Windy, the canine alarm clock

So you already have a greyhound at home? A senior greyhound is a perfect addition to every family. They almost always fit in like they have been there from the beginning. And who knows, they just might keep the rest of the pack in line.

"Our lovely Miss Windy, our senior girl keeps us all
young with the joy and laughter she brings to this home."

My Dear Windy • aka I’m The Wind

Windy had 94 races and 20 puppies before she came into the adoption kennel, finally ready to spend the rest of her life in a happy home – it was not as easy to find that happy home as we would have hoped for…..

The first home she was invited to looked to be a nice home at first, but Windy just did not like it there and became very depressed. She actually stopped eating and drinking and her new family worried for her life had no choice but to bring her back to the adoption kennel. She was very thin and dehydrated.

It took a while but she returned to good health, and all of us volunteers loved ‘Miss Windy’ but as she was getting older, 9 years at the time, and due to her shyness it was clear it was going to be difficult to place her again.

I was toying with adopting one more hound – I had already 2 big wonderful boys (littermates). I was talking to one of my volunteer friends about one of the of the hounds I was thinking about but she told me that he wasn’t cat tolerant then she said “What about Windy?”


It was December and I thought about her spending another cold winter in the kennel and how I never had the experience of a senior girl before and for a moment I worried “would she be happy here?”.


Overnight she had entered my heart and I can say I could see her as part of our family and put the adoption process in motion.

By mid-December Windy came home.

She walked in and got to know the ‘boys’, found the water and food dishes and sniffed all the beds. I could tell she was home!


That day we all went for a walk and she marched happily between the boys as though they were the bodyguards of Princess Windy.

At dinnertime I worried …will she eat, that is the real TEST!

I put all the bowls down and she looked at me, I didn’t want her to think I was watching her so I pretended to be rinsing stuff in the sink but looked out of the corner of my eyes and smiled …she was digging in and ate all of her first dinner and licked the bowl clean!
She has always continued to love her meal times!

Windy soon learned the pattern of our days and she decided that the parts of the day she really cared about she would control – that would be her purpose!

So at these times she tells me in her “talkative” way -
(kind of a ouhmm ouhmm sound):

Walk time,
Dinnertime,
After dinner potty time,
Last treat time.

So, I never have to look at the clock or set a timer - Windy has it down and keeps me and the boys on track!

Windy is now 10 years old (will be 11 in July) and still runs like the wind! When I let the group out after I get home from work she is the one sprinting at full speed around the back yard and engaging the boys in a game of tag!

She is the one who pulls the toys out of the toy box to again, engage the boys to play and leap in joy - just pure joy until they are all tired out.


Our lovely Miss Windy, our senior girl keeps us all young with the joy and laughter she brings to this home.