It has been well known for a long time now that those engaged in the so called sport of greyhound racing indulge in animal cruelty on a massive scale. The full extent of this disgusting cruelty has only this week been publicly revealed at the NSW inquiry into greyhound racing, the revelations are shocking. It has been said that as many as 17,000 greyhounds are killed in Australia each year for no other reason than they are considered too slow for the track, this represents up to 96% of greyhounds born each year/. Just as shocking is the revelation that 9 out of 10 trainers are using, or have used live animals such as rabbits, possums and piglets to blood their dogs!
To compound the criminality of the business is the claim that the controlling bodies of greyhound racing in Australia such as Greyhound Racing NSW has been complicit in hiding the extent of the crime. These industry regulators (insiders), whilst publicly claiming “animal welfare” is paramount to them, have been exposed for what they are, people who engage in secretiveness in an attempt to hide the unspeakable acts of cruelty which the majority of the business employs.
Enough is enough, and hopefully government will act shortly to stamp out what is a blight on society, and that’s all greyhound racing is, a disgusting blight

So you want to join with these despicable greyhound trainers killing spree and kill off the other 20,000 odd greyhounds left.
Seems a bit odd to me.
Oh oh they kill lots of dogs every year so lets stop the cruelty and kill them all?
Sounds like those seppoes in Vietnam. We had to destroy their town to save it.

Dont ban it fix it.

Is the business fixable, or is it simply beyond repair. How many chances should greyhound racing be given to self repair. The forced sale of dog tracks alone would net enough cash to keep the 20,000 unwanted surviving dogs in the lap of luxury.
Complicit in all this is all of us who have benefited from the gambling dollars this and other forms of animal racing has generated.

Oh god, Paul has found another mob he can act as dictate to, & try to enforce his opinions upon. I wonder how much exaggeration there is in his figures. Could it be 50%? Being a greenie, it is more likely 90%.

The one thing you have to give greenies, they don't ever let facts or truth get in the way of good propaganda, & the chance to force their ideas on others.

The greyhound industry is having a major push to find homes for slow greyhounds. Try doing something real for a change Paul, & adopt a few. A mate of mine did, his problem is they love to run & to chase, & there is not much opportunity for that in the city. He brought his out here for a run in some open space.

The only problem was the mob of roos down in the river paddock. They were mostly hidden in the very long grass, but when one started hopping, the chase instinct fired, & it was hard to believe this greyhound was slow.

They are not interested in catching if well fed, it is the chase they enjoy. Each time it almost caught up to one, it switched target to another. A whippet pet we had was the same, not interested in catching anything but snakes. Watch out greenies!

If the man from snowy river's horse could scarcely raise a trot he must have been a piker. This greyhound could scarcely raise a walk. Still he'd had fun, & the roos appeared to be laughing at him, as they watched him helped into the ute.

I am totally disinterested in greyhound racing, or horse racing for that matter, but not as much as I am in these inner city would be dictators trying to force their will on everyone.

This looks like another greenie led knee jerk response, similar to Juliar's infamous stopping of the live cattle trade to Indonesia, causing massive damage to the relationship, to farmers in Aus and to poorer Indonesians whose food price jumped.

If something is broken you fix it. If someone breaks the law you fine or jail them, collective punishment is something that went out with communism.

G'day there HASBEEN & PAUL1405...

Strange as it may seem I support two opposing views here, that of PAUL1405's and HASBEEN'S ?

I come to the subject from an entirely different position, that of cruelty and endemic corruption. That said, if the authorities could only clean up the industry...absolutely, AND get rid of all the crooks that regularly permeate Greyhound tracks ? I think a lot of the 'live baiting' that continues to flourish unabated, may well be a thing of the past ?

I've spent many a night (on duty) at Harold Park Dogs over the years, and a colleague of mine once remarked '...there were as many crooks present there, as there are at 'The Bay'...' ! Never a truer word spoken ? For some inexplicable reason, Dog racing seems to attract the Sydney criminal element more so than either the Trots or traditional Horse racing ? Why I have no idea.

It does need an exhaustive, even a 'massive' clean-out at all levels, including the Administration. Will it happen, of course not ! No doubt there'll be a few cosmetic changes, some mild sabre rattling, a lot of meetings, and a lot of talk. However in 15 or 20 years hence, we'll all be calling (again) for more stringent action to take place once more, all for exactly the same reason, cruelty and corruption within the industry ?