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| Adopting the Racing Greyhound | 
 enlarge | Author: Cynthia A. Branigan
Publisher: Howell Book House
Category: Book
List Price: $15.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 103952
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 0764540866
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.7534
UPC: 785555869585
EAN: 9780764540868
ASIN: 0764540866
Publication Date: August 1, 2003
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| Customer Reviews:
Best Book on Greyhounds June 19, 2005
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Several years ago my partner and I were looking for a large sized dog to keep in an apartment. After quite a bit of research we learned about racing greyhounds. We ended up acquiring two of them. Then we got a house and had three. The original two got old and passed away and we now own our fourth and fifth. Greyhounds can be kind of addicting.
I've read pretty much every book ever written on Greyhounds and one time or another, and have searched the web extensively. When greyhound adoption first became popular Branigan's book was the only published reliable source. Since then other good books have been written, but I still think anyone interested in greyhounds should start here.
The book provides good advice on dealing with the greyhound when you first get it home and get it accustomed to living in a house. However, I'm not a big fan of crating my dogs. In our home we have actually made the dogs their own area where we sometimes confine them, although it is more of an in-house kennel complete with couch dog beds and doggy door (and windows for squirrel watching). They do actually like having some degree of confinement, and Branigan is correct in suggesting that the dog needs time to adjust and a degree of confinement. After all, they lived in a crate until they came to the house.
She also provides, as others have noted, quite a bit of good medical information. Not only is the thyroid information important, but I have spoken with every vet about the greyhound's sensitivity to anesthesia.
Every greyhound owner, or anyone thinking about owning a greyhound, should read this book.
The Best Greyhound Book Ever September 30, 2004
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I have read 15 different books on greyhound adoption and this is by far the best book of them all. If you only buy one book on greyhounds, make it this one. It is an easy to understand and FUN read full of priceless information. I love it.
A perfect guide to the 45 mph couch potato September 17, 2004
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Anyone who's ever seen, fallen in love with and now owns or is thinking of owning a greyhound will thoroughly enjoy this book. With practical tips on training, behaviour/disposition of the breed, sporting, and critically adjustment to home life, Branigan has written an extremely illustrious and informative, well-researched and thought out book describing the life and ownership of a retired racer.
I was touched most by the quirky 'urban legend' Branigan writes about the gratefulness shown by these magnificent dogs. Told by greyhounds at the track to their puppies and their puppies' puppies there was a secret place called "home" where everything was warm and soft and comfortable...
I loved this book and am overjoyed to be bringing my greyhound to his final home soon in December, a home filled with light and space and love. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who owns or is considering owning one of these special animals. There truly is no breed more remarkable than the greyhound!
Adopting the racing Greyhound January 21, 2004
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
The book Adopting the racing Greyhound was recommended to me and so I went to Amazon to buy it. Based on customer reviews, it looked like the book was out of print. Then I saw the word edition and clicked on that. Am I glad I did, as there is a new third edition of the book out that just came out this past summer. It is great. It answered all of my questions about my dog and then some. So, don't give up! The new book is available, but Amazon just has it listed in a hard to find way.
THIS BOOK SAVED MY GREYHOUND'S LIFE January 20, 2004
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I had adopted a very shy Greyhound and the adoption group I got him from recommended putting him on thyroid medication. They told me it wasn't necessary to even test him for an underactive thyroid--his shyness alone was proof of the disorder. Well, they gave me the thyroid supplements and I assumed they knew best. What a mistake! Within a week he was pacing and panting. Within two weeks he was agitated and becoming very aggressive.
Thank God I happened across the book Adopting The Racing Greyhound. In it I read all about the myth that most Greyhounds have an underactive thyroid gland. I took my Greyhound to the vet right away and he, too, assured me that what the group recommended was very dangerous and could have lead to my dog having a heart attack. We did a proper thyroid test (it came back normal), and we weaned my dog off the supplements. I took him for some basic obedience training to get him socialized, and I am giving him more time, and more love, to get him over his shyness. Guess what? It is working!
Thanks to Ms. Branigan's book, my Greyhound and I are really enjoying each other's company.
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