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Article: DOGS AND THEIR FANS HAVE THEIR DAY GREYHOUND GROUP CELEBRATES SUCCESSES
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 22, 2003
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Cara Krinsky did not know much about greyhounds when she got her
first one from Greyhound Friends Inc. the day before Thanksgiving in
1985.
The organization, which at the time boarded greyhounds at
Brookline Animal Hospital, was offering a pure-white dog that day,
but it looked gray from rolling in newsprint in the kennel.
The dog, named Ghost, "wouldn't let me leave him," Krinsky
recalled during an open house Sunday celebrating Greyhound Friends'
20th anniversary and the expected August completion of a new adoption
kennel at the agency's home on Saddle Hill Road in Hopkinton. When
Krinsky got Ghost in the car, she said, "he promptly threw up all
over me."
But Ghost's easygoing personality ...