Bella is a retired racing Greyhound. She had a winning racing career that lasted several years. She raced as "Boccabella" in Phoenix, Arizona. Unfortunately she broke her right front leg in a race, and while she was splinted and recovering, her trainer passed away. In the following hectic days, her splint came off and the break was made much worse. Rather than amputating the leg, it was decided to place a metal plate at the wrist joint. Now fully recovered, she has no flexibility in that front wrist and so she usually holds the leg up when walking. She kind of hops around on her three good legs.

With her high drive, being "handicapped" doesn't slow her down at all. When she is allowed to run off leash in a fenced park, she keeps up with the fastest Greyhounds there. When running she uses all four legs and the first time we took her out we did a "double-take" to be sure it was our girl running so fast on four legs!

She has quite a personality, and we are so happy to have added her to our lives. She was in foster care for almost a year, because no one wanted to adopt a "damaged" dog. Stupid people...but great for us, and we have her now.

She was our first Greyhound, but not our last. Check out Kingman's page!