Greyhounds are beautiful, intelligent animals.

Sadly, they are being exploited heavily by race track owners hoping to earn money at their expense. Greyhounds suffer from intense confinement, and thousands suffer from severe, oftentimes life threatening injuries each year.

It is heartbreaking to watch as these animals race down the track. They are treated as if they were machines, or objects to be used at a whim.

These are the same animals that we welcome into our homes as pets. What makes these greyhounds undeserving of compassion? Like the compassion we show the animals in our own homes? They surely are no different. If it were your dog, what would you say?

While many tracks argue they love the dogs and that they receive great care, remember one fact:
Why would anybody who loved dogs and regarded them with respect and compassion EVER make dogs participate in a "sport" where roughly 7,600 (based on a 2000 statistic) puppies are killed because they aren´t fast enough, where retired track racers are usually just killed or sold off to a research lab, or where animals are frequently found with steroids in their blood?

I for one will never be able to comprehend this. Greyhound racing needs to stop.

A quote from Grey2K´s website:
"We've seen this before ... a madman called Hitler was doing it, trying to create a superrace. Well, they're overbreeding, because they're trying to get superdogs. These dogs were not unhealthy, just slow."

-Baldwin County District Attorney David Whetstone, after an Alabama man admitted killing thousands of greyhounds for $10 each. New York Times, May 23, 2002

For more information:

http://www.grey2kusa.org/

http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/greyhound_racing/fact...

http://www.greyhoundracingsucks.com/index.htm

http://www.greyhounds.org/gpl/contents/entry.html

http://www.nogreyhoundracing.com/

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