30
Oct
Yet Another Greyhound Dies From the Track
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Spectators at Yarmouth greyhound stadium were horrified to see a dog ‘break down’ and be taken off the track yelping in pain, last week. In a telling comment made by the trainer George Parker co-owner Anne Cossey, the value of the young greyhound’s life became clear, he said, “If there had been anyway, I would have saved him, but I don’t really want a three legged dog… you know if people see a three legged greyhound up the road its not a very good advert is it?” Nice. Good to see that these animals have a value aside from just simply being commodities.
Greyhound racing is an indisputably large and highly lucrative business which leaves many dogs dead in its wake. It also fuels the continual breeding (and ultimate mistreatment) that the animals receive suffer through after they are no longer making the grade, or phrased less diplomatically, making the money. People bet on these dogs, pumping money and support into a ’sport’ that leaves hundreds of dogs suffering from broken bones, homelessness and abuse when they can’t race anymore (usually around 3-4 years old). From the day they are born, greyhounds bred for racing face a life of almost certain misery, which is often put to an end with a shotgun or a shot of baking soda into the blood system. Here are just a few of the favoured killing methods: battering to death, shooting, poisoning, drowning and leaving the dog to simply starve to death. It’s at this point that I’d like to remind you that we are a country of ‘animal lovers.’ Ahem.
So sad… When will they learn..