The work is just beginning. We now have to find homes for 3,700 of these gentle dogs and are reaching out to animal lovers through bona-fide greyhound rescues across the United States and around the world.
DANIEL GUSS: ‘Floridians made it perfectly clear that they wanted to end the cruel and exploitive “sport” of greyhound racing by passing their Amendment 13 with nearly 69% of the vote last week. While victory has a thousand fathers, Chris DeRose of Last Chance for Animals, a leading voice in the ongoing fight against animal cruelty, says that the greyhounds’ champion in this instance is not a man, but an Arlington, Massachusetts, attorney named Christine Dorchak, President and General Counsel of Grey2KUSA.
Dorchak, who championed, and authored the wording of, the Sunshine State’s Amendment 13, says that the work is just beginning. Having fought for the dogs’ freedom from the abusiveness of the gambling-fueled dog racing industry and profiteering greyhound breeders, she says “we now have to find homes for 3,700 of these gentle dogs and are reaching out to animal lovers through bona-fide greyhound rescues across the United States and around the world”…
Dorchak, a self-described dog lawyer, says that she wrote into the Amendment that the cost of the care for the dogs – one of whom dies every few days – is paid for by those who are now forced to let them live freely. “Each dog has been identified and their welfare is now closely monitored by humane advocates and pari-mutuel authorities until they are settled on comfortable couches and dog beds in the homes of adopting dog lovers.” But the clock is ticking; her organization now has just two years to make that dream a reality’. SOURCE…
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