Animal Justice Party MP Emma Hurst has described the greyhound industry as: 'Government sanctioned animal cruelty. Greyhound racing is a cruel industry built on the backs of thousands of suffering animals'
CHARIS CHANG: ‘Troubling analysis just released has raised questions about Australia’s missing greyhounds, with animal rights groups estimating more than 4000 dogs a year have disappeared just in Australia’s NSW. The Coalition for the Protection of Greyhounds believes thousands of greyhounds are still being killed every year.
A previous report from the Special Commission of Inquiry into the Greyhound Racing Industry in NSW highlighted the number of missing dogs could be as high as 80,721 over 12 years. But since the report was released in 2016, dogs have continued to disappear, according to the Coalition for the Protection of Greyhounds.
The coalition estimates about 4000 greyhounds were unaccounted-for in 2017/18 and a similar amount in 2018/19. “Nothing has changed,” Coalition vice president Dennis Anderson told news.com.au. “The business model of the greyhound racing industry relies upon killing the dogs that are no longer profitable,” he said. “It’s appalling, it’s absolutely appalling”…
Mr Anderson said confidential documents suggested about 40 per cent of greyhounds weren’t fast enough for the racetrack so of the 4415 greyhounds born in 2015/16, and 3056 in 2016/17, more than 1000 dogs each year should have been adopted. Added to this should be the greyhounds that were retired.
Assuming they were retired after four years, the coalition believes about 4000 dogs should have been retired bringing the total number of greyhounds available for adoption in 2017/18 to 5810 dogs, and 5605 in 2018/19. Yet only 1810 were rehomed in 2017/18 by Greyhound Adoption Program NSW and other private rehomers, according to the Greyhound Racing NSW 2018 Annual Report. “This leaves 4000 unaccounted-for. Where are they?” Mr Anderson said…
Animal Justice Party MP Emma Hurst has described the greyhound industry as “government sanctioned animal cruelty”. “Greyhound racing is a cruel industry built on the backs of thousands of suffering animals,” Ms Hurst said. “Over the past year the Greyhound Welfare and Integrity Commission has reported over 1300 greyhounds have been injured on the racetrack. That is almost 20 per cent of all dogs who make it to race. “The reality is this number is likely even higher”.’ SOURCE…
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