Hi, Lori, greyhounds are lovely, wonderful dogs! Willow is very cat-like, in fact! I never even wanted a dog (always been a cat person) until I met a greyhound and just fell in love with their sweet, gentle nature.
She was bred and raised to race in Florida, but wasn't fast enough to make the grade, so was adopted out at about 18 months of age. If you're interested, here's a link to a Minnesota Greyhound Adoption Group:
http://www.gpa.mn.org/
and another to a greyhound message board I'm addicted to (member name is kristijewell there):
http://www.greytalk.com/~forums/index.php?act=idx
If anyone has any questions about retired racing greyhounds as pets, please feel free to PM me or post on greytalk.com!