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• Contrary to people’s initial ideas about greyhounds they make fantastic pets! Greyhounds are:
• Very affectionate and love their cuddles and attention
• Short coated and they generally don’t shed much and don’t produce much by way of ‘doggy odour’
• Low maintenance:
  • they require very little exercise – they are not long distance athletes and so only need a 15-20 minute walk 5 times a week
  • Only need bathing 2-3 times a year (and only then if they really need it)
  • Sleep for about 20 hours a day so are great for families and busy working couples.
  • Greyhounds are very clean, often seen grooming themselves like a cat
  • Greyhounds are very quiet and rarely bark

Aims and Objectives

Greyhounds as Pets is a not for profit initiative coordinated by Greyhound Racing NSW. It aims to provide families with a pet that is ideally suited to their needs while giving those greyhounds not suited to racing, or ready to complete their life as an athlete, a new home..

Finding a dog is easy. Finding the right dog for your family, environment and lifestyle is a challenge that Greyhounds as Pets takes very seriously. We want you and your new friend to live 'happily ever after'. For this reason, we ask foster carers and adopters to fill in a detailed questionnaire to enable us to match you to the most suitable greyhound.

All our staff have extensive experience in working with Greyhounds both behaviourally and medically, as well as having a passion for the breed and for further educating the public on what wonderful animals they are. We place great importance on identifying lovely greyhounds with great temperaments and placing them into the right homes. You can therefore trust that your future friend (adopters), or retired racer (owners/trainers) are in loving and capable hands.

Staff are suitably qualified in the areas of Veterinary Science and Animal Science, with extensive Greyhound specific knowledge.

The objective is to improve animal welfare in the greyhound racing industry by providing dogs with a ‘career change’ if they are not suited to, or are ready to retire from, the racing industry.

GRNSW Greyhounds As Pets is very proud to be the first Approved Program under the Greenhounds initiative in NSW. To learn more about Greenhounds (the body administering NSW muzzling exemptions for pet Greyhounds), please see www.greenhounds.com.au or phone (02) 8767 0519.

Check out this great article which highlights what wonderful pets Greyhounds are, as well as how they can unite people and bring about wonderful friendships!
Click Here 

If you are interested in becoming a foster carer or adopter, we would recommend that you download one of forms below.

Owners and Trainers

• What You Can Do To Help Your Greyhound Succeed In GAP (PDF - 65KB)
• Registration of Interest (PDF - 44KB) 
• Greyhound details (PDF - 54KB)
• Notification of Disposal of a Greyhound (PDF - 537KB)
• Information Sheet for Owners and Trainers (PDF - 6.8Mb) (Warning large download)

Foster Carers and Adopters

• Information to Potential Foster Carers/Adopters (PDF - 52KB)
• Application Form (PDF - 47KB)

If you have any questions regarding fostering or adopting (or you’d like to become a volunteer at one of our information days) please contact us on freecall 1800 696 377 or email us at gap@grnsw.com.au.