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Greetings from Gainesville, Florida! I'm sure you will love it here on Greytalk!

I am so very sorry for the losses of your beautiful babies.

Welcome from Gainesville, Florida, Al! You are so lucky that you get to work with your dog at your side. I'm jealous! We would love to see pictures of Zoe!!! Please post some when you get a chance!

Oh, Chief, you are so beautiful. I am so very sorry. Godspeed, sweetheart.

Welcome from Gainesville, Florida. We adopted our first greyhound 4 months ago after admiring them for many, many years. So glad we finally did! Adopting a GH has been a wonderful experience!!

Greetings from Gainesville, Florida. Glad you came back!

I am so very sorry for your loss.

I am so sorry for the loss of your sweet Mahogany.

Greetings from Gainesville, Florida! You and I have a lot in common...I have 1 greyhound, a whippet, and 2 sons! (We can't have a cat, as my youngest son is allergic). welcome

Greetings from Gainesville, Florida! Blaze is such a cutie!!

I am so sorry for your loss. Bless you for all that you did in showing him what it was like to be really loved and making him feel like a beloved pet, if only for a too brief time. You are a very special person. Godspeed, sweet Monty.

I am so sorry for the loss of your beautiful Otis.

Hi there, Molly! You are a very very pretty girl!

Greetings from Gainesville, Florida! Kebo and Tiel are both gorgeous!!

Your beautiful tribute made me cry. Godspeed, handsome Hobbes.

Please accept my condolences on the loss of your beautiful Cohen. I am so sorry.

Hi Lukasmom, and welcome!! :)

What a beautiful tribute to a beautiful boy. Godspeed, Carrier.

Greetings from Gainesville, Florida!!

I am so very sorry to read about Cody Angelo. He was our star on April 1st when Grey Talk turned into Poodle Talk for the day. Please accept my condolences. Godspeed, sweetheart.

Magnus! What a freak accident!! So sorry to hear it happened. Feel better soon and don't forget to milk this for as many doggie cookies as you can possibly get!

You are smart to consider sun protection, especially for Angler. We have an almost 11 yr old white whippet. He has always been a lover of sun. He has developed some red lesions on his abdomen over the last year. Our vet told us that they are either hemangiomas (non cancerous) or hemangiosarcomas (cancerous). Due to his special needs ( he had a spinal cord injury 4 yrs ago, some heart problems, and would not survive surgery or other extreme measures) we just need to see what happens. He is comfortable and happy for the time being. The Merck Veterinary Manual says the following: note that the profile for at risk dogs are dogs with short, often white coats, "chronic solar injury", whippets, and italian greyhounds. So please take care of Angler out in the sun. *** "Angiosarcomas, arguably the most aggressive of all soft-tissue tumors, are composed of cells that have many functional and morphologic features of normal endothelium. Although these tumors are often divided into hemangiosarcomas (of purported blood vessel origin) and lymphangiosarcomas (of lymphatic vessel origin), such a distinction is arbitrary. The term angioendothelioma is also used. These tumors generally arise spontaneously, but in dogs with short, often white coats, chronic solar injury has induced a change in the superficial vascular plexus, which initially appears as a hemangioma and then progresses to a malignant vascular tumor. The breeds prone to actinically induced angiosarcomas are Whippets, Italian Greyhounds, White Boxers, and Pit Bulls. Pathologists will often diagnose these lesions as cutaneous hemangiosarcomas." On a side note.....our first whippet, Piper, also had hemangiosarcoma (along with the squamous cell carcinoma and nerve sheath tumors). We were lucky that we could put him under and use a laser to try to deal with the multiple small tumors he had from both the hemangio and squamous cell cancers. He was ok as long as the tumors stayed on the outside of his body......unfortunately, the hemangio eventually grew inside and we lost him. My hope is that your whippet has an easier time of it than Piper did. Paula, those are nasty little things, aren't they? Our vet told us that she could biopsy them to determine if they were cancerous or not, but we decided it was a moot point considering Comet's heart is too weak to undergo any kind of procedures. He was very lucky to have survived the ordeal from 4 yrs ago in which he sustained the spinal injury (if we didn't live in a town with a college of vet medicine I don't think he would have survived) so we are basically in hospice mode with him, keeping him happy and comfortable, not really knowing...

Oh, my, what a beautiful beautiful girl!

Oh, I am so sorry to hear this. Hang in there, Cody Angelo, and stay strong! Prayers to all.

You are smart to consider sun protection, especially for Angler. We have an almost 11 yr old white whippet. He has always been a lover of sun. He has developed some red lesions on his abdomen over the last year. Our vet told us that they are either hemangiomas (non cancerous) or hemangiosarcomas (cancerous). Due to his special needs ( he had a spinal cord injury 4 yrs ago, some heart problems, and would not survive surgery or other extreme measures) we just need to see what happens. He is comfortable and happy for the time being. The Merck Veterinary Manual says the following: note that the profile for at risk dogs are dogs with short, often white coats, "chronic solar injury", whippets, and italian greyhounds. So please take care of Angler out in the sun. *** "Angiosarcomas, arguably the most aggressive of all soft-tissue tumors, are composed of cells that have many functional and morphologic features of normal endothelium. Although these tumors are often divided into hemangiosarcomas (of purported blood vessel origin) and lymphangiosarcomas (of lymphatic vessel origin), such a distinction is arbitrary. The term angioendothelioma is also used. These tumors generally arise spontaneously, but in dogs with short, often white coats, chronic solar injury has induced a change in the superficial vascular plexus, which initially appears as a hemangioma and then progresses to a malignant vascular tumor. The breeds prone to actinically induced angiosarcomas are Whippets, Italian Greyhounds, White Boxers, and Pit Bulls. Pathologists will often diagnose these lesions as cutaneous hemangiosarcomas."