jockeys of the ’30s
  • The Dogs of the Tournament of Roses
  • The Little Greyhound That Could
  • The Magnanimous Lady From Canyon, Texas
  • The Merry Prankster ~ A Champion in the Ring
  • Twelfth Century Greyhounds in Merry Old England
  • Waterloo~A Coursing Pilgrimage
  • When Greyhound Bus Had a Real Greyhound
  • Who is Joan Dillon?
  • Who Is Patricia Gail Burnham?
• HOME
• HUMOR
  • A Humorous Look at the Greyhound Anatomy
  • A Walk in the Park on a Cool, Breezy Day…PRICELESS
  • And Then There Was Ed
  • CUTE THINGS HOUNDS DO
  • Do Greyhounds Hold Grudges?
  • Frankie The Wonder Dog
  • Greyhound Ghost Pregnancy Confirmed!
  • Hounds and Sounds
  • Life with the Class Clown
  • On Greyhounds, Computers, Star Trek and Balloons
  • Pilot Learns To Pee
  • Pilot, The Bravo Pup
  • Saved By The Bus
  • The Blues Brothers Meet Betty White
  • The Greyhound Guide to Sleep
  • Turbo Signs the Birthday Card
  • Turbo Stays With a Sitter
  • Turbo Visits the Hall of Fame
  • “Panty, Queasy and Fainty”*
  • We’re going to need a bigger bed
• KIRA SERIES – P. Gail Burnham
  • 1. Prologue
  • 2. Life Triumphs
  • 3. Puppyhood
  • 4. The Photogenic Period
  • 5. Braveheart Flies To Arizona
  • 6. Months Four Through Six
  • 7. Star Trek with Greyhounds
  • 8. The Fight/Kira Leaves the Litter
  • 10. Visiting the Veterinarian
  • 9. Sheena and Spode Face Tumors
  • 11. Kira’s First Halloween and Sheena’s Surgery
  • 12. Celebrating Sheena’s Recovery
  • 13. Small Deer’s Magic Tricks
• MEDICAL & PHYSIOLOGY
  • ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
    • Reiki Reaches the Beach
    • Using Acupuncture To Make Your Greyhound Feel Younger
    • Why Use Acupuncture?
  • ANESTHESIA & SURGICAL
    • High Potassium During Anesthesia Causes Greyhound Sudden Death
    • Laser Surgery
    • Malignant Hyperthermia: What is it?
    • When Surgery Is Necessary
  • BLOOD, HEART, VASCULAR
    • Aortic Thromboembolism: Are Greyhounds at Risk?
    • Blood Donors
    • Dog Collapsed? Be Proactive
    • FCE: The Increasingly Common Condition With The Uncommon Name
    • Fred’s Miracle: From Total Paralysis to Whole Hound
    • Heart of the Matter
  • CANCERS/CANCER SURVIVORS
    • Dogs of Hope 2004: Long-term Osteosarcoma Survivor Stories
    • Dogs of Hope: Long-term Osteosarcoma Survivors Part 2
    • Savanna’s Story (Osteo)
    • Theo: Making the “Right” Choice – Osteo Dog
  • COLOR GENETICS~HOW THEY GET SO COLORFUL
    • Rainbow Colors – Rainbow Greyhounds
    • Rainbow Colors – Rainbow Greyhounds (Scanned Article, Photo Intensive)
  • CORNS
    • Corn links
    • Corns Overview
    • Thoughts On Corns: An Analysis
  • DIGESTIVE
    • Duffy’s Bout with Pancreatitis: Causes and Treatment of Canine Pancreatitis
    • Metronidazole, Aka Flagyl®
    • Slippery Elm Bark Powder and The Potato Diet
    • Stool Appearance Means a Lot
    • Surviving Gastric Torsion
    • The Big “D”: Causes of Serious Diarrhea
    • The Scoop on Poop
  • DISEASES-INCLUDING TICK
    • How to Avoid Zoonoses
    • Kelly’s Unorthodox Battle with Lyme Disease
    • Leptospirosis – A Silent, Deadly Disease
    • Lyme Disease: What are the Signs?
    • Machery Hemangiomas
    • Our Christmas Miracle: Ruptured Spleen Recovery
    • Symmetrical Lupoid Onychodystrophy “SLO”
    • The Kono Canines~Chronic Pyogranulomitis Cellulitis
    • Tick Disease Overview
    • Tucker’s Mystery Illnesses – Lyme, GN, and Other Weird Symptoms
    • Vestibular Diseases
  • EARS-EYES-NOSE-THROAT
    • A Closer Look at Pannus
    • Laryngeal Paralysis~Moo’s Blues
    • Pannus
    • The Eyes Have It
    • The Nose Knows
  • ENDOCRINE
    • Diabetes Insipidus–Tauren’s Rare Disorder
    • Dodds ~ Thoughts on Hypothyroidism
  • LAB WORK & TESTS
    • Greyhound Lab Work
    • The Meaning of a Complete Blood Count (CBC)
  • MUSCULOSKELETAL
    • Cauda Equina (aka LS)
    • Dapoochy
    • Oh, my aching back …
  • NEUROLOGICAL
    • Epileptic Dogs: Hard to Adopt, Hard to Resist
    • Seizures
  • PARASITES
    • Nose worms!
    • Why Not Organo-phosphates?
    • Worms, Worms, and More Worms!
  • Physiological Aspects of Separation Anxiety in Dogs
  • URINARY
    • The Renal System of the Greyhound
    • Urinary Incontinence Drugs: PPA & DES
    • You know Urine Trouble When…
• MEDICAL WEBSITE LINKS
• PUPPIES, SPECIAL NEEDS & SENIORS
  • Adapting to Blindness
  • Caring for the Hypothyroid Dog
  • Construction for a Cancer Patient: Josie’s Ramp
  • Greyhound Litter Box
  • Kennel Pups!
  • Last Meals: Feeding the Terminally Ill Dog
  • Living With Kidney Disease
  • Old Greyhound Common Conditions
  • Senior Citizen Hounds
• REVIEWS – BOOKS & PRODUCTS
  • Child-Proofing Your Dog
  • Going to the Dogs: Greyhound Racing, Animal Activism, and American Popular Culture
  • Greyhounds
  • Leader of the Pack
  • Moose, Bruce and the Goose
  • Pets Living with Cancer: A Pet Owner’s Resource
  • Surviving the Heartbreak of Choosing Death for Your Pet
  • Swiftly
  • The Buster Cube
  • The Culture Clash
  • The Doctor’s Book Of Home Remedies For Dogs And Cats
  • The Natural Dog: A Complete Guide for Caring Owners
  • The Nature of Healing
  • The Other End of the Leash
  • The Unicorn Tapestries
  • Treats, Play, Love: Make Dog Training Fun For You and Your Best Friend
  • Video: Pet Emergency First Aid-Dogs
• SAFETY
  • A Good Fence Is the Best Defense
  • A Martingale Collar is Only as Safe as You Adjust It
  • Beware~11-12/92
  • Beware~2-5/93
  • Coffee, Cola, Tea, M&Ms?
  • Collars: What To Wear Where
  • Devil Dog Does It Again
  • Dog Bites: Let’s Prevent Them!
  • Greyhounds and Fireworks
  • Have Fence, Will Travel
  • How not to Become a Member of the Runaway’s Club
  • How Safe is an Off-Lead Run?
  • In Praise of the Much Maligned Muzzle
  • Rabies Scare: The Other Part Of “Preach” Is Practice
  • The Fine Art of Taking a Walk
  • The Leash: The Canine-Human Connection
  • Using a Retractable Lead Correctly
  • Warning: Poisonous Plants and Other Toxins
• THINK PIECES
  • Daisy, The Returned Dog
  • Don’t Let Your Bias Show
  • Greyhound HEART
    • Capturing the Flag of 100% Adoption
  • Niles: The Eyes Have It
  • The Charm of the Old Greyhound
  • The Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Adopt A Second (Third?) Greyhound
  • What Shane Taught Me
  • When is it Time to Say Goodbye?
• UNCLASSIFIABLE & UNIQUE
  • A Treasure Trove of Greyhound Trivia
  • Chinese Astrology for Greyhounds
  • Finding a Rental Home
  • Greyhounds As Guides And Teachers
  • Naming Your Greyhound
  • Numerology for Greyhounds
  • Selling a House When It’s Gone to the Dogs
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