Goodbye and good riddance. The last dog track in Wisconsin closed its doors.

Depending on what articles you have read, 350 to 900 dogs will need to be adopted or go elsewhere to race or back to the farm for breeding and dog knows what else.

Here are some articles about Dairyland and the mistreatment of the dogs. For you diehards out there who say, “Oh, but the dogs love to race.” Read these articles:

Four Dairyland dogs bleed to death.

Dogs may like to run but not on frozen tundra tracks. Thanks to the anonymous employees who spoke out!

A (PDF) history pockmarked by bad incidents.

The weather plays a role in injuries at Dairyland. The dogs are subjected to rain, wind, snow, sleet and very dry conditions.

There are more article, more tragedies, and many more abuses. Enough said for now.

My hope is that the majority of these dogs find loving forever homes and don’t have to race to their death at other tracks, aren’t disposed of, or sent to blood banks or laboratories to be used as medical experiments.

So which is the first dog track to close in 2010?

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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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Wow!  Who would want to go to a dumpy dog track when they could go to a beautiful Las Vegas style Indian gaming casino that costs $215 million? This surpasses the previous Indian gaming casinos. This is the second generation of glam fun.

Good thing Phoenix Greyhound Park is closing since it’s in the ghetto and nobody would want to go to a racino there anyway when they can go here.

More, more beautiful, high tech, entertainment-oriented Indian gaming casinos. This one has a 5-AAA diamond restaurant too. Bring it on!

No more greyhound racing dog tracks. Close their doors forever. No new predatory gambling racinos in Ariz. At these slick and shiny Indian gaming casinos, no 4-legged animals ever die in the name of sport or greed.

Kill Phoenix and Tucson greyhound racing and racinos in their tracks. Support the Indian gaming casinos.  

Racinos will prop up the dying industry of greyhound racing; dog tracks are closing all over the United States. 

 Write or call your AZ legislators and tell them more racinos would mean more greyhound racing and more greyhound racing means more Ariz. racing greyhounds will be injured and die. There’s been enough greyhound blood in Phoenix and Tucson.

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Good news! Good news! Good news!

Since 2004, 17 tracks have closed for live racing from the West Coast to the East, North and South.   Two more are slated to close within three months.

–Apache Greyhound Park (AZ),
–Multnomah Greyhound Park (OR),
–Plainfield Greyhound Park (CT),
–Geneva Lakes (WI),
–Shoreline Star (CT),
–Cloverleaf (CO),
–Jacksonville Kennel Club (FL),
–Tampa Greyhound Park (FL),
–Wichita Greyhound Park (KS),
–Corpus Christi (TX),
–The Woodlands (KS),
–Hinsdale (NH),
–Mile High (C0),
–Belmont (NH),
–Seabrook (NH),
–Wonderland (MA),
–Valley Park (TX) 

–Phoenix (AZ) and Raynham Park (MA) will close in December 2009

Once Raynham shuts down, with no other closures until then, there will be 24 operational tracks in nine states.

24 is too many. Find out more about how you can take action.

This is all good news.

Old people who are drawn to the cruel sport of greyhound racing are diminishing in numbers and the generation that grew up watching Animal Planet are hip to the cruelty of greyhound racing. 

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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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With all the horrible and cruel news out there regarding greyhound racing, it does my heart good to read some promising news now and then.

–In Massachusetts the Greyhound Protection Act came under fire but the people and the dogs succeeded not the track. Dog racing still bites the dust in 2010 just like the voters wanted.

–New Hampshire’s House of Representatives passed a budget amendment requiring dog tracks to start paying the costs of their own regulation.* The tracks must either compensate the state one half million dollars a year, or suspend all live racing activities. The measure is now under consideration in the State Senate. Dog racing is a fiscal waste!

Also in New Hampshire, House Bill 630, which will make dog racing illegal, now continues its way through the legislative process. Go New Hampshire!

–Twin River, Rhode Island’s only dog track, announced that it will no longer race dogs at the facility after this summer. The same owners have already ended live racing in the state of Colorado! Hooray!

–Strides are being made in Florida too regarding including greyhounds under animal cruelty laws.

*The state of Arizona is still subsidizing dog racing because the dog tracks do not pay taxes on pari-mutuel earnings such as live handle racing or off-track-betting.

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According to this AP story, Rhode Island greyhound racing is closing for the year.

I would think May through October is the season so the fact that it’s closing now is good news — a portent of things to come — nobody wants to watch or bet on the killer “sport” of dogs racing to their death.

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