Myth busting time! "Greyhounds love to race!" A total nonce perpetuated by low life grubs who love greyhounds to race!

Greyhounds may be fast dogs, but this doesn’t mean they’re happy in the racing business. In fact, many dogs live a life of deprivation in kennels – kept in pens or crates for up to 23 hours a day. Not to mention those who are injured and/or killed on the racetrack. Greyhounds love to RUN – not race. They also love to play, sleep, cuddle and be loved for who they are – just like any other dog.

The greyhounds who do make it to the race track are put at significant risk of sustaining serious injuries, such as broken bones, hocks and legs, or head trauma, during training and racing. Up to 200 dogs are reported as seriously injured during official races each week. That does not include the many hundreds that sustain unreported "minor" injuries such as torn muscles, cuts and bruisers. Some greyhounds even die from cardiac arrest due to the extreme physical intensity of racing. On many occasions the injuries are 'uneconomical' to treat and the owner will instead have the dog killed. On average around 5 dogs are killed at official races each week as a result of greyhound racing.

I agree with you, Paul.
I cannot see how greyhound racing can continue given the current revelations, nor should it; the cruelty is endemic.

Welcome aboard Is Mise, good to see we can agree on something. Fortunately I believe greyhound racing is in its death throes in Australia, as it is in the US where its illegal in 39 states, more than half the tracks there have closed in the past decade. It's only the die-hard's fighting a rear guard action that keep it going here, like so many poor greyhounds, the game needs to be put out of its misery, the sooner the better.
The business likes to falsely present an image that those involved are all wonderful people who believe the welfare of the dogs in their care is paramount. There is never any mention of the likes of Zeke Kadir who faces a total of 29 charges including 11 of serious animal cruelty and 13 of using an animal as a lure to blood a greyhound.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-01/greyhound-trainers-face-more-than-50-animal-cruelty-charges/6587870

Hi there IS MISE & PAUL1405...

Unfortunately there are no such words to be found within our vocabulary like; cruelty, corruption and ethics, whenever human greed, and filthy lucre seeks to transcend us all ? There's nothing fundamentally wrong with dog racing, as long as the rules are strictly mandated and punctiliously enforced !

If we are sincere in stamping out human cruelty to animals we would have to become vegetarians and no longer raise animals to eat them. We would not prevent mozzies from getting a bit of our blood. We would not keep dogs and cats as pets. In so doing, we harbour creatures that prey on the wildlife around them. We would not use antibiotics as those medicines stamp out untold lives of microscopic creatures. We would live in close quarters as one of the chief contributors to the elimination of wildlife is the destruction of habitat. In fact, due consideration of our destructiveness to other species would entail our elimination. However, there are many parasites and microbes that have evolved to be dependent on us as hosts and would become extinct along with us. Our vast herds of sheep and cattle would starve or become prey. What a dilemma. To be or not to be.

Dear Paul,

I agree that there is a problem and I believe that greyhound racing, along with the ensuing treatment of "slow" greyhounds, is sinful - one sin among so many that are indeed prevalent in society.

But who is to decide what is sinful? Myself? Runner? Perhaps the United-Nations (which deliberately withdrew out of Rwanda in order to allow the genocide there)?

Of all wise men and women in the land, you seem to suggest that it be the task of government to decide on matters of good and evil - those very corrupt people which unashamedly control that same violent body that was born in sin, the state.

By entrusting moral authority with these people, only because they may happen to agree with you (and me) in this one instance concerning greyhounds, you make a big mistake. Today it is greyhounds - but tomorrow it may be something else, perhaps one of the things that is most personally dear to you which they are going to ban, something you cannot live without or do not consider life worth living without. What will you say then? That they are moral and wise enough to decide on the matter of greyhounds, but not so on the matter that is so dear to yourself?

Nay, such matters, condemned as they should be, should be left in the social arena, rather than the criminal. I do recommend that decent people do not befriend or deal with those who are involved with greyhound racing. This could include not selling or buying anything to/from them, not employing them, not saving them when their house burns down, not allowing your children to play with theirs, not allowing your daughter to marry in their family, etc. Unlike the brutality of the state, this kind of popular pressure is moral and welcome.