segunda-feira, 3 de janeiro de 2011

Cruelty all over the world

United States
 
The number of greyhounds killed every year in the United States ranges from 30 to 50 000. 50% of dogs are killed before they ever reach the slopes. About 100,000 rabbits and other small animals are used as bait in training the Greyhounds, who are encouraged to pursue them and kill them. The less aggressive dogs are locked in a cage with one of these little animals and are just released or fed after killing the prey. According to the article "Running not to die" published in The Animals Agenda, May 1986, "it is estimated that at least 90% of Greyhounds coaches believe that the use of live bait is necessary to teach their pets to chase a mechanical lure , because they believe this way will have better performance. " In the United States, many kennels have cages stacked on two floors, with females generally at a higher level, and males below. Many dogs spend their entire lives locked up in these kennels. Greyhounds as often compete in several different tracks during his career, they are transported from one to another canódromo huddled in vans or trailers aluminum airless. The transport over long distances in poor conditions often cause dehydration, weight loss, exhaustion and even death.
Britain
Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) is supposedly a nation of animal lovers. Most households have a pet and more than a quarter of them have a dog. However, the fate of greyhounds who participate in racing is extremely cruel. A dog has a life expectancy of 14 years or more, but a Greyhound racing does not live more than five years. Only a lucky minority able replacement in homes at the end of his career. Most, however, is killed in the first years of his life and it is estimated that 12,000 greyhounds suffer this fate every year. For many the end means death in a slaughterhouse dirty with a shot in the head by a mere 10 pounds. The animals that tend to give excessive profits to developers and end their day punters murdered and dumped in the bush. According to the official policy of the National Greyhound Racing Club (NGRC), dogs must be placed in homes at the end of his career, but only 3,000 of the 10,000 officers used clues in the UK every year can find a home. However, the NGRC takes no position on the slaughter of healthy Greyhounds and is proud of this activity, which is the second largest sports event and generates billions of pounds in bets.
 
Ireland
 
Greyhounds in Ireland are raised in mass and can not be adopted to the same extent. Reports of cruelty are diverse, they are found in large numbers abandoned on the streets, subjected to torture and maltreatment. The adoption centers are full of greyhounds waiting for homes. Even recently found Greyhounds (some alive, some not) with mutilated ears so that the owners were not identified because of the chip. In the news, find subjects such as children aged 10 to 12 years torturing a Greyhound abandoned, and children 7 to 8 years betting on races. In 2006 it was reported the case of a music store that sold tambourines made with skin Greyhounds. Greyhounds also are designed to be exported to various countries to be used in the supposed "sport". The transport conditions are atrocious and after a short career in these countries, dogs still suffer abandonment, torture and death. The RSPCA - British Association Protective Cruelty to Animals released a report on 21/07/2004, reporting that 36 Greyhounds were exported from Ireland for sale in Barcelona. The dogs arrived thirsty, hungry and battered after a trip where they remained caged for over 30 hours in poor conditions. The dogs did a 1200 km path to the final destination - Spain, divided into 20 tiny cages where they could hardly stand, traveling by rail and then by trucks muggy, with temperatures reaching 40 degrees. Unfortunately this was not an isolated case. The canódromo Barcelona was closed in 2006 and the Greyhounds Irish (as well as Spanish), were at the mercy of fate. In the shelters in Spain may be found Irish Greyhounds waiting for adoption, and there have been a case of them survived despite serious injuries due to hanging.
 
From Australia to Asia
 
The racing industry in Australian Greyhounds imposes a sad end to their dogs: they end their days in laboratories for vivisection or are exported to countries like Korea, Vietnam and China, with plans to create race tracks throughout Cambodia and the Philippines. These countries are notorious for the barbaric acts of torture and killing dogs for human consumption, where there is no hope or possibility of a donation or replacement for retired Greyhounds. The fate of Australian greyhounds in Asia is inhumane and, as widely exposed by the media, these wonderful dogs are ending their days being exterminated by the industry of dog meat, or simply being dumped into landfill. Like all dogs, Greyhounds deserve to be protected. Until the stakes races are banned, the dogs continue to face the sad fate that awaits them: oblivion, abandonment and death. It's time to say "enough"! Please join your voice to the growing chorus of people who believe it is wrong to treat the Greyhounds so cruel.

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