Good news: Today (December 31, 2007) is the last time greyhounds will have to run for their lives around the dog track in Corpus Christi. Hopefully, that saves the lives of a few thousand greyhounds who won’t be overbred just to make a buck.

According to the article, the Corpus Christi dog track was facing financial losses of $3.5 million a year. That oughta send a message to the powers the be that the cruel blood sport of greyhound racing is no longer entertaining to the masses.

The article says that the track still has 70 dogs that need homes and will feed them until adoptions are made. We hope that is truly the case. We hope the dogs don’t disappear like dogs do in Tucson.

Imagine a track closing because of financial woes. It appears that Texas is far superior than Arizona where the greyhound racing tracks not only get away with murder but also not paying any state taxes.

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Not only is greyhound racing a dying sport, but it’s also so waning that many greyhound tracks have closed this year.  We hope Tucson Greyhound Park (TGP) closes in 2008.

When a track closes it means that they were losing money as people don’t know how to handicap the dogs and rather go to glitzy indian gaming casinos. Also the people who used to go to the greyhound race tracks are dying off and the younger generations have grown up watching Animal Planet and are hip to the greyhound abuse that prevails.

The latest greyhound race track to close was Cloverleaf in Loveland, Colo., on December 4.

And the Corpus Christi greyhound race track will close on December 31.

We hope that both tracks will take responsibility finding adoptive homes for these deserving hounds.

Click here to read the specifics.

http://www.greyhoundnetworknews.org/Breaking%20news%201207.htm

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