This is our Cairo, our beautiful greyhound, who we adopted and rescued from a racetrack in Colorado a little over 2 years ago. She is an absolute angel, and still a puppy in many ways, although she is nearly 7 years old. Yesterday, she began to suffer from horrible bouts of paralysis, yelping and crying out in pain whenever she would try to move. We took her to the ignorant veterinarian in Price, and he charged us $65 for watching her walk down the sidewalk and shoving a pill for parasites down her throat.
Today, she was much worse. We took her to a veterinarian in Salt Lake that we knew understood greyhounds. Greys have very special anatomy, with larger hearts and lungs, and even different blood composition. Most vets don't know a thing about greys. The doc we took her to today knew his stuff. He took blood to check for tick-borne diseases, sedated her to get comprehensive x-rays, and $750 later, we found out that our sweet baby girl has horrible degenerative disc disease down her entire spine, and horrible degenerative lung disease. All of this comes from abuse at the track during her racing days.
Please watch the following video. Never go to a dog racing track, or bet on a race. If you do, you are torturing and killing innocent animals like my sweet and innocent Cairo.
