Meet & Greet OGGA Adoptable Greyhounds
Date: Saturday, September 28, 2019
Time: 12 noon to 2:00 p.m.
Location:
Pet Supplies Plus Store
2424 W. State St.
Alliance, OH 44601
OGGA will have Meet & Greets at this location the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month.
October 12th and 26th
November 9th and 23rd
December 14th and 28th
We will take part in the National Adoption Event held at PetSmart. OGGA will have greyhound adoption information available on:
Saturday, September 14th and Sunday, September 15th
Times both days will be 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Next PetSmart National Adoption Event:
Nov 8-10
Join OGGA at the Fantastic Beasts event Saturday, Sugust 31st from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
For more information go to their Facebook event listing: https://www.facebook.com/events/339263350013846/?active_tab=discussion
Join OGGA and many other pet adoption organizations for this annual summer event:
For more information go to their Facebook event page:
The Handing Down
by Dennis McKeon
It would be useful if more adoption groups and their representatives, stressed the importance of understanding the nurturing of greyhounds, done by other greyhounds—the handing down.
This is the essence of the canine culture by which all performance greyhounds have been deeply informed and affected. It is highly unlikely that your adopted pet, prior to your having adopted him/her, was ever without the company of other greyhounds for even a few seconds.
Photo courtesy of Crossland Farm: -Dyna Nalin-and-Luxurious Trent litter-photo-by-Nicole-Crossland-4-2015
The impacts of this pack-oriented and colonial culture upon the greyhound, are as indelible to them, as are the circumstances of our own upbringing, growth and development, within a culture and a segment of society.
So the experience of being adopted, and suddenly finding themselves without everyone and everything they have ever known— the “lone wolf”, for the first time in their lives— is a form of culture shock, if not an outright trauma for some of them. Acting independently, outside the dynamic of the pack or colony, is a concept unfamiliar to them.
Much has been said and done, as it regards the adopters’ perception of “separation anxiety” and coping with it, should a newly adopted greyhound exhibit signs of stress when they are left alone. It is a wonder that we often fail to perceive the first instance of separation anxiety—that being, when the newly adopted greyhound is suddenly separated, or perhaps in his mind, expelled, from the colony to which he belonged— only to be confronted with a virtual universe of novelty and uncertainty, much of which is beyond his understanding.
We will never fully appreciate or understand the greyhounds we adopt, unless we can begin to wrap minds around the unique experience they all share, as purpose-bred canines– the effects of a nurturing canine culture, and the handing down of collective consciousness, which is predicated upon their co-existence within the pack or colony unit, and the supports, securities and bonding it affords them.
copyright, 2019
