Adopting a Former Racing Greyhound Essential information for potential pet parents. Thousands of racing greyhounds are bred annually to compete in the nearly 30 dog racetracks across the United States, in an effort to produce "winning dogs," according to the Humane Society of the United States. The routine practice results in many more greyhounds than are needed on the racetracks. Not all will get adopted. April marked the nationwide initiative Adopt a Greyhound Month, to honor both the urgent need to adopt greyhounds and to highlight the reasons why they can make great pets. The Philadelphia-based National Greyhound Adoption Program is one of the many national non-profit organizations that facilitate adoptions of greyhounds. Its director David Wolf prefers to refer to the dogs as former racing greyhounds, and not retired, given that most greyhounds stop racing between the ages of 2 and 5, not placing them exactly in their older years. Read more :http://www.zootoo.com/petnews/adopting-a-former-racing-greyhound-1972