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Are Greyhounds grey? No. Not usually.

We adopted two greyhounds. Pope and Bagen. They’re amazingly cool dogs. And I do mean “cool” in the 1980’s sense of the word – just laid back, calm, collected. They remind me of horses they are so cool.

But they aren’t grey. Nope. Pope is black, going grey in the muzzle. Bagen is white with red brindle markings around his ears. Very pretty dogs.

These two fellows were racers and they ran a lot of races and didn’t win many. OK.

So they’re retired now at four years old, and they are perfectly pleased to lie on their sides, practicing being very still, and waiting to be petted. They walk so easily it’s like they aren’t being led and they aren’t being restrained by their leashes – no, they are simply holding up their ends of the leashes. Just being helpful.

Lovely animals.