Cases Of Greyhound Abuse

I recently received an email from a young woman who had read my blog and felt inspired to help the greyhound cause. She had attached an article that she had written but had never been able to publish because her family works in the greyhound industry in the USA. She asked to remain anonymous butalso requested that I published her take on the greyhound industry. Here is her article for all to read:

There is nothing quite as sick as someone who is an abuser of a human or an innocent animal. Unfortunately, there are some sickos 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 for 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. 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 these 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 need death, unconcious of kidney failure. All of these dogs were 20 to 25 pounds underweight and were starving to death. Its really sad when you can’t trust a race track who is suppose to care for these greyhound welfare.

However it’s not just the tracks that abuse these dogs, private owners abuse them too. Why on earth they would adopt a wonderful greyhound just to abuse them does not make sense. It is sick to think people could cause such cruelty to the greyhound. Even in a home, people beat there dogs or starve them. It makes you wonder what kind of a world we must live in where people find it necissary to abuse animals, especially the lovable greyhound.

Such cruelty should be prevented for the sake of these greyhounds. Do the part you know you should. If you suspect someone of abusing a greyhound, please report it. Greyhounds are loving, affectionate dogs who do not deserve this kind of treatment so take a stand. No more dogs need to die, help make sure they don’t.