Good News: Texas Dog Track Closes
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.
Ya know there is regulation in the US maybe not the best but imagine the racing in Mexico is going to get big and the greyhounds will be in pre- 1995 conditions which makes me cringe as reading the horror stories these dogs lived and this is their future we have a few greys and I can’t imagine these creatures going through that
The Tijuana track has a better adoption program than the Tucson Track. Don’t get me wrong, internationally there is a tremendous amount of work to be done. It starts in our own backyard though. Please don’t distract from the issue at hand which is tracks closing in the United States. Which is a positive thing for the dogs, present and future.
We could keep cleaning up their mess forever, or we could say as a nation “NO More” We’ve had it. The racing industry breaks the rules and bites the paw that feeds them over and over. If you are going to use an animal for profit, respect what the animal has done for you.Treat her with respect. Don’t cage her for 22-23 hours a day, don’t shoot her up with dangerous steroids, don’t feed her bacteria ridden raw meat. The greyhound that bought the operators house lays shot in a ditch with it’s ears cut off. No More. We tried to play nice, we tried to get you to treat the dogs better. You say no, we say NO MORE.