Supporters

• The Barry and Savannah French-Poodle Memorial Fund
• Hope for Hounds
• The Greyhound Project, Inc
• The Morris Animal Foundation
• The ACVIM Foundation
• The Iams Company
• And numerous Greyhound Adoption organizations and Greyhound "parents"

Corporate Sponsors

All dog and cat blood donors are fed courtesy of The Iams Company.

All dog and cat blood donors receive Frontline and Heartgard courtesy of Merial.

All dog and cat blood donors receive Advantix and Advantage courtesy of Bayer Animal Health.

VPL provides D.A.P. and Feliway for the wellbeing of our blood donors.

Donors receive 4DX and FIV/FeLV snap tests courtesy of Idexx Laboratories.

All our cat blood donors are tested with Solo Step FH provided by Heska.

Regarding Greyhounds

• Greyhound Pets of America
• National Convention
• Greyhound Adoption of Ohio
• SOS Galgos - Greyhound Rescue
  Barcelona, Spain
  Spanish language site with minimal English translations

Research for Greyhound Health and Wellness

Completed Projects

The results of these investigations have either been published in peer-reviewed veterinary journals or are currently in press :

• Vertebral heart size in retired racing Greyhounds.
  Normal Greyhounds have higher vertebral heart scores than non-Greyhounds. The current parameters for vertebral heart score to determine an enlarged heart in non-Greyhound dogs should not be applied to Greyhounds since this could result in misdiagnosis of cardiomegaly. ( View article)
• Serum creatinine concentration in retired racing Greyhounds.
  Greyhounds  have a higher serum creatinine concentration than non-Greyhound dogs, so this should be taken into account when evaluating healthy Greyhounds and those with suspected renal disease.
  ( View article)
• Abnormal eosinophil granulation in retired racing Greyhounds.
  Greyhounds have a high prevalence of vacuolated eosinophils and this should be recognized when evaluating blood smears because they may be inaccurately identified as toxic neutrophils.
  ( View article)
• Serum protein electrophoresis in retired racing Greyhounds.
  Greyhounds have lower concentration of serum proteins than non-Greyhounds due to low alpha and beta globulins. These should be kept in mind when evaluating both healthy and sick Greyhounds.
  ( View article)
• Effects of blood donation on systolic blood pressure in retired racing Greyhounds. 
  The collection of one unit of blood (450 ml's) results in a short but significant decrease in the systolic arterial blood pressure, although adverse events were not seen.
  ( View article)
• Left-sided systolic murmur in retired racing Greyhounds.
  Greyhounds with a soft (1-2/6) ejection murmur have significantly higher peak aortic velocity than Greyhounds without murmurs; this does not appear to be associated with an obvious congenital anatomical defects.
  ( View article)
• Platelet function using a point-of-care platelet function analyzer (PFA-100®)in retired racing Greyhounds.
  Greyhounds have significantly shorter closure time than non-Greyhounds when using both Collagen/ADP and Collagen/EPI cartridges, so the PFA-100® seems especially suited as a point-of-care instrument to evaluate primary hemostasis in Greyhounds with bleeding diathesis.
  ( View article)
• Glomerular filtration rate in Greyhounds and non-Greyhound dogs.
  Healthy Greyhounds have higher glomerular filtration rate than non-Greyhounds, so high serum creatinine in healthy Greyhounds may be due to the high muscle mass in this breed.
  ( View article)
• Web-based health survey in retired racing Greyhounds
  Comparison with results of a survey in AKC Greyhounds. A standardized survey method was used, and survey responses were collected by an Internet survey. Owners could answer a survey for every Greyhound that they had owned since January 1, 2005. ( View article)

Manuscripts in Preparation for Publication

The following is a list of completed studies. The results of these studies are being prepared for submission to peer-reviewed veterinary journals. Because these results have not yet been published we can only share the titles with you at this time.

• Clinicopathologic features of appendicular osteosarcoma in Greyhounds.
• Hemostatic abnormalities in Greyhounds with postoperative bleeding (founded by the ACVIM foundation).
• Results of a web-based health survey in retired racing Greyhounds.
• Clinical pathology in the Greyhound-A review.
• Postamputation adjuvant low-dose suramin and doxorubicin in dogs with appendicular osteosarcoma.
• Serum folate and cobalamine concentrations in retired racing Greyhounds.
• Plasma and salivary cortisol concentrations in healthy retired racing Greyhounds.
• Serum immunoglobulin concentration (IgG, IgA, and IgM) in retired racing Greyhounds.
• Postamputation complications in retired racing Greyhounds.
• Circadian variation in von Willebrand factor concentration in retired racing Greyhounds.
• Changes in acute phase proteins after routine surgery (ovariohysterectomy or orchiectomy) in Greyhounds and non-Greyhounds.