Friday Hound Blogging

You know, it's tough out here for an overlord. There's the constant buzzing in your head, only being able to go to restaurants with pictures of the food on the menu because that whole reading thing just slipped by you about the second or third time you repeated third grade, "working" in a field where the dogs have more skills than you do, and having your children ask you to say you're a used car salesman when their friends ask what you do.

And that only begins to address the whole social pariah thing.

Now, on top of all that, you wake up in the morning and you don't know whether you're going, or coming, or going.

New Hampshire’s two greyhound dog racing tracks won permission today to drop all racing dates. They will continue to operate as simulcast betting centers, and to host gambling events for charities. "This is the best thing to happen to greyhound tracks since we discovered the closed head injury market," said Rick Newman, who represents the Belmont track. "The last thing people want to see at greyhound tracks is greyhounds."

“It costs a lot more money to run live racing than we get from it,” he said.

Well, that's going to happen when your entire customer base is three drunk guys. So good bye to a bad investment, huh?

Legislation forcing a bankrupt slot parlor in Lincoln to offer more greyhound racing is headed to Gov. Don Carcieri. The state Senate voted to force the Twin River racetrack and slot parlor to offer 200 days of racing, instead of the current 125 days.

"We figure if no one comes to the track in the 125 days we gave them, adding 75 more days for no one to come should do the trick," said House Speaker William Murphy. "It's advanced economical theoritizing. You wouldn't understand."

Probably not, but we do wonder how many times you got dropped on your head as a child. Let's ask Governor Carcieri.

Governor Donald Carcieri has vetoed a bill that would have extended greyhound racing at Twin River. "The place is bankrupt for a reason," Carcieri said. "I don't know who's stupider, the overlords, or the legislators."

Hmm...truly a puzzler, right Deal?

Deal Can is very sweet, friendly and outgoing. She likes toys and she likes to play. She likes to be near her foster family all the time. She will follow her foster mom around the house. She is a Second Chance at Life Dog from the Coldwater Prison Program. Deal Can would do well in a working family home with well-mannered children, 7 and up. She is good with other dogs of all sizes and would probably be fine as an only dog. For more information about this dog, and other rescued racing greyhounds looking for homes, go here. If you don't know about the plight of racing greyhounds go here.

And if you 'd like to know more about the good work the Second Chance at Life program is doing for the dogs, and the prisoners, go here.