Two years ago today — Feb. 20, 2008 – three dogs were injured at Tucson Greyhound Park. Two fractured their toes the previous night. That’s four dogs in two days with fractured toes. What’s the problem?

Checkin U Out fractured a right toe. Treatment is listed as not provided. We don’t know if treatment was or was not provided. The recovery time listed as 8 weeks. Comments: “3 in 2 nights??!!” Even the kennel operators are perplexed by the toe fractures.

For Checkin U Out, this was a career ending injury after 34 races.   What happened to this racing greyhound?

Also on the same night, Cody fractured a right toe. The toe was wrapped but the recovery time was not provided.

Yet another injury on the same night, RD’s Beemer dropped muscle “right rear”, treatment  not provided. According to the report this was “career ending” and “1st schooling race.”  Hopefully, Beemer lucked out and found a forever home but we have no way of knowing.

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