Thinking about adding a dog to your family? Consider a Greyhound. They make great family pets. They have a generally mellow disposition, have already been socialized to people, and are very affectionate.

From Wikipedia:

“Greyhound owners and adoption groups generally consider greyhounds to be wonderful pets. They are pack-oriented dogs, which means that they will quickly adopt humans into their pack as alpha. They can get along well with children, dogs and other family pets.”

From “Characteristics and Temperament” on k9Web.com:

“Greyhounds have a very gentle and quiet disposition. They are very pack oriented dogs and will quickly adopt human masters into their “pack.” To allow different Greyhounds to hunt and race together, aggressiveness towards other dogs and people has been nearly eliminated from the breed.”

There are hundreds of adoption agencies across the U.S. that do a great job of placing these gentle giants.

A good place to start is Adopt-a-Greyhound.org.