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Many people think of greyhounds as athletes and are not aware of their plight.
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IMO we should deal with the unsatisfactory trainers
are people aware that over 40% of greyhounds bred for racing are killed?
All I can go by are the things I've seen with my own eyes,not just things that are posted on the Internet which can be tilled one way or the other.
The greyhound kennels I've been to have been spot on. The kennel its self was more than adequate for any dog, my own dog doesn't have a bed made up of 5 quilts. The paddocks were 10 times bigger than most rescues require for adoption. A sand training track which is the safest surface for any sighthound to run on. I've never seen or heard of any greyhound trainer feeding the dogs wagg or bakers, the cheap dog food alot of dogs are fed on.
At the track I've seen every dog inspected by a vet before it raced and that includes teeth inspection. After the race the dogs are washed and cleaned so they dont have any sand in their paws and checked over.
All this is what I've seen with my own eyes and not just hear say. Like anything to do with dogs in general there are good and bad. The majority are good, any bad ones and i will be the first in the cue to nail them to the barn door. I can't say what happens in other countries all this is what I've seen in the UK.
Unfortunately you are quoting what you see with your own eyes whilst the dog racing industry fails to be transparent and on the basis of the kennels you have visited whereas there are over 700 kennels in the UK not including the breeding kennels in Ireland where 83% of British greyhounds are imported from. A couple of kennels keeping their dogs in standard conditions does not validate what is happening widespread. If you had a t very least visited 50% of these kennels, maybe it could justify your statement. Although kennel conditions do matter, what is more important is the culling of 6000 greyhounds per year and those killed at tracks amounting to approximately 43% of all bred greyhounds being destroyed for people to sustain a living or hobby, however its perceived.
I have had some good experiances with exracing rescue kennelsHave you personally visited (50%) 350 greyhound kennels to validate your statements.?
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