Greyhounds Make Great Pets

Tune in to Greyhounds Make Great Pets on Friday December 13, 2019 when Lee Livingood, award winning author of Retired Racing Greyhounds for Dummies joins us for an informative hour with essential tips for helping your pet be a great pet and for helping you be the best pet parent. Lee has been a fixture in the greyhound adoption community and a professional dog behavior consultant for more than 20 years and her experience and insight can help both new and seasoned pet owners.

On Friday December 6, 2019, Shawn Fluharty ~ State House (WV) - District 3, Democratic ~ joins the GMGP hosts to discuss politics in West Virginia and the fight to preserve greyhound racing and employment in WV.

On November 15, 2019, Jim Gartland Executive Director and Secretary-Treasurer of The National Greyhound Association joins Greyhounds Make Great Pets for a discussion about the NGA and the current status of greyhound racing in the United States.

In the first half of the November 1st edition of Greyhounds Make Great Pets we welcome Richard Ruelas, reporter for The Arizona Republic for a discussion on Rediscovering: Don Bolles, a murdered journalist, an upcoming podcast from Arizona Republic/azcentral.com. which launches with two episodes on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Don Bolles was an investigative reporter for The Arizona Republic who was killed by a car bomb in 1976 after years of reporting on corruption in the racing industry. Decades after Bolles's murder, cassette tapes of his related phone calls were discovered and the story of Don Bolles's life and his quarrels with the mafia before his death can now be told. In the second half of GMGP, Steve Sarras, a greyhound owner and breeder joins us to discuss greyhound racing and the current situation in West Virginia.

On Friday October 25, 2019 the Greyhounds Make Great Pets hosts welcome Michael Strickland, 3rd generation greyhound breeder from Abilene, Kansas - the home of American greyhound racing. Mike will help us better understand the social up bringing and careful breeding selection of the greyhound. We will also discuss some of concerns, myths, and incorrect facts that are often misused regarding racing greyhounds and the sport.

Join Greyhounds Make Great Pets on Friday October 18, 2019 when resident guest host John Parker is joined by greyhound historian Charles Blanning, (author of The Greyhound and the Hare) and retired National Greyhound Association executive director, Gary Guccione to talk about the best of the best greyhound racers in history. Gary & Charles will each choose and discuss their top 5 all-time favorite legendary racing greyhounds from the United States and the United Kingdom. You won't want to miss this interesting and informative hour about our favorite breed's history.

Dr. Lynda L. Blythe, one of the authors of Care of the Racing Greyhound joins Greyhounds Make Great Pets live on July 12, 2019 to share her vast experience on the care and health of racing greyhounds which can aid current and future adopters to better understand their retired racing greyhounds as they become beloved pets.

Clint Goodrich ~ horse trainer, jockey and author (Two Hearts) ~ is the guest on the October 4, 2019 edition of Greyhounds Make Great Pets for a discussion on more horse sense.

On Friday September 27, join Greyhounds Make Great Pets for a racing discussion that is a bit different ~ horse racing ~ with guests trainer/owner Stacy Campo and Turf Paradise general manager Vincent Francia.

Tune in to Greyhounds Make Great Pets on September 20, 2019 when we are joined by greyhound owner/breeder Bob Crossland of Crossland Farm to discuss life on a greyhound farm and how to become involved in racing greyhound ownership.

The Greyhounds Make Great Pets hosts are joined by guest Dennis McKeon to answer questions from our listeners on this full moon Friday the 13th episode. We also hope to bring you an update on the Irish Greyhounds.

Tune in to Greyhounds Make Great Pets on Friday September 6, 2019 when the legendary Lee Livingood, award winning author of Retired Racing Greyhounds for Dummies joins us for an informative hour, helping us to be better humans for our dogs and also offering helpful dog training tips. Lee has been a fixture in the greyhound adoption community and a professional dog behavior consultant for more than 20 years.

Join us on Friday, August 30, 2019 as greyhound historian Charles Blanning, author of the recently published book, The Greyhound and the Hare about the history of the greyhound breed, returns to Greyhounds Make Great Pets to discuss his choice of the 10 greatest greyhounds in history. Charles will be interviewed by our guest co host John Parker .You wont want to miss this interesting and informative hour about our favorite breeds history.

A discussion about the improvements made in the world of greyhound adoption and racing over the last 25 years.

Steve Bassignani, adoption counselor for PittieLove Rescue joins Greyhounds Make Great Pets on August 16, 2019 to discuss pitbulls and pitbull rescue.

On August 9, 2019 Greyhounds Make Great Pets welcome Jennifer Janiak-Ross of Galgo Podenco Support to discuss galgos...and podencos, too. Jen will explain what a galgo is and their plight as well as setting straight some galgo myths. Jen will also share her experiences of traveling and rescuing galgos in Spain and the work that is done by Galgo Podenco Support GPS. If you are a galgo lover or looking to learn more about them, this is one show you don't want to miss!

Former greyhound trainer Dennis McKeon returns to Greyhounds Make Great Pets on August 2, 2019 with more discussion on greyhound culture, popular greyhound mythology and lots more great information. If you have a question or topic for Dennis please email it to gmgp3@yahoo.com no later than August 1 at 4pm.

Former greyhound trainer Dennis McKeon joins GMGP this week to discuss greyhound culture, popular greyhound mythology, and how these have had an inhibitive effect upon adopters when they try to cope with perfectly understandable greyhound behaviors, as new adoptees.

Dr. Morrie Craig, co~author of Care of the Racing & Retired Greyhound, joins Greyhounds Make Great Pets live on July 19, 2019 to discuss how he catches cheaters in animal sports and the drug testing programs he has created which are aimed at reducing and eliminating cheating in racing sports. His many decades of experience and research has been vital to the greyhound racing industry, Iditarod sled dog races and homing pigeon racing. In addition we will also explore Dr. Craig's participation in an on-going project as a consultant to Phyto-Ruminal Bio-remediation in Kuwait, an effort to clean up the toxins of Desert Storm and Desert Shield.

Dr. Lynda L. Blythe, one of the authors of Care of the Racing Greyhound joins Greyhounds Make Great Pets live on July 12, 2019 to share her vast experience on the care and health of racing greyhounds which can aid current and future adopters to better understand their retired racing greyhounds as they become beloved pets.