Adoption Guide

American Greyhound does not assign families a particular hound during the adoption process. We feel that the entire process wor…

Common assumption is that spending a lot of time with your new hound and "bonding" is the best thing to do. Nothing could be fur…

Being social animals, greyhounds tend to get along well with other animals.

In general, greyhounds make wonderful family pets and do very well with children. In fact, if I were going to have any dog arou…

Your new hound came from the track "crate trained", meaning they won't mess in their crate. In their foster home, he was taught…

Feed your greyhound a high quality food that contains very little corn. Corn is a filler and is not a grain that dogs digest re…

Heart worms are a very prevalent parasite in the Midwest, carried by mosquitoes. When a mosquito carrying the microscopic larva…

Gastric torsion (often referred to as bloat) is a common hazard in all dogs with deep chests.

We have all seen people with dogs which can be allowed to run loose and never run away. Greyhounds are NOT one of those dogs.

Please consider using a crate with your new hound. Your new friend, in his previous life, lived almost exclusively in a crate a…

Your new hound has very little oil in his skin, and because of this, he will seldom need baths, unless he becomes soiled.

Though a greyhound’s body temperature is much warmer than that of most other dogs, they don’t tolerate cold weather as well as m…

At the race track, your hound never encountered stairs or hard shiny floors. Some hounds will adapt to these without any troubl…