See part 1 for information about the injury list. Some dogs that were injured at PHOENIX GREYHOUND PARK are now racing at TUCSON GREYHOUND PARK.

Why do dogs have to continue running into the ground for a buck or point or payout?

Here are dogs that were injured in PHOENIX GREYHOUND PARK in 2008 (from the 2008 Arizona Injury List-http://www.grey2kusa.org/pdf/G2K-2008AZInjuryTable.pdf)  that are now racing at TUCSON GREYHOUND PARK:

(The recent racing date/s  is/are in parenthesis.)

BC She’s A Jewel      (12/26/09) 2/14/08  fractured tail
7/24/08  fracture, right ankle  (listed as fracture, don’t know if it was a fracture) (Recovery Time on Injury List:  “2 months if at all”
Notes on injury list: ”I lost count of how many dogs I’ve crippled in the last 2 weeks.” )
8/01/08  lame - What happened to recovery time “2 months if at all”?

Power Ta Power   (12/29/09) 4/20/08   pulled muscle, right leg

DB Anotherchance  (12/26/09) 5/01/08   sick    information “not provided”
7/11/08   fracture, left toe

RPM Spark offire    (12/24/09)  (on schedule for 12/31/09) 5/23/08   information “not provided”

Savvy Single  (12/24/09)   (on schedule for 12/30/09) 6/01/08    lame    information “not provided”

Clever Psycho     (on schedule for 12/31/09) 8/01/08    lame    information “not provided”

Spencer Bell    (12/23/09)   (on schedule for 12/30/09) 8/15/08    break, left toenail

Figs Leila    (12/24/09)   (on schedule for 12/31/09) 8/26/08   sick    information “not provided”

Costar Dodgem    (12/22/09)   (on schedule for 12/30/09) 9/20/08   sick    information “not provided”

Concho Tyra  (12/26/09)  (on schedule again for 12/31/09) 11/05/08  injury information “not provided” (notes on injury list: “Poor effort – no overt evidence of illness on physical exam.  Trainer reports dog appeared (sic) depressed earlier in day.”)

Mississippi Mule  (12/26/09)  (on schedule again for 1/01/10) 11/25/08  dislocation, right toe

Bella Kettle   (on schedule for 12/30/09) 12/18/08   sick, information “not provided”

Greyt Thunder   (on schedule for 12/30/09) 12/22/08 fracture, right hock

RLM’s Divert  (on schedule for 1/01/10) 11/19/08    sick    information “not provided”

Back to the injury list-http://www.grey2kusa.org/pdf/G2K-2008AZInjuryTable.pdf
why is there next to no information provided? You can see this for yourself. Where’s the accountability?

PHOENIX GREYHOUND PARK    percentage of entries with treatment rendered to dog “not provided” = 88.5%

TUCSON GREYHOUND PARK    percentage of entries with treatment rendered to dog “not provided” = 55%

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PHOENIX GREYHOUND PARK -  28 entries with date and dog’s name only; 1 entry with date only, not even dog’s name

TUCSON GREYHOUND PARK - 1 entry with date only, not even dog’s name

Let’s do the math:

469   dogs total

- 15  entries with incomplete dog’s name or no name (unknown greyhounds!)

454  dogs identified

- 28   euthanized at track

426   dogs identified alive after race

Approximately 200 dogs sustained career-ending injuries on the dates shown on the injury report, which includes the dogs that were put to death (euthanasia).

Questions to ponder:

–Is there any veterinarian oversight on dogs being injured and then put back into action on the track?

–If so, what?  If not, why not?

–Are records kept? Where’s the regulation?

–How many times can a greyhound be injured before he or she is retired or euthanized?

–What criteria? If so, who monitors the criteria?

–Is anybody paying attention to what happens to these dogs?

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PHOENIX GREYHOUND PARK closed 12/19/09 for live racing. Nobody expected PHOENIX GREYHOUND PARK to go first not even people in the racing industry.

That leaves TUCSON GREYHOUND PARK and – FYI  — the world is watching.

Last month there were 11 races each night of racing at TUCSON GREYHOUND PARK now there is 15 and  16 races are scheduled for 1/01/10.  More dogs means more accountability required, not less.

If you recall in 2006, 150+ dogs disappeared from TUCSON GREYHOUND PARK. It’s an incident that will be etched in my mind forever so I won’t let you forget either.

There’s a big problem in Arizona greyhound racing and it’s the lack of accountability regarding greyhound welfare. The problem is systemic nationwide but for now let’s focus on Arizona.

It starts with the honorable governor, the honorable attorney general, the ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF RACING, and the dog track.

There are no readily available disposition logs. Like the injury reports which are available to the public through a FOIA request, the disposition logs should be too.

You would think after the disappearance of 150+ dogs (bad news that went around the world and put a big black eye on Tucson/Arizona greyhound racing) that the ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF RACING or a higher power within the state would step up to the plate and ask for more accountability but that hasn’t happened. The ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF RACING is all about wagering with very little concern for greyhound welfare.

I’ll come back to that in a future post but in this post I want to talk about the injury report (in PDF format).

You may recall that the AZ Republic wrote an article about the 2008 injury reports.

A cursory glance and you are stunned by the number of recorded injuries and deaths at the TUCSON GREYHOUND PARK and PHOENIX GREYHOUND PARK. You are also flumoxed by the lack of pertinent information to back up the numbers.

You can read the injury report yourself but here are some statistics that will break your heart.

PHOENIX GREYHOUND PARK   438 entries of injuries, sick and lame involving 372 dogs  (some injured more than once)

PHOENIX GREYHOUND PARK   17 dogs euthanized at track; euthanized for 5 hock fractures, 7 leg fractures, 1 shoulder fracture, 1 pelvis/back, 3 spine

TUCSON GREYHOUND PARK   104 entries of injuries, sick and lame involving 97 dogs (some injured more than once)

TUCSON GREYHOUND PARK   11 dogs euthanized at track; euthanized for 7 hock fractures, 3 leg fractures, 1 information not provided

See blog post Tucson Greyhound Park – Run Dogs Run – part 2 for more information.

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I didn’t get what I wanted on Christmas but a wonderful thing happens today — greyhound racing ends in Mass.

Oh, happy day. It’s the gift that keeps on giving.

That means less greyhounds will be bred and overbred. Less greyhounds will be injured and euthanized.

Almost 900 greyhounds were seriously injured while racing in Massachusetts since 2002.

Read the article and rejoice.

Who’s next?

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Tonight – December 19, 2009 is the last night of live greyhound racing at Phoenix Greyhound Park. Hooray!

Good riddance to 55 years of greyhound abuse and death.

Never forget about one of the incidents when 124 greyhounds were found dead in Chandler Heights with ears cut off so their tattoos were not visible and ownership or blame couldn’t be pointed. That’s all part of the proud and glorious history of Phoenix Greyhound Park.

Tonight for the last 18 last races,  18 dogs from the 2008 Arizona injury list are still racing. Four of the 18 dogs have been injured twice in 2008 and yet continue to race through the end of 2009. I hope to high hell that none of these dogs (18 races x 8 dogs per dogs) are injured so badly that they have to be euthanized tonight.

What’s going to happen to the Phoenix dogs?

Some are going to race elsewhere probably Tucson Greyhound Park and tracks in the Southeast. Some dogs will be adopted. Some will go back to the farm, however, ambiguous that might be. No one in Phoenix has come forward to talk about the disposition of these dogs. Don’t ask. Don’t tell.

We’ll be curious if the Arizona Department of Racing will  continue to encourage and promote the breeding of greyhounds when there’s only one low level track — Tucson.  If ADOR continues to do so, they have no common sense, so much for government regulation.

Oh, and in a state that’s so bankrupt, in 2009, according to the audit report for the Department of Racing, the state of Arizona gave $223,112 in breeding awards to 612 dogs. The money goes to 6% of the breeders.

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I have a blogging hero and his name is Ironicus Maximus. He’s like the Greek god of blogging.

His prose of perfect English is punctuated by calling certain people “idiots”. He sets it up with flowery paragraphs only to throw cold water in my face by calling these mostly guys but there could be exceptions, names that we tell our children not to use.

Guffaws around. I find myself LOLing and smiling.

He’s one of a kind. T.G.Ironicus Maximus.

If you haven’t yet, please read his Friday Hound Blogging.

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