A friend of mine sent me a lovely article from a British Newspaper about a greyhound called Jasmine, who lives at an Animal Rescue Centre and adopts young animals of all varieties when they arrive at the Centre.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Whilst I lived in England, I used to help run a cat rescue shelter, and as a consequence I got involved with a lot of people who ran animal shelters or groups of one sort or another.  One of the groups was the Greyhound Rescue in the county in which I lived. I therefore met a lot of greyhounds and even more happy greyhound owners.  The greyhound is by nature gentle and loving. It is only because the poor dogs are deliberately underfed and trained to chase moving objects that they will chase the hare on the greyhound track. That is not to say that there are no nasty greyhounds, but there are nasty Yorkshire Terriers as well, in fact there are nasty dogs of any race.

This is happening in a country of supposed animal lovers.  And it could have happened to Jasmine, the foster mother of 50 other animals.

It is time that we stopped using animals for the amusement of ourselves, and then discard them when their usefulness has gone. The way we look at animals and care for them says a lot about us. Most greyhounds are gentle dogs, that will forgive humans, even when they have suffered at their hands.

I am glad that the dog called Jasmine has been an ambassador for the greyhound race, and hope that many readers of the newspaper will now maybe visit their local greyhound rescue group and may themselves be blessed with such a loving companion.

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