News and Events

> Dairyland Racetrack is now closed. With the help of a generous community, the Greyhound Alliance has been able to provide rescue, shelter, and food, for displaced greyhounds. On balance, we placed nearly 300 greyhounds with adoption groups across the greater midwest. We are honored to have played a role, and would like to thank everyone who has supported this significant effort.

The Greyhound Alliance focuses on Education
Seminar on greyhound health
scheduled for August

Education has been one of the founding tenets of The Greyhound Alliance, providing training and understanding to adoptors, owners, and caregivers. We are proud to announce that we are sponsoring a "Seminar on Greyhound Health" in August, featuring C.Guillermo Couto, DVM, from the Ohio State University. Dr. Couto is Professor in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Chief of the Oncology/Hematology Service.

As Director of The Greyhound Health and Wellness Program, at Ohio State, Dr Couto is well known in the greyhound community, freely offering advice and support services to greyhound owners and caregivers.

To seminars are planned, one for lay people, i.e. greyhound owners, and the other for area vets to familiarize them with greyhound health and care as well as the services available through the Ohio State programs.

Stay in touch for more information.

The Alliance helping to find Foxy Dream a home
Tripod Brood Mama ready to head north

"Foxy Mama" has given her all and is ready for a home. She retired from racing after the lower part of her right rear leg was amputated due to injury. Being an excellent racer, she became a brood mama. Now under the auspices of the Greyhound Alliance, Foxy Mama has taken a nice bus ride north from Pensacola Fla.and is now in foster care waiting to find a loving family and her forever home. Stay tuned for more info. (click here or on the photo for a larger image.)

The Operation Dairyland
Mission Evolves
Bring the Dairyland Dogs Home

With all of the DGP pets now placed, our mission must change.  A large number of DGP lower grade dogs (dogs that had been initially designated as pets, and then pulled from the pet lists) were sent to run at low grade tracks, specifically in Tucson and the Florida Panhandle.  These tracks are, for the most part, in lightly populated areas, unable to  support adoption, and the numbers of dogs grading off, with no place to go, are simply staggering.

Because many of the lower-grade Dairyland “pets” were sent to these tracks, we are committing ourselves to providing them a safety net  All of those dogs displaced by the DGP racers deserve to find their way to the groups that can help them, and we commit to bringing the DGP racers back north, as they grade off.   Of course this will be an on-going effort. 

The Greyhound Alliance is an Illinois and 501c3 not for profit organization.

Donations are appreciated and can be made to
The Greyhound Alliance P.O. Box 5803
River Forest, Il 60305-5803.