Greyhound adoption

Greyhounds have had a reputation for being gentle, people-centered dogs, and "par-excellence for persons wishing for a companion for themselves or their children".

[1] As of 2024, most greyhound adoption programs are based in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, as each of those countries still has relatively large greyhound racing industries.

[3] In the United States, greyhound adoption did not begin on a wide scale until 1981, when Seabrook Greyhound Park in New Hampshire distributed a newspaper to track patrons promoting greyhounds as pets.

[6] One of the last major greyhound adoption agencies in the United States closed permanently in 2022,[7] given that there are now only two greyhound tracks left in the United States, both in West Virginia.

Additional groups in the US that facilitate greyhound adoptions now exclusively get their dogs from Ireland or Australia.