This page, along with some of its many links, are some of my favorite dog sites. People with "retired racers" are vociferous in their satisfaction with their pets, and they tell many great stories. Some of the info is depressing-- most greyhounds racers do not find adoptive homes. Look this over-- maybe you know of someone whose home needs a quiet, well- mannered, graceful, GRATEFUL, 45-mph "couch potato". Hey, maybe you do!

Tongue-in-cheek observations of someone "owned by" retired racers.

Interesting historical facts about cats and cat lovers, a section on Cats in the News, really cute photos, links to cat freeware like animated cursors and icons--all sorts of trivia for cat lovers!

This site discusses various activities you can do with your dog, e.g. obedience, tracking, and agility training. But the main emphasis of it is animal-assisted therapy. Click on those topics and read some of the stories, but first make sure you have Kleenex handy! The benefits of pet contact don't just relate to people in nursing homes and hospitals, of course, they apply to everyone...if you have a calm friendly dog or cat, you might want to join a therapy-pet program. Lots of info and examples from different regions available from this site.

If I won the big lottery, I'd buy a huge block of land. Most would be set aside for native wild animals to live their wild woolly lives unmolested by humans, but some would be managed as a farm where various rare types of livestock and pets were bred. I'm not sure what I'd choose--I don't even buy lottery tickets!--but some sort of draft horse would be a part of the scheme. This site, of course, talks about rare breeds of horses, giving figures and links to further information about most breeds mentioned.

This is a big, ambitious site with neat searching design. Many livestock breeds are covered comprehensively (depending to some extent on what the breed organizations provide), generally with illustrations, history, present status and links to additional sites for the breed. A great browsing site for large-animal lovers. They claim that the site is a long- term project at Oklahoma State and will be added to continuously.

Thanks for joining me on this tour....happy trails!