Elizabeth Sherrington, at age 78, decided to adopt. She weighed the decision carefully and did some research. She determined that she wanted to become the guardian of a female named Amy who is 56 years old. She figures she will outlive her adoptee who is only expected to live to the age of 84. Now the math for this endeavour may not seem to add up to you. That is because Amy is a dog and Elizabeth is calculating with the dog age ratio of seven to one.
Her new housemate is not just any older dog though. It is a magnificent brindle coloured greyhound named Amy whom she adopted from the Chinook Winds Greyhound Rescue Foundation out of Calgary. Chinook Winds has been around for some years now and has been responsible for finding homes for over 1,200 greyhounds to date! They are an all-volunteer, registered charitable organization dedicated to finding homes for retired racing greyhounds.  
Having fostered and rescued more than twelve of these wonderful animals myself I can speak, with some authority, about this long running effort to save thousands of beautiful, sleek and loving creatures from what was as one time a horrific fate.
Anyone who meets an adopted racer is immediately taken by their gentle nature and distinctive grace of movement. It is presumed by most that these are hyper hard to control hound dogs but they are in fact the direct opposite. Chinook Winds usually tells the adoptee that their choice will turn into a couch potato. As the pictures indicate this is generally the case.
Adopted racers soon discover they have unlimited freedom, something denied them for most of their lives. They get to go for a walk or a controlled run, eat when they feel like and eliminate when they feel like. An American track dog spends most of its life in a two by three by four pen with three or four short outings a day in an exercise pen for a bathroom break, occasional training runs on the track and once or twice a week for a fast burn around the track.
The track that I rescued dogs from in Post Falls, Idaho had no less than 1200 dogs in kennels there. The first time I was allowed to approach a kennel area I was struck by the fact that there was no noise. It is testimony to this breeds temperament that they are that well behaved. In fact, Elizabeth has never heard Amy bark and she has had her for six months.