Greyhound racing and cruelty

[Quisling]

Read this

https://www.cagednw.co.uk/greyhoundcruelty.html

Now we see that greyhound racing is a pretty barbaric sport

Now seeing that we get massive protests and anger when a few toffs kill a fox

Why don’t we see similar outrage when some working class folk are killing thousands of dogs?

[mickyh7]

The Dogs are usually shot with an illegal. 22 rimfire on a quiet allotment.
It's been going on forever.
Where did you think all the retired Greyhounds lived?
On a Farm?
Not nice, but pretty painless.
Unlike Foxes, being ripped apart by Dogs.
Which I think is better than starving with scurvy around the suburbs in their 1000's
However, you do see lots of older Greyhounds about nowadays, because this topic has been done to death over the years.
And people are more aware.
A Guy in Northumberland was found guilty of killing hundreds of dogs about 20 years ago.
I think he got a fine?

[mickyh7]

Doesn't the RSPCA kill thousands of healthy dogs each year?

[JagLover]

There are people who will look after retired greyhounds, I know of two such. I think they are usually kept on leads while walking to avoid any unpleasantness with smaller dogs that they might regard as a target.

Any sport involving animals is likely to have injuries and deaths of those animals. If said sport is banned then there is little reason for the animal to be bred in the first place so there is always a balance to be struck IMO.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

I used to race greyhounds. The buggers beat me every time.

[Jim the Sunderer]

There were two independent tracks up here until recently.
From experience it's a backwards sport for dodgy blokes on the dole.

They had a Sun Tzu level strategy of feeding them during qualification so they're slower and thus got a better handicap.

[Biggy Stardust]

Statements from a highly biased source, ie a pressure group with an agenda.

Strong on claims, weak on evidence.

[Randy Winkman]

OP - thanks for linking to that. Is your main point about animal cruelty or the thing about class? The website has stuff about protests and I'm not sure I've ever heard of a "massive" anti-fox hunt protest.

[Flanders.]

Any sport involving racing Animals should be banned.

[gazza285]

Flanders. said:

Any sport involving racing Animals should be banned.

Apart from domestic cat racing.

[Gareth79]

mickyh7 said:

Doesn't the RSPCA kill thousands of healthy dogs each year?

Apparently not? https://www.rspca.org.uk/whatwedo/care/rehabilitat...

[Alucidnation]

Plenty of places rehoming retired Greyhounds.

Someone we know has had one for a year or so, and providing the time is spent retraining them, they can become 'normal' domestic pets.

[HiAsAKite]

We had a retired ex racing greyhound for 7 years. 4 years old when we got him.

Lovely dog - aside from being incredibly fragile, very low maintenance. I would honestly say he slept 22 hours a day, and just got up to eat, do his business, or come for a walk.

Would never let him off the lead in a public space though....... ..was fine in enclosed spaces.

Charities exist for rehoming of ex-racers, and many of them make fantastic family pets.

Problem is the racing industry I suspect produces ex-racers at a rate higher than they can be rehomed...

[skinnyman]

Flanders. said:

Any sport involving racing Animals should be banned.

Race horses are incredibly well kept. If able to respond I suspect most horses would rather be kept as a racing horse than a pleasure horse.

[pubrunner]

mickyh7 said:

The Dogs are usually shot with an illegal. 22 rimfire on a quiet allotment.
It's been going on forever.
Where did you think all the retired Greyhounds lived?

Retired greyhounds go to the same place as retired foxhounds and retired retrieval dogs from shooting.

Along with greyhounds, dogs involved in shooting and hunting pursuits, are seen as commodities, to be disposed of, when they reach about 6 years of age.

Last year, my sister and BIL saved a beautiful 7 year old labrador from a 'bolt' gun; she's had many litters of puppies and when not working, was kept in a mesh cage. She's become a really terrific family pet. I find it very sad, that people will 'dispose' of a trusting, 'surplus' dog, with the same ease in which they might dispose of an empty crisp packet.

[Biggy Stardust]

gazza285 said:

Flanders. said:

Any sport involving racing Animals should be banned.

Apart from domestic cat racing.

[JagLover]

pubrunner said:

Retired greyhounds go to the same place as retired foxhounds and retired retrieval dogs from shooting.

Along with greyhounds, dogs involved in shooting and hunting pursuits, are seen as commodities, to be disposed of, when they reach about 6 years of age.
.

Except that many greyhounds are rehomed. I know of four that have been rehomed and I don't know that many dogs and someone has posted on this thread about their experience.

[rscott]

HiAsAKite said:

We had a retired ex racing greyhound for 7 years. 4 years old when we got him.

Lovely dog - aside from being incredibly fragile, very low maintenance. I would honestly say he slept 22 hours a day, and just got up to eat, do his business, or come for a walk.

Would never let him off the lead in a public space though....... ..was fine in enclosed spaces.

Charities exist for rehoming of ex-racers, and many of them make fantastic family pets.

Problem is the racing industry I suspect produces ex-racers at a rate higher than they can be rehomed...

One greyhojbd asleep on the sofa next to me and another curled up in her bed in front of the fire.

We've rehomed 5 over the last 15 or so years - they make amazing pets, although they basically sleep 22 hours a day..

Photo from the Boxing Day meetup of the dogs rehomed by a local group.


Caged are massively misleading with their claims about what happens to dogs. Some certainly do "disappear" but Caged's own figures deliberately misrepresent what happens to dogs.
5 of the dogs they claim went missing after their racing career finished are in the photo above - despite having been rehomed by the Retired Greyhound Trust