Retired Racing Greyhound Adoptions in Northwest Florida

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The Sunburst Kennel project is new, exciting and groundbreaking! Please go to GPA/National’s website for more background information on this collaborative Panhandle Greyhound adoption project: http://www.greyhoundpets.org/

To our knowledge this is the first time ever that pet representatives of three Florida tracks have agreed to work together to place greyhounds. On this the supply end, there is going to have to be a lot of cooperation and collaboration between GPAEC, the Ebro Pet Express adoption program, and GPA/SEGA/Tallahassee. The goal of this teamwork effort is to provide the widest possible selection of vetted/non-vetted, personality profiled, physically assessed greyhounds to groups in non-racing states. It is our hope that this will result not only in those groups getting the grey who will best suit their program but in our being able to move a whole lot more greyhounds from the FL panhandle into adoptive homes.

While we, GPAEC, are taking part in the Sunburst Project it is not our program to “own.” Funding for the Sunburst Adoption kennel is through donations made to the Greyhound Alliance, an adoption facilitating group in Illinois. Facilities for the kennel are through the courtesy of the Ebro Greyhound Park. While our friends at the NoCo are founding members of Sunburst, other adoption groups have expressed interest in this idea and are joining in hoping to make this dream a reality.

At any given time there will be between 60-80 greyhounds in the Sunburst Project kennel at Ebro. While there are various reasons for the selection of Ebro Greyhound Park as a site for the fledgling Sunburst kennel, its location midway between the tracks in Tallahassee and Pensacola was certainly a factor. Sunburst Project Kennel dogs will be available to approved groups in non-racing states and local adoption as well. To fully support this effort, our local adoption process is changing. To show our appreciation to the Ebro Greyhound Park and to support our long time Greyt friend Stacie Strickland, manager of the Ebro Pet Express program, GPAEC will now refer any local adoption requests from the areas surrounding Ebro and Panama City to Stacie and Pet Express. Applications from Pensacola and Ft Walton areas will continue to be processed by GPAEC.

Can we guarantee that this program will be 100% successful? No, of course not. We can tell you that we wholeheartedly believe that it is worth a trial—and that is exactly what we are beginning right now, a six month trial. Please join us in hoping to once again, as we did last year, prove that working together we can make a difference for as many Panhandle Greyhounds as possible! Thank you for your support!

Roger Spencer, President, Board of Directors
Ann Bollens, Executive Director