# Legal Question: Adopted Dog Sick

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-question-adopted-dog-sick/753628>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 1, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-question-adopted-dog-sick/753628 "2016-05-01T21:03:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90ced4/32.png) [@Waltzes\_with\_Cacti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waltzes_with_Cacti)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-question-adopted-dog-sick/753628/82 "2016-05-08T20:21:04Z")

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> [@JcWoman](#):
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> Believe me, I’m on board with those arguments - in both directions! I adopted retired racing greyhounds and flipped so crazy in love that I started volunteering. Most people thank me for rescuing my dogs. However, at a meet and greet once, someone confronted me with “don’t you think that by taking the dogs from the tracks you’re part of the problem by allowing them to keep doing business as usual?” The answer was both yes and also no, for many reasons (that I won’t go into unless you guys are interested and then it should be a separate topic). I am happy to rationally discuss both points of view with anyone because I very much believe in fighting ignorance.

_\<Small hijack, for which I, Waltzes, apologize\>_

**JcWoman** , I for one would **very** much like to hear your experiences and advice re retired greyhounds. My grannie always had a greyhound and/or a whippet (sometime both) when I was a child and, presently being dogless with a large suburban yard, those are two breeds I’ve thought about adopting. Maybe the discussion should be in another thread?

\<_Hijack ended. We now return you to your regularly scheduled topic along with hearty good wishes for the OP’s adorable puppy’s continued improvement.\>_

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