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On the first day, God created the Greyhound.
On the second day, God created man to serve the Greyhound.
On the third day, God created the animals of the Earth to serve as potential food for the Greyhound.
On the fourth day, God created honest toil so that man could labor for the good of the Greyhound.
On the fifth day, God created the tennis ball so that the Greyhound could or could not retrieve it.
On the sixth day, God created veterinary science to keep the Greyhound healthy and the man broke. (AMEN!!!)
On the seventh day, God tried to rest, but he had to walk the Greyhound……
(Unknown author)
On the eighth day, God believeth that He was done, but Lo! The Garden of Eden was full of Greyhound poop and craters. Adam & Eve, having been banished from the garden, no longer dwelleth therein to serve the Greyhound, so it came to pass that He had to clean the mess up Himself. And God was displeased.
On the ninth day, God sayeth unto the Heavens, “Who hath dominion here, me or the Greyhound?
On the tenth day, God came upon the Greyhound cockroached on His throne and abideth there unmoving, despite all His beseeching.
And so it came to pass that God had his answer. He then sayeth unto Moses, “Fine! You’re in charge now. Here’s my ten commandments. You deal with the Greyhound! I’m retiring to Miami Beach!
And Moses convinced the Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of bondage in Egypt and journey to the Promised Land. God sayeth unto Moses, “The Promised Land shall be yours, but you must take the Greyhound with you.
And so it came to pass that the Israelites wandered for 40 years in the wilderness, waiting for the Greyhound to go potty, mark every bush and sniff every blade of grass in its domain.
And the Greyhound was fruitful and multiplied.
The people were taken by the comliness and manner of the Greyhound, but they were sorely distressed. “Lord” they cried out, “The Greyhound is an attractive and sweet creature, but there are so many, what shall we do?”
And God sayeth unto the people, “Ye are a cursed people and shall be known as adopters! Thy yards shall be barren of grass. Thy dwellings shall overflow with dog beds, squeaky toys and Greyhound kitsch. Thy carpets shall be forever stained. Thy vet bills shalt be large and thy lives forever ordered around by the Greyhound. And thy minds shall be muddled, as thou shalt treat thy Greyhounds as thy do your human offspring.”
And Adopters begat Chippers. And Chippers begat Fosters. And Fosters begat Adoption Groups. And Adoption Groups begat Discussion Lists. And Discussion Lists begat Gatherings. And Gatherings begat Vendors. And Vendors begat a wardrobe for the Greyhound. And the Greyhound was spoiled.
God looked down on this and was pleased.
(Author unknown)

Just unfollowed PBKC as there is nothing more for me anymore 🙁 Urge anyone that had them followed for the dogs to do the same thing.

Greyhound-data is updated with the last of the 2020 races. This includes the final races at Palm Beach Kennel Club. The result charts were finally updated. My heart is heavy as I remove the last of the Florida tracks from my scripts for Greyhound-data.

Stats for 2020:
36358 races ran on North American Tracks down from 52626 in 2019.

11426 individual dogs ran in North America over 2020. 5806 ran their last race on a Florida track before moving to another state or adoption. This includes the 585 at Derby Lane, 361 at Orange Park, 815 at Palm Beach that were prematurely retired by the deceit of the AR groups and the greed of the tracks.

In 2020 we had 283133 individual starts across all North American tracks, this is down from 438193 individual starts in 2019.

May 2021 be better to our breed and may the general public gain a better understanding of the damage done. May the Arkansas Kennel Association change their course and perhaps find some other avenue to continue racing. May the leaders in the NGA and the rest of the racing world finally understand that a new model for racing has to happen if it is to survive. May the politicians that support racing continue to understand the love of the breed, the race, and the people involved. I do not want to turn off another track in my upkeep of greyhound data.

Feel free to share and add your wisdom. I will delete negative comments.

It hurts to post this, but the following links will show all dogs that have run on the 3 final Florida tracks in the last 30 days of their operation. We are still updating adoption and dog placement records so please do not jump me if you already sent me information and it is not there, it is a work in progress. Please note: These are dogs that have ran graded races only, I do not capture schooling races. The gdata_id number column has a link that will take you to the dogs greyhound-data page. The final 3 days of racing are not uploaded to greyhound-data yet as there appears to be a problem in the process. Waiting on a response. The end goal is to account for each and every dog. For dogs that have moved to another track they will fall off these lists the day after they run a graded race at their new track.

Derby Lane: http://198.0.3.161/html/dl_dogs.php

Orange Park: http://198.0.3.161/html/op_dogs.php

Palm Beach: http://198.0.3.161/html/pb_dogs.php

Working with Greyhound-data to try and get the last few days of 2020 imported. Something changed on the site and it broke all of my scripts. I have the final years data, but just can’t get it to upload. Will update as soon as I possibly can.

The local redneck assholes are already shooting off their fireworks. This year they have something bigger, it is almost like a cannon going off. They set the first one off while we were walking the dogs, and then a few more since then. Lady is about to have a meltdown, and this is WITH the white noise machine working. Oh, our sheriff is useless to call on this as he is probably helping them set them off.

G2K was all over the news this evening on WFLA. Jack Cory was on as well, but as usual he made a pretty piss poor appearance as compared with the bitch from MA G2K. She announced that G2K is working very hard with West Virginia Legislators to end greyhound racing there. Suspect WVA will need all the help they can get in the next year.