We are all of us who care about animals. Our primary focus here is the gentle, tolerant, much abused greyhound.
Last year, Animals Australia and the ABC exposed the underbelly of greyhound racing here in Australia and overseas. It’s not a pretty sight.
Have you ever asked yourself these questions?
In Australia, the greyhound and the dingo are the only breeds of dog that you simply cannot choose to bring into your family as an ordinary canine companion.
Even if you go to a breeder and acquire a pup (for a large amount of money because this pup is a potential money spinner), you are not allowed, by law, to let this greyhound run free and it has to wear a muzzle.
Whether you’ve adopted your greyhound from the greyhound industry run group Greyhounds As Pets, or from the RSPCA, the dogs’ home, or other greyhound and animal sanctuaries, every single greyhound who is now a family pet is a reject from the greyhound racing industry.
Every loved, gentle, personable, funny greyhound we are privileged to know is a reject from the industry. Your greyhound who loves nothing more than to lounge on a comfortable bed for hours, play with its friends, run in a paddock or on a beach then come home and snooze some more.
Every adopted greyhound in Australia and around the world, has been churned through the racing industry because it has been deemed a failure - no longer profitable - through injury, or because it was too slow or too shy. The number of greyhounds adopted is a drop in the ocean. In Australia alone, tens of thousands die each year. A few hundred are rescued.
Australia's official national greyhound industry statistics show that some 17,000 greyhounds die every year.
This doesn't include the un-named pups (around half of pups born last year in Tasmania), and as we now know through the investigations of Animals Australia and the reporting by the ABC, it doesn't include those who have been killed in mass graveyards around the country.
It is the greyhound: this beautiful, sensitive, gentle breed, bred purely for potential profit. This is not OK.
The greyhound racing industry kills off thousands of these beautiful beings every year.
Help us to say "No More" to this industry.
Last year, Animals Australia and the ABC exposed the underbelly of greyhound racing here in Australia and overseas. It’s not a pretty sight.
Have you ever asked yourself these questions?
- Why can’t I get a greyhound puppy for a pet, just like I can a lab, a retriever, a whippet, a schnauzer, a poodle, a beagle (etc)?
- Why is it that greyhounds, alone in the canine world along with dingoes, cannot just be your pet from a puppy, like all other breeds?
- What’s going on?
In Australia, the greyhound and the dingo are the only breeds of dog that you simply cannot choose to bring into your family as an ordinary canine companion.
Even if you go to a breeder and acquire a pup (for a large amount of money because this pup is a potential money spinner), you are not allowed, by law, to let this greyhound run free and it has to wear a muzzle.
Whether you’ve adopted your greyhound from the greyhound industry run group Greyhounds As Pets, or from the RSPCA, the dogs’ home, or other greyhound and animal sanctuaries, every single greyhound who is now a family pet is a reject from the greyhound racing industry.
Every loved, gentle, personable, funny greyhound we are privileged to know is a reject from the industry. Your greyhound who loves nothing more than to lounge on a comfortable bed for hours, play with its friends, run in a paddock or on a beach then come home and snooze some more.
Every adopted greyhound in Australia and around the world, has been churned through the racing industry because it has been deemed a failure - no longer profitable - through injury, or because it was too slow or too shy. The number of greyhounds adopted is a drop in the ocean. In Australia alone, tens of thousands die each year. A few hundred are rescued.
Australia's official national greyhound industry statistics show that some 17,000 greyhounds die every year.
This doesn't include the un-named pups (around half of pups born last year in Tasmania), and as we now know through the investigations of Animals Australia and the reporting by the ABC, it doesn't include those who have been killed in mass graveyards around the country.
It is the greyhound: this beautiful, sensitive, gentle breed, bred purely for potential profit. This is not OK.
The greyhound racing industry kills off thousands of these beautiful beings every year.
Help us to say "No More" to this industry.