A trickster from the very beginning

Trixie retired from her racing career and worked part-time as a blood donor. Greyhounds make perfect blood donors for a couple of reasons, many of them are universal donors and they have a very red blood cell count and carry more oxygen.

However, seniors are not an option for donating... donating is for the youngsters.


Trixie

In 1996 when we adopted Trixie she was a four-year-old red brindle with a white muzzle. That white muzzle fooled people into saying things like, “She must be a lot older than your other greyhound.” Actually our other greyhound, a fawn male named Mowgli, was three years older than Trixie.


Over the years while we continued to explain that Trixie had always had a white muzzle, she became an old greyhound, a very old greyhound. She lived for fifteen years, and crossed the Rainbow Bridge on February 15, 2007, the day after her birthday on Valentine’s Day.

During her long life, Trixie was truly a trickster and assumed different roles. Her breeder in Keota, OK said that he always waited until his greyhound pups were “a good size before naming them.” He chose the name Trixie for her, because she seemed more clever than her littermates. He also said that she “made it to the track,” racing in Arizona for several years.

After her racing career ended, Trixie served time as a blood donor. She donated blood on a regular basis at Hemopet, a canine blood bank in Orange County, CA. Hemopet kenneled about fifty greyhounds as blood donors before adopting them out. We don’t know what Trixie thought about giving blood, but we do know that she didn’t like her Hemopet kennel. Her breeder had said that she was clever and he was right. More than once, Trixie undid the latch to get out so the staff nicknamed her “the escape artist”.


Trixie outlived two of our male greyhounds. She also selected a female grey, Staci, to share her home. Staci is now ten years old and she learned a few things from Trixie, including how to age gracefully.