I tweet about them quite a bit. We have two dogs – a Fluffy Pembroke Welsh Corgi named Keegan and a Rescued Retired Racing Greyhound named Grace. I’m NOT changing their names to protect them.

Keegan is our 7 year old Corgi. We had another Corgi before Keegan who we lost to cancer in 2003. We love this particular breed of dog. He is a great watchdog, always barks at the door, even if it’s me coming in!

From the moment Keegan walked in the door Liz has acclimatized him to having kids poking, prodding and putting their hands in his mouth and food. She did this so he wouldn’t bite any of the kids my spouse does day care for. It has worked tremendously! You can do anything to this dog and he will take it without thinking about retaliating or biting you. Liz did a great job of training him. I on the other hand spoil the wee bugger and am probably responsible for his being overweight.

Grace is our 7 year old Rescued Retired Racing Greyhound.  Her original name was VS Megan. She is also our second Greyhound; we lost our first one to cancer in 2006 just before I started working at Creative Post.

We adopted Grace in April of 2006 through GRA Canada in Tillsonburg, the same place where we got our first Grey, Georgia. Yes, we did notice our Greyhound’s names have both started with a “G” – total coincidence, as is the fact Keegan and Grace have practically the same colouring.

Grace was a shy girl for a few years, then she blossomed into quite the character. When she came out of her shell she emerged a bit of a goofy Grey.  She loves to be chased around the house. Yes we chase our Greyhound around our average sized Beach duplex! I have numerous videos  of her posted to YouTube.  In future posts I’ll re-post them here.

For anyone who is looking for a wonderful family pet I strongly recommend adopting a Rescued Retired Racing Greyhound.