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Greyhounds Persuasive Speech

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Good morning, I’m here to talk to you about preventative healthcare in greyhounds.

My companion animal placement was with a program that organises the fostering and adoptions of greyhounds, often getting 30 dogs into foster homes and 30 dogs into adoptive homes every month. As such, they and the veterinary clinic they associate closely with are in charge of establishing a preventative healthcare routine for hundreds of dogs through their foster programs and attempting to persuade adopters to maintain this routine.
Furthermore, a shelter they work closely with often has around 15 dogs at a time and as such must stay on top of several preventative treatments such as flea and worming healthcare.

Before every foster care or adoption process takes place, an employee of the enterprise conducts either a group information session with several prospective foster carers/adopters or individual sessions with the primary future dog carer to discuss many aspects of caring for greyhounds, and preventative health care is a major topic for discussion. All dogs are desexed and microchipped prior to adoption and there is no space for argument in this matter. Desexing is important for several reasons but two of the most significant reasons are to decrease the chance of cancer and to mediate any aggressive behaviours. Fleaing and worming is encouraged monthly, and three months worth of this treatment is given to adopters. While at the shelter, I did encounter flea dirt on one of the dogs I was

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