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rip cayenne padre

Matt Brotherson — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:28:46 +0000

Run free Cayenne Padre.

fostering again

Matt Brotherson — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:08:29 +0000

I put my foot down six months ago and said no more fostering. I even bought Lindsay the little Ziggy guy. Our hearts are just too big. The race season came to a close and GALT has over 100 dogs to place. They are in dire need of foster homes for these dogs as over 40 of them are being boarded at various kennels at a cost of $8 per day per dog. Not only is it a huge cost to GALT but the dogs have a better time at a person’s home. We picked up our foster dog yesterday and she is doing her best to fit in. Yeah, we’re animal people.

happy birthday pistol

Matt Brotherson — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:28:46 +0000

Our girl greyhound Pistol turns five today. She got a happy birthday buffalo burger from my grill.

peedle deedle

ziggy the italian greyhound

Matt Brotherson — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:41:11 +0000

In November we adopted an Italian Greyhound through IGCA Rescue of Texas. We decided that fostering retired racers became rather challenging when school is in session as the juggling of activities presented difficulty. Lindsay always wanted a small cuddly dog and I agreed that she could get an iggy (Italian Greyhound) and the fostering would subside.

He’s still a puppy full of energy and is around eight months old. He gets along great with our big greyhounds but the cats are another issue. His playfulness is not amusing to the cats. He attempts to run with the big dogs in the back yard but ends up either getting in the way or falling way behind due to his size. The Italian Greys can run 25 MPH but that doesn’t mean much when you’re racing 48+ MPH giants!

padre’s racing pictures

Matt Brotherson — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:23:08 +0000

Many thanks to Jon Fishback, an excellent photographer and board of trustees member for Greyhound Pets of America – Northwest, who took pictures of Cayenne Padre racing in Multnomah, Oregon for providing these pictures to us. We have a hard time imagining the ‘other’ life Padre led before retirement. He was an awesome racer and now an even more awesome lifetime friend.

I found the races that the pictures are of:

padre goes swimming

Matt Brotherson — Sat, 31 May 2008 22:28:37 +0000

A few weeks ago we attended GALT’s birthday party at Lewisville Lake. Many people were there and over 200 greyhounds. A peninsula of land was fenced off for the dogs to run and go in the lake. Padre decided to cool off a bit.

‘guard’en dog

Matt Brotherson — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:42:36 +0000

look what the girls got me into

Matt Brotherson — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:31:03 +0000

Pistol was apparently rather lonely and needed a friend. Somehow the girls convinced me that another greyhound was in order. Padre was delivered today. Here is his pedigree and his racing history is here.

Stay tuned for pictures of both greyhounds together.

pistol

Matt Brotherson — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:00:24 +0000

The girls adopted a veteran racer Greyhound by the name of Dynamite Pistol. She’s a retired racing dog from Greyhound Adoption League of Texas and is a great dog that gets along with our cats. We’ve got her full pedigree here and her racing history here.