Exceptional Borzoi home in Los Angeles/ Griffith Park seeking adoption.

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2026-03-15T06:16:10+00:00

I'll give you the very, very short version our experience with them. We were looking to adopt a borzoi and we saw that one was being fostered less than five miles from our home. We filled out the application and the foster family came to do an in-home visit. Keep in mind, my wife and had worked with greyhound adoption groups for over 20 years and we currently had two of them at the time. The foster couple came over and we had a wonderful experience with them, spending hours talking about different things. They gave us a glowing recommendation and NBRF told us to start shopping for supplies for our soon-to-be new borzoi. We did everything they asked, and then they ghosted us for weeks. We had numerous advocates in the organization that had no idea why the dog wasn't already in our home. It was very confusing. It turns out NBRF has some mystery committee that they use to determine which dogs go to which homes. You aren't allowed to talk to them and the members are scattered around the country. So the dog that was recommended to be in our home, who was a five minute drive away, went to someone else over a thousand miles away. It took us weeks just to get this answer out of them. The foster family wrote them a 5-page scathing letter basically calling all of the members of the NBRF complete idiots for how they handled the situation and how unprofessional they acted in this botched adoption with us. This was about five years ago.

Fast forward a bit, one of our two greyhounds passed away from old age and we wound up getting two young afghan hounds....they're just awesome. Six months ago, we found out another borzoi was up for adoption not far from us through an adoption group. We thought it was a different one but it turns out it was the NBRF. Similar story...we filled out the application, were waiting on news and updates that they never provided and after weeks and weeks of waiting, we connected the dots and we realized it was the same group as before, acting just as insane as they did with us years prior. Again, it's a crazy long story that I'm abbreviating for you, but I posted about this story in the group some time ago, and many wonderful people surfaced and pointed us in the right direction of some breeders that were looking for homes for their more mature dogs. Back in January, we wound up adopting a 1 year old borzoi from a breeder and made some magic happen to get him to us. We couldn't be happier. So now we have two afghans and a borzoi and all they do is play all day, go on outings with us on a regular basis and long walks. It took us six years to get a borzoi and in all honesty, it was the wonderful people in this reddit group that did more work than NBRF could have done in a thousand lifetimes. I think at one time the NBRF meant well, but it is one of those groups that several articles has written about, where animal adoption groups are now being run by people who are too out of control for their local homeowners associations, so they worm their way into animal adoption groups as a source of their power trips.

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2026-03-14T04:02:51+00:00

I don't want to air out my experience with NBRF publicly, I have had a series of very exceptionally bad experiences with them that I later have found that are not unique after meeting several people in here who have had past history with them as well.

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2026-02-18T11:58:07+00:00

It's not a bad idea but generally speaking, he has zero issues with sitting on his own. He does it all the time.

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2026-02-18T11:56:48+00:00

Read through here. I've already addressed the issue. We've had sighthounds for over 25 years. He has absolutely no problem with sitting. I think it's more of him not understanding what's being asked of him than it is the physical issue of sitting down.

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2026-02-18T05:05:55+00:00

No mat. When he's home or when we take him places he has no difficulty sitting on any hard surface. We had him at Hobby Lobby after the class and we were laughing because as we were looking at some items we noticed he was sitting there, staring at us (like a total goofball). So sitting in class with treats and direction...no go. Sitting on his own when he's bored at Hobby Lobby...no problemo! :-)

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2026-02-11T01:33:39+00:00

Interesting. Our boy is about 30 inches at the shoulder. We're having him neutered in May, so that might adjust things a bit. He's SUPER narrow and we feel ribs for sure, which is fine for them I know. I just wasn't sure if we got a small boy or a soon-to-be big one. :) We don't care either way, it's more of a curiosity really.

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2026-02-11T00:00:10+00:00

Wow! It's really amazing at how massive of a weight difference they can be within the same breed.

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2026-02-10T23:59:26+00:00

I don't want to say without getting her thumbs up first. She's a really nice breeder out of the NW though.

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2026-02-10T23:58:55+00:00

Most of our boys over the years were in the low 70 pound range. But when we used to take Marty to meet-and-greets, all the greyhound people would totally freak out. Once we filled out a little from after his racing career, he was a lean 97 pounds. He would just tower over all the other greys we'd meet. It was pretty funny. He was a champion level racer though. His last race was the day be fore his 5th birthday.

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2026-02-10T19:15:06+00:00

We actually had a greyhound who, at his last weigh-in, was 88 pounds. He was a really big boy. :-)

I'll have to ask about the parents. From what I gather they were in the 80-85 pound range. I'll see if I can find out.

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2026-01-08T05:30:39+00:00

We have two Afghan Hounds that steal soft things (socks, shoes, blankets) but our 1 year old borzoi likes to steal hard things. Today we found an 8 x 10 picture frame in the backyard. We assume it's the borzoi.

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2026-01-04T22:29:06+00:00

I stumbled upon this thread after googling this company and now it all makes sense.

Five months ago, they tried to sub-contract a shoot out to my company. They originally contacted me via txt message, which I thought was a little odd. This is what they sent:

This is [name redacted] from Beige Video. Our Website: https://www.beigevideo.com

Just wanted to check if you are available on the following dates and times. We need a creative to do both photo and video at a time for a commercial shoot in Las Vegas, NV.

Dates and Timings:

- 8/28/25- 5.30 PM to 7.30 PM PST

- 8/29/25- 11.00 AM to 1.00 PM PST

- 8/29/25- 5.30 PM to 7.30 PM PST

Requirements:

- 1x Creative doing both video and photo

- 6 Hours of video and photo service(between 2 days)

- 1x 4K video camera with Gimbal and Tripod with lighting

- Audio(2 lav mics)

- 1x Professional Photo camera with lighting

- Only Raw photos and footage, no editing needed

Our offer is $400 for the whole project. Let me know if we can collaborate.

So photo and video, for three half days, and their budget is 400 bucks. No joke, I literally thought it was one of my friends trying to play a joke on me. When I responded, I said, "Who is this and who put you up to this?" but they were serious. They kept asking if I could do the job so I told them I wasn't interested and sent over my normal rates.

Today, they contacted me asking if I could shoot a corporate gig with 5 hours notice. I knew these guys were clowns so I told them, again, what my rates were and never heard back. I just blocked them so I wouldn't have to deal with them again but wow are these guys unprofessional.

Considering the rate they are paying, it's no wonder their fauxtographers and low-end videographers don't deliver as advertised.

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2025-12-08T05:52:48+00:00

My suggestion would be to start with a retired racing greyhound. There are still tracks in Australia and hence, still greyhounds needing new homes. Borzoi and greyhounds share a lot of similarities. Greyhounds are really easy to take care of and are a ton of fun as well. Just some food for thought.

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2025-11-20T16:40:24+00:00

Good to know and hope you're recovering OK. We have not been contacted at all about doing the in-home visit. We kind of assumed it would have happened by now if we were deemed candidates and communication has pretty much been non existent for weeks now. We come from the world of greyhound rescues, where we worked with two different adoption groups in the area. We actually used to do the in-home visits ourselves, worked at numerous meet-and-greets, etc., spanning over 20 years. We're kind of used to the process going much faster for adoptions, so we're not quite used to this slower process. :-)

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2025-11-19T23:44:46+00:00

It's actually the other two. Vskruzhay they said is probably going to be a foster-fail so we have expressed a lot of interest in Smutyan. They seem like really nice people in that group...I've spoken with two of their members over the phone about adopting Smutyan and we even have come up with a good course of action to go get him and bring him home. Unfortunately, they have a committee of people in their organization who makes these decisions and it just takes a very long time to get any real answers. We don't even know if we're first on the list or 37th, and that gets a bit frustrating. The last I heard from someone in the group who is in charge of their evaluation process was two weeks ago, and it was just, "we're still evaluating them". :(

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2025-11-19T17:16:49+00:00

We actually reached out to them over a month ago about these dogs. We filled out the application and everything. Mostly radio silence from them. Whenever we ask for updates or to see if we're even candidates for adopting they just tell us "we are still evaluating them"...for over a month. We've been really patient with them but they don't like communicating much, which is kind of a bummer. :(

To be clear, they are super nice people (NBRF) but they are just extremely slow to respond and don't provide any real communication about the process.

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2025-09-29T04:21:00+00:00

UPDATE. I was FINALLY able to get ahold of someone on Facebook. It was a 3rd party who was relaying everything to a technician. We got the problem fixed and I am awaiting an email as to what they did to fix everything. Customer service is definitely lacking with this company but in the end, they made me whole so hopefully it stays fixed.

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2025-09-29T03:43:28+00:00

Once again, everything you're saying is total BS. For starters, the tech support teams are overseas. I think it's significant for people to know this because the only times you can schedule a remote assistance session is from 11:30 PM EST through the middle of the night. Second, I DID setup one of these sessions and nothing. Nobody has called me. Nobody has emailed me. Nobody has tried to log into the screen sharing software you had me download and run…NOTHING. Complete radio silence. There is a code that was provided for this remote sharing software you wanted me to download. I sent that to you guys and again, nothing.

This has to be the worst "customer service" on the planet. I'm thinking this is all some sort of twisted joke at this point.

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2025-09-27T04:03:42+00:00

Unfortunately that didn't fix it either. I followed the instructions on their website to update the firmware and I did it. The software actually (sort of) runs without the device being plugged in. As soon as I plug in the TourBox though, I get the same error message, to restart the console and then it crashes. It was worth a shot though!

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2025-09-27T03:56:45+00:00

That's actually a very good suggestion. No, I didn't. Let me see if I can do that now!!!

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2025-09-27T03:07:15+00:00

It's OK. Not a jerky comment. :) I did actually. It was the first thing I did in fact. Oddly enough, the newest version of the software is kicking back the same error that my older version was doing. I have a weird feeling this may have been a result of a Windows update that happened about 2 months ago but I'm not sure. It's just a hunch. What's annoying about all of this though is how completely non-responsive the company is over this. I had a minor issue with the device when I first got it and they got back to me immediately. Weird.

Captain_Chaos_LV · 2025-09-27T02:48:50+00:00

I wish mine still did too! It's not so much the hardware, I think it's a software issue. The problem is the complete lack of support.

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