Only 10 days to go!
23.02.09
The countdown has started for the Sighthound Welfare Trust Spring Auction in aid of Greyhounds Galore – commencing on March 5th and running for one week only.
Greyhounds Galore are a small voluntary group who have been under extreme pressure recently, having to fund the re-homing for 11 greyhounds which recently came into their care - all within the space of 4 weeks!
In mid December Greyhounds Galore were contacted by a supporter in the north who was very concerned for the health of dogs in their local pound and sympathetically, GG agreed to take 3 greyhounds to help the situation.
The day before Christmas Eve, 4 greyhounds were due to be euthanased at a local vets and GG immediately made arrangements for them to go into private boarding kennels.
Less than 3 weeks later GG were alerted to yet another 3 greyhounds due to be euthanased and without question, GG squeezed them in along with another abandoned greyhound from the local dog pound and all 4 greyhounds are now safe in private boarding.
Please try your best to donate items to the auction and support the excellent work of Greyhounds Galore who work tirelessly to rescue and re-home as many sighthounds as possible.
Details of how to donate items to the auction can be seen here
http://www.sighthounds.org.uk/newsdetail.php?ne_id=31
Please click here to see the gorgeous hounds in need of loving homes and for an insight into the wonderful work of Greyhounds Galore. http://www.greyhoundsgalore.org.uk/Welcome.html
Many thanks as always for your continued support
Will the industry ever take responsibility for their stray greyhounds?
14.02.09
Debra Rothery, founder of Tia Greyhound and Lurcher Rescue has decided – quite rightly - stray greyhounds coming into Tia’s care are the financial responsibility of the racing industry because of the industry's failure to enforce Rule 18 - ‘Responsibility of Ownership’ .
Rule 18 sets out specific measures enabling the monitoring of a greyhound’s whereabouts to ensure their welfare in either racing or retirement and a Change of Ownership notification must be submitted within 28 days of such.
However, many owners and trainers contravene the rule - do not submit the notification - and readily take the cheapest option by either giving dogs away, abandoning or destroying them, encouraged by the industry’s failure to monitor and enforce the rule.
Debra has said ‘In an ideal world the racing industry would pick up after itself, but as we all know it isn't, and it is down to you decent folk to foot the bill'
'The racing industry as of 1st January 2009, in an attempt to sort itself out, has got rid of the old structure and has launched the new GBGB – Greyhound Board of Great Britain. So I have thought that with this new start, they may wish to do the right thing and pay for the basic requirements of the stray greyhounds that come into our care’
‘We have over 80 dogs here at the moment, various reasons and stories to tell, but the strays can't tell us anything other than they ended up in a stray kennel. We have 21 strays here at the moment'
'I will bill them every month. I won't hold my breath’.
Please click here to view Tia's invoice
Greyt Exploitation’s agree wholeheartedly with Tia’s demands in that the independent greyhound re-homing groups are entitled to financial compensation for the industry’s failure to monitor and enforce responsible ownership which results in many greyhounds being abandoned or given away without neutering or home checks.
http://www.dogmagazine.net:80/archives/727/greyhound-homing-scandal/
Just as alarmingly, many trainers have healthy greyhounds killed - once they are deemed too slow or old - rather than invest in the time or expense of kennelling and caring for a greyhound until a retirement home can be found.
http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives/1725/outrage-as-healthy-dogs-are-put-to-sleep/
Constantly independent re-homing groups are subjected to emotional blackmail and financially burdened – having little option but to take in strays and save greyhounds from a lethal injection - thereby subsidising those who finance and ultimately control greyhound racing - the multi billion pound gambling industry.
We would urge all independent greyhound rescue groups to add details of stray greyhounds or those saved from a lethal injection to Tia’s Wall of Shame, so the extent of the industry’s lack of regulation and duty of care towards greyhounds can be fully addressed.
Please email debra.rothery@btinternet.com (copy and paste) or Greyt Exploitations with details of greyhounds ~ many thanks in anticipation for your support and of course giving the greyhounds a voice.
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