As some of you know my wife and I are those 'crazy dog people'... actually more specifically we're 'crazy Greyhound people'. At last count we have 5 greyhounds.
So over the weekend we were in Myrtle Beach at a greyhound event with a couple hundred other crazy greyhound people. Anyway, Saturday we were walking through a vendor section I saw a book that caught me eye. The title was 'Born To Run', a book that covers the life of a racing greyhound from puppy to couch potato. I read the preface and bought it. Last night when we arrive home and we're unpacking, my wife picked up the book, flipped it open and said, 'huh, that looks like Drew'. Drew is the first hound we adopted and will be 9 in a month or so. Then she started screaming! OMG it WAS Drew, know on the racetrack as L's Main Event. There in print was a picture of our mutt stretched out like superman as he crossed the finish line winning his first Grade A race. The author of the book just happened to be there at the track that day.
What are the odds of that? Unless you happen to own a dog that had an exceptional racing career, finding a picture of them on the racetrack is a million to one event... much less in a book.
The only problem now is that my wife wants a dozen copies of the book #-o She contacted the author last night and he said he would happily provide us copies of the images he took. He said he often wondered if anyone would see their dog in his book and so far we're the first to contact him about it.
So over the weekend we were in Myrtle Beach at a greyhound event with a couple hundred other crazy greyhound people. Anyway, Saturday we were walking through a vendor section I saw a book that caught me eye. The title was 'Born To Run', a book that covers the life of a racing greyhound from puppy to couch potato. I read the preface and bought it. Last night when we arrive home and we're unpacking, my wife picked up the book, flipped it open and said, 'huh, that looks like Drew'. Drew is the first hound we adopted and will be 9 in a month or so. Then she started screaming! OMG it WAS Drew, know on the racetrack as L's Main Event. There in print was a picture of our mutt stretched out like superman as he crossed the finish line winning his first Grade A race. The author of the book just happened to be there at the track that day.
What are the odds of that? Unless you happen to own a dog that had an exceptional racing career, finding a picture of them on the racetrack is a million to one event... much less in a book.
The only problem now is that my wife wants a dozen copies of the book #-o She contacted the author last night and he said he would happily provide us copies of the images he took. He said he often wondered if anyone would see their dog in his book and so far we're the first to contact him about it.