Animal Acts: Week Three - Greyhound Adoption Center

Learning How to Put Muzzles On

Chase

Alex Meeting Radar

Yesterday Alex and I went to the Greyhound Adoption Center for our volunteer orientation. While there we toured the facility and were able to meet most of the dogs they have there. In total they have about 50 rescued Greyhounds or Greyhound mixes. Less than a week ago they received 10 dogs from Mexico that were used as racing dogs. Most of the dogs there are in kennels, mainly for recovery from fractions from racing or they're just resting. Alex and I got to go in one of the pens with the dogs when they were in 'turn out'. That's a time period where the dogs can play and socialize for 40 minutes, three times a day. We also were able to learn how to get dogs out from the kennels correctly, along with putting muzzles on them. The reason behind the muzzles is not because they're mean dogs, it's to protect them. Greyhounds have very fragile skin and by having the muzzle on it helps protect them mainly when they're playing with one another. We were taught how to wash some of the dogs there. After we learned how, we were able to wash around seven dogs before we had to leave. All of the dogs they had there were really sweet and great dogs. I could definitely see that they are great pets. Next week we're going back on both Tuesday and Thursday. Also my mom said that we could continue volunteering there after the project too. Going there really showed me how much help volunteering does and the difference it makes because I could see how much work everything takes. Something that really struck me was how sweet the dogs were that only came 5 days ago from being race dogs. It showed me how much these people worked and took care of the dogs and how much of a difference it made. Overall I really enjoyed going to the Greyhound Adoption Center.