Greyhound Action Alert! Help Stop Dewsbury Dog Track! Please Help Stop This Track Dewsbury Rams rugby league club have announced their intention of building a greyhound stadium on land at Owl Lane, Dewsbury, which they lease from Kirklees Council. Please contact the two local MPs for the Dewsbury area, asking them to do whatever they can to stop the track going ahead. They are Ann Taylor, MP for Dewsbury, and Mike Wood, MP for Batley and Spen. Details are: Mrs Ann Taylor MP, Dewsbury Business and Media Centre, Wellington Rd East, Dewsbury, WF13 1HF taylora@parliament.uk Phone: 01924 324999 Fax: 01924 324998 Mike Wood, Tom Myers House, 9 Cross Crown Street, Cleckheaton, BD19 3HW mike.wood@geo2.poptel.org.uk Phone 01274 335233 Fax: 01274 335235
Greyhound racing is a very cruel industry, contributing to the deaths and mistreatment of thousands of dogs when they are no longer fit for racing....
check.this.out.....http://hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=46482edit....will.show.you..... Thousands of greyhound pups and young dogs are put to death because they fail to reach racing standards. We estimate that over 10,000 are killed annually in the British Isles. Dogs which actually make it to the track are very likely to experience suffering during their racing careers. The British greyhound racing industry has admitted that 500 - 1,000 retired greyhounds are put to death every year. This alone would be enough to justify a ban on greyhound racing, but the true figure for retired dogs killed is, sadly, far, far higher. Quite possibly as many as 6,000. Many ex-racing greyhounds are simply abandoned and a large number are killed, sometimes by extremely cruel methods such as drowning or poisoning, because some owners and trainers are not prepared to pay the cost of having them put to sleep by a vet. Every year many hundreds of "unwanted" greyhounds are shipped to Spain to be kept for racing in appalling conditions or used for hunting and coursing. Dogs which turn out to be no good for hunting are often brutally disposed of, with hanging being a favourite method. The only way to prevent the massive suffering and killing of greyhounds caused by the greyhound racing industry is for greyhound racing to be abolished. It is interesting to note that this has already happened in the USA, where six states have banned greyhound racing since 1993. In the meantime it is important that people avoid attending or betting on greyhound racing, so that it gradually comes to an end through lack of finance and support. http://www.greyhoundaction.co.uk/
okay .. curious but can you or is there any fact, data, or proof to back this up? its your viewpoint that interests me
So how much information would you like? One of two greyhounds who suffered a horrific death and were found washed up on a shore with concrete bricks tied to their necks.The once-prized animals were found off a pier in West Cork with ropes and bricks tied to their necks to make them drown. Tom Mellif from Skibbereen was out walking one morning along the banks of the River Ilen when he saw the dogs."I was horrified -- I know the stretch of the river well and the dogs had been dumped overnight," said Mr Mellif, a consultant construction engineer. Both dogs -- aged one and two years old respectively -- had been well cared for in life. Yet their owners had decided to cruelly end their lives as the animals became a liability. The dogs were among an estimated 4,000 greyhounds who are slaughtered or abandoned each year in Ireland. this is a summary, for the full story http://www.greyhoundrescue.co.uk/news/star242.htm Minnie. Minnie, an 11 year old female greyhound, in the terrible conditions she was being kept in at Barry Wilkinson's kennels. The photo was taken shortly before she was rescued (together with Twiggy etc.). Minnie is now in a great home, thanks to Greyhound Compassion. http://www.hounddog.org.uk/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/3210234.stm http://www.betrayed.org.uk/website/greyhound/greyhound/page1.html http://www.league.uk.com/greyhounds/index.htm http://www.hounddog.org.uk/greyhound_need_home.htm
Hahahaha .. sounds like you fell on your face and smashed all your teeth in ... lmao. Yep all that information should do me .. sorry I was too lazy to go look it up myself and get you guys to do it for me despicable
