Greyhound Site

After reading Camie's Kitties comment about Camie not knowing her date of birth, I started thinking about the website that gives greyhound owners that information, but only if you have the greyhound's tattoos. Camie's tattoo cannot be completely read, so her information cannot be found.

Did you know that greyhounds are tattooed in their ears when they are puppies? Ouch! The tattoos are checked before each race to be sure that the dog racing is the one that is said to be racing.

A greyhound is given a tattoo in each ear. The LEFT ear contains a 5 digit number that is assigned to the litter at birth. All pups in a particular litter will have the same number.

The RIGHT ear contains either a 2 or 3 digit number followed by a letter. The numbers represent the month and year the hound was born in. The first 1 or 2 numbers identify the month and the last number identifies the year. The letter signifies the order in which they were tattooed.

There is a website that I absolutely love because it lists my dogs'lineages. I am big into my own family history, so imagine my delight when I found out that I could research my dogs' family history. LOL We are asked all the time if Jack and Scout are related. Yes, they are. They are actually cousins. The site is Greyhound Data . Here is Jack's actual page. We renamed Jack, but trust me this is my boy. I have uploaded photos of him to the page. This page gives statics on Jack's races. It shows his family history along with some photos of his family. His father was an excellent racer and is in the hall of fame. His grandfather and great grandfathers were also great racers. I've been told that some of the older dogs do not have all of their races listed, so even though they were great racers it does not always show up for them on this page. Jack chose not to follow in the family business, but that's fine with us. He retired very early and that is why he has been in a home for 2.5 years already.

Even if you are not a greyhound or a dog owner, you might find Greyhound Data interesting.

Oh, no! I just noticed something on Jack's page. I celebrated his birthday on the wrong date this year. He was actually born on January 3rd, not the 4th. :-O I can't believe I did that.

It's Jack's Birthday!

Today is my 5th Birthday!!!!



I'm going to watch TV.



Play with my toys.



Take a couple of naps.



Basically, it's like any other day.



Mama made me a special breakfast and promised me something special for dinner. Daddy has to go away on a work trip starting tomorrow, so we are having "family day" today. We will be together all day today. I love family days!

Happy New Year!

I was trying to post yesterday afternoon a picture of Jack celebrating New Year's Eve when my Internet card broke. A new one will arrive tomorrow. I am at a Panera's Bread using their wi-fi. Yep, I'm doing it. I think they are ready to kick me out though as the staff seems to be cleaning all around me. It is starting to get quite crowded, so I need to leave. I drove all over trying to find an open place. I didn't think about everything being closed today. I wanted to drop my Entrecards, but I don't think that's going to happen today.

Happy New Year everyone!!!!

Thank you!

We would like to thank all of our followers of this blog. It's always exciting to see that someone else has signed up to follow our antics. We would also like to thank everyone for leaving comments. We really enjoy reading what you have to say.

We are still learning all about the blogging world, but we love it. We spent a while today trying to figure out how to list all of our blogs in our profile, but we are lost. Can you list non-blogger blogs? I'm sure I have seen other people do it. We would also like to show a widget with the link to our other blogs, but again, we haven't figured that out. We can do a widget and we can do a link, but we can't figure out how to combine them. :::sigh:::

On a side note, do you know how much gas is selling for at a station in St. Louis? $1.11. Can you believe that? It's true.

The Two Greyhound Town Crew,
Patty, Jack & Scout

Enjoying the Simple Things in Life

My dogs are teaching me to enjoy the simple things in life.

My Jack loves the sun. Doesn't he look peaceful enjoying the warmth of the sun this morning?



I think we should all follow Jack's example and do something that we really enjoy for a few moments today.