Amen!

One of the two remaining dog racing tracks in Texas closed. You can read the article in case you missed it.

While that’s good news, bad news really comes in the form of the 2008 Texas greyhound injury and euthanasia report.

Read it!

What is particulary interesting about the report is that very little info is provided as to why the dogs were euthanized or worse — what caused the injury in the first place. Where is the accountability here? If you don’t know what caused the injury, how can you fix the problem? For a year’s worth of injuries and euthanized greyhounds ”bumped/rolled” was offered a few paltry times in the description as to the cause.

More disturbing is that dogs suffered up to three injuries each. One dog who fractured her leg twice, once in August and once in November, was then euthanized.  Read more about greyhound racing in Texas.

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Whoopee!

Wonderland Greyhound Racing closed in Mass.

That means only one more exists and will close its doors by the end of the year because of the ban on greyhound racing in Mass.

It’s all good news for greyhounds.

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It’s a good day for Arizona when a greyhound track closes and the Phoenix Greyhound Park will close near the end of December. WOO HOO!

Can you imagine that these poor dogs have to race around the track when it’s 100+ degrees from May through September?

Read the article in the Phoenix newspaper. 

Read the 2008 injury & euthanasia report for greyhound racing in Arizona.

Read previous statistics on Greyhound Racing Sucks.

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 Texas has two dog tracks — one is open year around, the other for six months.

In 2008, 350 greyhound racing injuries were reported.

The majority of injuries reported were fractures followed by muscle tears. A dog had a toe torn off, and 20 dogs died while racing or were euthanized post-race.

Notably, 28 dogs suffered up to three injuries each. These inclued Oh Susanna, who fractured her leg twice, once in August and once in November, and then was euthanized.

Oh Susanna did not race to her death once but twice in excruciating pain and cruelty. Why does a dog have to race again after breaking her leg? Where’s the Department of Racing oversight? Where the NGA oversight?

Read the report. Write a letter to the newspaper. Post this report on Facebook and Twitter.

While Texas is bad, Arizona is far worse with  reported injuries and death.

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