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Local Herald West End’s Community Paper
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Vo l u m e 3 , I s s u e 2 ,
Jan 27, 2012
Local woman finds homes for retired racing Greyhounds Story and photos: Bram D. Eisenthal
Sleek and fast as a cougar, it came at me before I knew it… and then sniffed my crotch. My, my, I thought, was it a hygiene problem that caused Pepper to act that way? “Not at all,” replied Donna Deskin, president of The League of Extraordinary Greyhounds, a West Endbased organization that wants to educate people on Greyhound dogs and in turn find loving homes for them in their retirement years. “Dogs have an olfactory sense ranging from one hundred thousand to one million times more sensitive than a human's. Sniffing is how they ‘meet’ and get to know who they are meeting. Nothing to do with hygiene.” Phew, I thought.
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Donna Deskin with Nestle - Greyhound love
What lay ahead was one of my more fascinating experiences with dogs, which I love dearly. I do not have one now, but I was blessed with two in earlier years, first as a child and then in my late teens. And although I have certainly seen them around, I knew virtually nothing about Greyhounds, other than their vaunted rep for blurring speed. All that was about to change as we headed toward Vermont, early last Saturday, while the sun still struggled to reach the horizon.
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