Unwanted greyhound keeps grinning after adoption
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00:00 I lost three Dobermans in three and a half years.
00:03 I was so heartbroken that I never thought
00:05 I would allow another dog into my life.
00:07 But when I adopted Sabrina,
00:08 I love you, both of us, so broken.
00:11 And she saved me.
00:15 My name is Lee and this is Sabrina's story for GOP.
00:17 She had a dropped muscle.
00:21 So a muscle that was supposed to be kind of up
00:25 at the top of her legs is down at the bottom of her leg.
00:28 It doesn't give her any discomfort.
00:30 It just ended her racing career
00:31 because they say that the dropped muscle
00:33 takes two or three seconds off their time.
00:36 She ended up in a greyhound clearing house,
00:39 it's called, in Birmingham, Alabama,
00:41 for unwanted greyhounds.
00:44 She went there in October of 2018,
00:46 sat there until April of 2019,
00:49 and then they shipped her to Ohio.
00:51 And then from Ohio, she went to Seattle, Washington.
00:54 We were on a holiday and somebody sent me her photograph
00:57 at an adoption agency in Seattle.
00:59 We just kept looking at her photograph.
01:01 We came home early from our holiday,
01:03 drove 11 hours to meet her.
01:05 She saw us and she leapt in our laps.
01:07 Hi, beans.
01:08 She was so funny.
01:09 And the adoption agency said,
01:10 "Oh, you don't want her, she's too active."
01:12 And I said, "Active is fine.
01:14 "This is the dog we would like."
01:16 She's very bubbly, funny, goofy.
01:18 She's super friendly, loves all the neighbors,
01:20 a great personality.
01:21 When she walks, she prances because she's just happy.
01:26 She's also careful and she's polite.
01:28 It's almost like a human kind of trait
01:30 because she's never intrusive.
01:32 Some greyhounds, they go for four hour hikes.
01:35 She's not like that.
01:36 Now she's half an hour to 45 minutes back and she's in bed,
01:39 like arms in the air, legs in the air.
01:42 We have a very interesting relationship.
01:43 She's very, very independent and so am I.
01:46 So we are connected by emotion.
01:49 If I'm sad or happy or upset,
01:53 she will come to me and lay at my feet.
01:56 - I love you.
01:57 - She understands emotion.
01:59 She's like a therapy dog, but she's not a therapy dog.
02:01 When I come home from work, she's so excited to see me.
02:04 She wants to say, "Hi, I love you."
02:06 She'll kiss me, she'll do wiggling,
02:08 and then she'll just go to her bed.
02:09 It's just hard to describe her.
02:11 She's just really sweet and polite and kind.
02:14 - That feel good.
02:15 - When I first brought her home and she was so skinny,
02:17 people would drive by, roll down their windows and say,
02:20 "Why don't you feed your dog?"
02:21 And yet she would have been friendly to that person
02:23 if they had wanted to meet her.
02:24 - That feel good?
02:25 - She's always up for anything.
02:27 (dog panting)
02:30 I'm so grateful that she came into my life.
02:32 I've had a lot of losses in my life, including the dogs,
02:34 and we just walked everywhere.
02:36 She walked so beautifully and she was so lovely
02:39 and she was like a quiet friend.
02:40 So I would just thank her for saving me because she did.
02:43 - I love you.
02:49 (gentle music)
02:52 (dog panting)
02:55 (gentle music)
02:57 (gentle music)