Here’s another reason why we HATE greyhound racing. It doesn’t matter if it’s 105 degrees outside like it is during some Tucson summer nights or icy, snowy, freezing temperatures — greyhounds must race.

For the second day in a row, Raynham in Massachusetts was closed because of frigid weather. Imagine that?

You gotta wonder how low the thermometer must go before they cancel racing? Greyhounds are thin skinned. They don’t have the fur coats of Huskies.

It doesn’t matter if anyone is in the stands or the clubhouse, the show must go on and be transmitted through off-track-betting which is how they make their money anyway.

Let’s hope this time people in Massachusetts vote against greyhound racing. It’s the humane thing to do.

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We don’t know why the media is not exposing this crap about Tucson Greyhound Racing.

But hell, if they won’t — we will.

Here is the official complaint that the Greyhound Protection League sent to Geoffrey Gonsher, Director of Arizona Department of Racing; Janet Napolitano, governor; and Terry Goddard, attorney general/AZ.

As you can see once again TGP (Tucson Greyhound Park) has the audacity to carelessly hand off the dogs to an unscrupulous character who most likely sold unaltered dogs to low lifes for coyote hunting.

First the dogs race and live in abominable conditions then they get transported to god knows where to do god knows what and then they die a painful death. 

This is worse than cockfighting and dog fighting and they’re both illegal!  

Take action: Write the governor, Geoffrey Gonsher, contact the news media, write your congressional representative. Don’t just read this and shrug your shoulders.

We know about 16. How many more will live and die so inhumanely.

It’s time to END TUCSON GREYHOUND RACING.

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Not only is greyhound racing a dying sport, but it’s also so waning that many greyhound tracks have closed this year.  We hope Tucson Greyhound Park (TGP) closes in 2008.

When a track closes it means that they were losing money as people don’t know how to handicap the dogs and rather go to glitzy indian gaming casinos. Also the people who used to go to the greyhound race tracks are dying off and the younger generations have grown up watching Animal Planet and are hip to the greyhound abuse that prevails.

The latest greyhound race track to close was Cloverleaf in Loveland, Colo., on December 4.

And the Corpus Christi greyhound race track will close on December 31.

We hope that both tracks will take responsibility finding adoptive homes for these deserving hounds.

Click here to read the specifics.

http://www.greyhoundnetworknews.org/Breaking%20news%201207.htm

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If you think greyhounds are treated poorly in the Tucson and beyond — they are treated far worse in other countries.

Britain, Australia, Ireland, and Spain are the worst offenders.

Read on.

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Here we go again. Sixteen greyhounds are allegedly missing from TGP.

This happened in October.

In 2005 and 2006, over 150 missing greyhounds (actually 172) went missing and are presumed dead.

You would think heads would roll but nothing happened. TGP continues to exist despite the bad publicity. Has the scrutiny improved? Nope. Has anything improved? Nope.

The hauler, Rick Favreau, had his license suspended in Colorado and Arizona. He got paid $150 per dog to haul 180 dogs (8 were located). Do the math — $27,000. That’s a nice chunk of change even with gas prices as high as they are. I wonder if he reported that income to the IRS.

TGP never asked where the dogs were going and whether they got there. They trusted Favreau who already had a history of  hauling dogs to research labs in the late 90s.

Another day and more missing greyhounds from Tucson Greyhound Park. Business as usual.

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