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OHIO GREYHOUND GATHERING AND ADOPTION, Canton, OH (2025)

01/02/2025

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12/29/2024

On the last Sunday of the year...have a great day. ❄️

12/21/2024

12/17/2024

Beware of the puppy!😂

12/17/2024

Animals avoid things they have negative associations with. This behavior is a result of a process called aversive conditioning, where an animal learns to associate a particular stimulus with an unpleasant experience.
One should look it up, if in doubt, but it certainly doesn't sound illogical, does it? It's the same principal as when applied to humans: if something bad or aversive happens over and over again, do you just keep on doing it? Chances are the answer is a resounding NO. No animal will willingly continue to do something knowing it has negative consequences and bad associations/memories attached to it. Given this quite logical and easily proven theory, are Greyhounds simply too stupid to realize that each and every time they step on a track at a professional race course, they are going to be chasing that ever elusive stuffed bone or bunny?

Hardly, and experts in veterinary science readily acknowledge the independent (to the point of almost being stubborn about it) and highly intelligent nature of greyhounds. Dr Kho-Pelfrey, DVM, expertly describes greyhounds when she states:
"In fact, it is proven that
greyhounds are quite the intelligent and
independent thinkers, and will become
quite stubborn to do any human bidding
if they see no benefit in it for themselves." *

How many professional greyhound races have you attended or watched? How many greyhounds have you seen bucking and pulling away from a leadout walking them to the starting boxes? Have you ever observed anyone or anything pushing or dragging a greyhound around the race course?

Are you willing to logically accept that if greyhounds do not wish to run and chase, that they simply won't do it? Give the breed credit for being what they are and doing what satisfies them. Respect them for being intelligent enough and independent enough to be the exquisite hunters and chasers that has defined them for centuries.

*Teresa Kho-Pelfrey, DVM
https://www.petmd.com/dog/breeds/greyhound