Why Greyhound Racing MUST Stop 

The greyhound racing industry is one of the largest puppy mills in Australia.

It relies on breeding an enormous excess of greyhounds to find the few champions. The industry is characterised by routine killings of puppies and dogs, greed and profits.

Numbers don’t lie and the greyhound racing industry publishes its figures annually. The interesting numbers are below: greyhound litters registered versus greyhounds named for racing between 2003 and 2011.

Let’s make some sense out of these numbers: each litter consists of an average of 7 puppies so this means the following:

Every year an average of 10,000 greyhounds (38%) don’t even make it to the tracks and are discarded. Because they are too slow, because they are injured, because they don’t chase!

The ones that make it to the track are not better off. Serious injuries such as head trauma and broken legs are common and death by euthanasia is the result. Most injuries are not economical to treat so vets are on stand by at each race and ready to euthanise. But rest assured, it is done in the most humane way as possible to minimise suffering. Ha ha, good one!

The industry is not really fazed however as long as it has GAP, the greyhound adoption program, to generate the feel good stories for PR. GAP is the greyhound adoption program run by the racing industry since 1996 and has re-homed 4,000 greyhounds since. That’s an average of 250 greyhounds ever year in the past 16 years. The racing minister Denis Naphtine in Victoria (now also the Victorian Premier)  calls this “a great success” and generously allocates $1 million out of the $79.5 million budget over the next 4 years.

That’s only about 1% of the total budget dedicated to the welfare of the greyhounds!  Your tax money!

It’s also worth mentioning that for example the program manager for GAP in Victoria races greyhounds herself. Come on, with “friends” like this who needs enemies? That’s like having a cocaine addicted drug therapist.

It is more likely for a greyhound to be killed, kept for breeding, given away to vet schools and laboratories for cruel examples than to be rescued by GAP. Some very unlucky greyhounds also are exported for racing to China or worse: human meat consumption. Find out more here and here.

Some people ask “What’s wrong with that?” and happily gamble away the lives of thousands of greyhounds. However, we are 100% against the racing industry and wish our tax money would not support the racing industry.

It is our mission to rescue as many greyhounds as possible and raise awareness to end this sick industry once and for all.

If you would like to find out more about our work and get involved, please contact us via email kaysgreys@gmail.com or phone Martina on 04202 71995

(This post has been re-blogged from Kay’s Greys).

I have two beautiful rescued greyhounds from Kay’s Greys and Greyhound Rescue NSW – they are gentle and kind and funny and are happy playing at home just like a ‘normal’ dog. We wouldn’t be without them and want to help educate people about what the racing industry is really like.