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We agree. It's not a very flattering name, but it's the one given
to her during her track days. She came to live with our team
captain in 2003 when he was living in South Florida. He met
someone from a Greyhound adoption group while practicing amateur
racing with his Whippets. For four weeks, they begged
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Call Name: Josie
Breed:
Greyhound
DOB:
05/21/2001
Owner:
Dana Hanson
Debut:
04/15/2007
NAFA:
FDCh-S
U-FLI:
TF-III
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him to take her. . . . and they baited him:
"Look, she even likes tennis balls. You can do ANYTHING with
this dog."
She,
in fact, liked tennis balls, but Josie would train for three and a
half years before being anywhere near ready to compete. Many of
her early training sessions
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frightening
zooms around our close-quarters training area. Very gradually,
those zooms became less frequent and Josie became more focused on
training.
She
left our beginner group and joined team lineups at practice for the
first time in February 2007. She ran anchor, and
with a couple
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warm-ups out of the way, managed to complete five heats without error.
She made her tournament debut April
2007 at Flyball at the Peach Blossom in Perry, Georgia, joining our
division 3 team for its last race of the weekend. She earned 60
points and was clearly very proud of herself. We were proud of
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She has had fun
and has run reliably for the year and a half since that time. She
takes great pleasure in hurling the tennis ball at her handler upon
her return and sits poised for her reward afterward.
Josie is
the fifth highest pointed Greyhound in NAFA and the fastest and most
highly pointed Greyhound in
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