Adopt-a-Greyhound month

Thank you for your article and photo "April is Adopt-a-Greyhound Month" on April 16.

National Adopt-a-Greyhound month provides an excellent opportunity for ex-racers in need of loving homes. Kudos to all at Gordonville Attendance Center and Cape Girardeau GPA for raising awareness in children regarding kindness to animals. Greyhounds are wonderful ambassadors for themselves as can be seen in the lovely photo.

Greyhound racing is cruel and inhumane. Racing greyhounds endure terrible confinement in small stacked cages. While racing, they suffer and die from injuries such as broken limbs, paralysis and cardiac arrest. Short-term investments, the greyhounds are valued only as long as they generate a profit. Their post-racing fate falls to dedicated volunteer groups such as Cape Girardeau Greyhound Pets of America and The Greyhound Project to place for adoption as many greyhounds as they can.

I have adopted beloved ex-racing greyhounds since 1997, and I am a board member of GREY2K USA, a national not-for-profit organization that works to end the cruelty of dog racing. For more information, please visit www.grey2kusa.org.

CARYN WOOD, Board of Directors,

GREY2K USA, Gilbert, Ariz.