Daisy was born in Ireland, and raced in the north of England around Sunderland. She was retired from racing after an injury and taken in by Celia and Jim at Greyhound Rescue Fife. Cyrus realised that being rubbish at racing was the fastest path to the sofa and this turned out to be true. He was fostered by us from the Scottish Greyhound Sanctuary, but we very quickly fell in love with him and he found his sofa.

As with anything, this varies from dog to dog. Most greyhounds just love a good sofa though and a couple of short 20 minute walks per day will be all they really need. That said, our two do love a nice long walk when they can, and Daisy has even bagged a munro when she climbed Ben Lomond with us.

Hound diets can be quite varied, but ours mostly eat raw. We discovered it was good for Daisy early on in having her, and certainly helped turn her rear end into less of a chemical weapons facility. That said, different foods work for different dogs and we wouldn't suggest raw feeding for everyone or every dog.

I've measured them by timing them past two posts with a stopwatch, and they can both run at around 40 mph / 65 kph.

Daisy was born in May 2018 and Cyrus 11 months later in June 2019. All racing greyhounds from the UK and Ireland have ear tatoos that include the year and month they were born.