Stop Greyhound Slaughter Cause On MySpace

I've mentioned the Facebook cause I am involved with, Stop The Greyhound Slaughter, before on here. I am extremely pleased to announce that we now have over 900 members. A huge thank you to each and every one of them!

I am even more pleased to announce that the cause is now available on MySpace as well so you can now join if you have a MySpace profile instead of a Facebook one. You can join or take a look via this link. I believe you have to click on the "About Causes On MySpace" button at the bottom to join. The link to the petition is also on the homepage so please take the time to sign it, anonymously or otherwise, if you get a moment.

Thanks again, and keep up the good work!

Sick And Disgusting Greyhound Abuse

There is nothing quite as sick as someone who is an abuser of a human or an innocent animal. Unfortunately, there are some people (and I use that term loosely) out there who do abuse animals - even sweet, lovable greyhound dogs. Greyhound abuse is a serious matter and if you detect someone is abusing them, you’d be wise to report it.

Sometimes greyhound abuse can be difficult to detect, especially if they are racing dogs at a track and you are just a spectator. However, if you have any affiliation with a dog track, you should be able to investigate greyhound abuse. The majority of owners and trainers that do love their dogs will support you in this matter because they are not all bad. Unfortunately, there are those that do.

According to Greyhounds.com, many of these wonderful greyhound racing dogs have been abused and mistreated. One track in Alabama gave 40 greyhounds away for medical experimentation. When the greyhounds were found, only 20 percent had survived - that’s only 8 dogs! If you think that is bad, there are many many more cases just like this one that show abuse and neglect of the animal. In another case a group of greyhounds were deprived of food and water. By the time a medical team could see them, one was near death via kidney failure. All of these dogs were 20 to 25 pounds underweight and were starving to death. Such cruelty should most definitely be procecuted. It is a fact that greyhounds have the lowest life expectancy amongst any other breed of dog, and this is not because of natural causes!

Greyhounds are loving, affectionate dogs who do not deserve this kind of treatment so take a stand. You can sign the petition feature in the left sidebar to stop abuse and cruelty to these loving animals. No more dogs need to die, so help make sure they don’t.

BREAKING NEWS: The Slaughter Of Healthy Greyhounds

This post is for all of those of you out there that refuse to believe that healthy greyhounds are slaughtered every year for no apparent reason. For those who dismiss my blog as filled with lies. And for those of you that need a little motivation to add your voice to mine and the people that have already joined the fight against these murderers.

Daniel Foggo is a renowned journalist in the UK. He broke the story about the slaughter house for greyhounds up North last year and exposed the guy who ran it for what he was. That man has since been jailed. Now Foggo has a different story to tell, which is just as alarming and outraging.

The Essex Greyhoud Clinic, which is nown for its treatment of greyhounds in the UK, apparently destroys healthy greyhounds for no other reason than they can make £30 per greyhound body part by selling the corpses to the Royal Veterinary Clinic, one of the oldest and most prestigious colleges in the country. This is not old and ill greyhounds we are talking about. This is not those dogs that have cancer or another serious problem so that we should put them out of their misery. No, it is PERFECTLY HEALTHY YOUNG DOGS that still have a lot to give.

Perfectly healthy greyhounds being killed for body parts is a common practice in the Far East but I never thought that I'd read anything this disturbing about the UK. I knew greyhound slaughter occurred but not for profit. This most definitely constitutes murder, don't you think?!

The RSPCA released this comment after the story broke:

“We are shocked by this evidence which appears to show an opening for greyhounds to be systematically destroyed for profit. We certainly would not like to think that there was a financial incentive to ending a pet’s life.”

You can read the full story at this Times Online link. Please then return to this site to sign the petition linked on the right sidebar and add your voice to the struggle against these people. Unfortunately, money talks but then so do we and we speak long enough and loud enough maybe someone will listen. One day, they will have to.