{"id":754959,"date":"2018-10-12T08:52:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T12:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=754959"},"modified":"2018-10-12T08:52:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T12:52:46","slug":"expose-reveals-sick-injured-stressed-greyhounds-imprisoned-and-bled-repeatedly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=754959","title":{"rendered":"Expos\u00e9 Reveals Sick, Injured, Stressed Greyhounds Imprisoned and Bled Repeatedly"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>Hemopet is registered as a nonprofit even as it rakes in the cash from the blood of the dogs it claims to 'rescue'. This means the donations the company collects to keep dogs in barren enclosures are tax-deductible.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PETA:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;An eyewitness investigation of Hemopet \u2014 a canine blood \u201cbank\u201d in Garden Grove, California\u2014 found that this so-called \u201crescue\u201d warehouses approximately 200 greyhounds bred for and discarded by the racing industry in tiny crates and barren kennels for about 23 hours out of every day \u2014 even when they were sick or injured in fights with stressed kennelmates \u2014 and boasts that it sells their blood to over 2,000 veterinary clinics in North America and Asia&#8230; Hemopet kept many of the greyhounds in barren, rusty kennels. Others were locked in crates so small that they could barely turn around or even stand up or stretch, and could hardly even see any other dogs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>These greyhounds \u2014 who, like all dogs, were eager to run and play and longed for companionship \u2014 were taken out of their cages only to be bled, walked briefly, or put into barren concrete-floored pens for a few minutes. Dr. Emma Milne, a veterinarian who reviewed the footage, said, \u201cThe length of time they are spending in the cages is completely unacceptable, especially given the size and nature of the cages. Dogs are social animals with complex behavioural and social needs. These welfare needs are not being met at all in this environment\u201d&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>All this and more takes place at a business founded by Jean Dodds, who\u2014although referring to herself as the benign \u201cgrandmother of blood-banking for animals\u201d\u2014once worked on an experiment in which cobra venom was injected into guinea pigs. Despite taking in over $1 million in blood product sales in 2016 alone from the dogs it obtains and bleeds, Hemopet keeps dogs in these substandard, desolate conditions&#8230; And believe it or not, Hemopet is registered as a nonprofit even as it rakes in the cash from the blood of the dogs it claims to \u201crescue.\u201d This means the donations the company collects to keep dogs in barren enclosures are tax-deductible&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/investigations.peta.org\/hemopet-greyhounds-expose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g2j8_Brxk_s?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETA: &#8216;An eyewitness investigation of Hemopet \u2014 a canine blood \u201cbank\u201d in Garden Grove, California\u2014 found that this so-called \u201crescue\u201d warehouses approximately 200 greyhounds bred for and discarded by the racing industry in tiny crates and barren kennels for about 23 hours out of every day \u2014 even when they were sick or injured in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,24,25],"tags":[27,30,35],"class_list":["post-754959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice","category-science","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754961,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754959\/revisions\/754961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/754960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}