Greyhounds are great dogs (From Thurrock Gazette)

Greyhounds are great dogs

12:21pm Thursday 31st January 2008

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I have been reading your article on the Thurrock Gazette website about a Spaniel belonging to Lisa Sargent being "savaged" by two greyhounds.

This article is so one sided it's untrue and I'm sure you can see from all the comments that have been added to the article that I am not the only one of this opinion.

Greyhounds are the most gentle and placid dogs and the fact that these two were muzzled goes to show that they have a responsible owner.

Was Buster on a lead? I think not! From my experience small dogs will more likely than not jump up round a greyhounds face and round their legs, normally watched by incompetent owners who think their dogs are "just being friendly".

Well, you think how friendly that would feel to you if you had thousands of years of breeding and a lifetime of training to tell you that small and furry means prey.

Your article was very detrimental to Greyhounds as a breed and has probably done untold damage to their reputation for being a wonderful pet.

If you had an ounce of conscience in you, you would go along to one of Janet's greyhound walks, with Alex Ellis who wrote the article, to educate yourself about Greyhounds and then perhaps you could write a feature about the plus sides of owning a retired greyhound.

This would go someway to repair the damage you have done to the efforts of everybody who works very hard to rehome the thousands of greyhounds needing a home every year.

Diane King

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