>There are no active licenced tracks in Scotland with the last remaining site, Shawfield in Rutherglen, hosting no races since 2020.
>However, one unlicenced operational greyhound track in Scotland located in Thornton, Fife remains in business.
Sounds like the first step is to ban unlicensed greyhound tracks.
It should also be known that new regulations on greyhound racing were introduced in 2020 and this year specifically targetting the welfare and retirement of the dogs. Before now, greyhounds that were no longer useful *might* be sent to be re-homed, but some are just killed or the kennels just find an excuse to put them down, like an extremely minor illness that the dog will recover from.
I make a comment like this on every greyhound racing post I come across. They are gentle creatures, sensitive and emotional. Ask anyone who has had experiences with different breeds and they’ll tell you the greyhound was the most sensitive of them all. Yeah, they’re fast, 45mph fast and the 4th fastest accelerating animal on earth, but they’re also lazy assholes who just want somewhere warm and comfy to sleep.
They’ve been around for ever, the only dog mentioned in the Bible, there’s Roman and Greek art of them, and the breed is basically unchanged since then. There is a painting from the 1600s that is indistinguishable from my greyhound today.
When being raced, they are treated like a commodity. Fed slop to simply fill them up, thrown together in pairs or groups to sleep in hay filled rooms, and discarded when their career is over (injury, failure, or worse – success – when they are so good they run for 4/5 years and leave the race track with PTSD and life long injuries). The cunts in charge of racing them throw them out after, if the dog is unlucky it’ll head to the Asian food markets and if it’s fortunate, it’ll be dropped at the door of a good greyhound charity.
If it means the end of the greyhound, so fucking be it. Last story that was posted here was the Scottish track who found traces of cocaine in every single dog. Why do we do this to horses too?
Much of what’s been said about greyhounds and how they are kept here is at best outdated and at worst deliberately, emotively wrong
I can only speak to the “licenced” tracks, but those dogs are “in the system” from the moment they arrive at a licensed kennels. They are drug tested on registration, randomly drug tested throughout their career and then go on to a rehoming centre when they retire. If they get an injury while racing they are patched up courtesy of something called the injury recovery scheme – one of the Birmingham-based tracks recently spent 9k on surgery at a specialist centre for a young dog who then went into residential rehab and was then rehomed. The percentage of pet dogs put to sleep because owners can’t afford the fix them means that you’re better off being an injured greyhound than an injured pet.
As for feeding on slops, you can’t feed an elite athlete shit and expect them to perform.
The dogs have mandatory vaccinations because they can’t race if they aren’t up to date with vaccines, which puts them significantly ahead of the general pet population.
Finally they are doing a job they love. They were bred to run, and they get to run. How often can the same be said about the average pet spaniel or labrador? It’s admirable that folk are concerned about dog welfare but why not target the true welfare crises first: puppy farming, indiscriminate breeding of suffering, flat-nosed dogs and obesity/untreated arthritis that condemns many pets to a lifetime of living in pain?
Edit: unable to spell either untreated or arthritis
I also support the phasing out of greyhound racing, but I strongly disagree with the idea that we should just do what the majority want all the time.
I mean I would think the main thing would be when they race is it a game for them or are they scared? I used to think for the longest time that horses actually enjoyed horse racing but it makes sense to me now that it’s fear fear driven and it’s stressful for the animal. If it’s stressful for them then it shouldn’t continue.
The animals well being should matter more
Why not regulate the industry lincenes for arenas and owners
Scotland have been making so much sense recently with their policy decisions. They are far in advance of England (my country) where it comes to their social responsibility and anti-cruelty thinking.
I’d like to see all sports that involve animals to be totally banned. Absolutely no exceptions.
Gteyhound racing is a business. If people want it ‘phased out’ then all they have to do is not be a customer.
I think if you asked the majority if you wanted animals to be used in sport they’d say no. Horse racing is more popular than dog racing but both are bizarre to me.
Anyone who isn’t a degenerate gambler would be fine with it being phased out.
It’s right up there with cockfighting.
Scotlandshire needs to cut the salt out of their porridge.
Tyranny of the majority. The majority of Scot’s don’t attend greyhound races and therefore it’s pretty easy for them to say they should be banned. I don’t particularly like going to shopping malls so I think they should be banned too.
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>There are no active licenced tracks in Scotland with the last remaining site, Shawfield in Rutherglen, hosting no races since 2020.
>However, one unlicenced operational greyhound track in Scotland located in Thornton, Fife remains in business.
Sounds like the first step is to ban unlicensed greyhound tracks.
It should also be known that new regulations on greyhound racing were introduced in 2020 and this year specifically targetting the welfare and retirement of the dogs. Before now, greyhounds that were no longer useful *might* be sent to be re-homed, but some are just killed or the kennels just find an excuse to put them down, like an extremely minor illness that the dog will recover from.
I make a comment like this on every greyhound racing post I come across. They are gentle creatures, sensitive and emotional. Ask anyone who has had experiences with different breeds and they’ll tell you the greyhound was the most sensitive of them all. Yeah, they’re fast, 45mph fast and the 4th fastest accelerating animal on earth, but they’re also lazy assholes who just want somewhere warm and comfy to sleep.
They’ve been around for ever, the only dog mentioned in the Bible, there’s Roman and Greek art of them, and the breed is basically unchanged since then. There is a painting from the 1600s that is indistinguishable from my greyhound today.
When being raced, they are treated like a commodity. Fed slop to simply fill them up, thrown together in pairs or groups to sleep in hay filled rooms, and discarded when their career is over (injury, failure, or worse – success – when they are so good they run for 4/5 years and leave the race track with PTSD and life long injuries). The cunts in charge of racing them throw them out after, if the dog is unlucky it’ll head to the Asian food markets and if it’s fortunate, it’ll be dropped at the door of a good greyhound charity.
If it means the end of the greyhound, so fucking be it. Last story that was posted here was the Scottish track who found traces of cocaine in every single dog. Why do we do this to horses too?
Much of what’s been said about greyhounds and how they are kept here is at best outdated and at worst deliberately, emotively wrong
I can only speak to the “licenced” tracks, but those dogs are “in the system” from the moment they arrive at a licensed kennels. They are drug tested on registration, randomly drug tested throughout their career and then go on to a rehoming centre when they retire. If they get an injury while racing they are patched up courtesy of something called the injury recovery scheme – one of the Birmingham-based tracks recently spent 9k on surgery at a specialist centre for a young dog who then went into residential rehab and was then rehomed. The percentage of pet dogs put to sleep because owners can’t afford the fix them means that you’re better off being an injured greyhound than an injured pet.
As for feeding on slops, you can’t feed an elite athlete shit and expect them to perform.
The dogs have mandatory vaccinations because they can’t race if they aren’t up to date with vaccines, which puts them significantly ahead of the general pet population.
Finally they are doing a job they love. They were bred to run, and they get to run. How often can the same be said about the average pet spaniel or labrador? It’s admirable that folk are concerned about dog welfare but why not target the true welfare crises first: puppy farming, indiscriminate breeding of suffering, flat-nosed dogs and obesity/untreated arthritis that condemns many pets to a lifetime of living in pain?
Edit: unable to spell either untreated or arthritis
I also support the phasing out of greyhound racing, but I strongly disagree with the idea that we should just do what the majority want all the time.
I mean I would think the main thing would be when they race is it a game for them or are they scared? I used to think for the longest time that horses actually enjoyed horse racing but it makes sense to me now that it’s fear fear driven and it’s stressful for the animal. If it’s stressful for them then it shouldn’t continue.
The animals well being should matter more
Why not regulate the industry lincenes for arenas and owners
Scotland have been making so much sense recently with their policy decisions. They are far in advance of England (my country) where it comes to their social responsibility and anti-cruelty thinking.
I’d like to see all sports that involve animals to be totally banned. Absolutely no exceptions.
Gteyhound racing is a business. If people want it ‘phased out’ then all they have to do is not be a customer.
I think if you asked the majority if you wanted animals to be used in sport they’d say no. Horse racing is more popular than dog racing but both are bizarre to me.
Anyone who isn’t a degenerate gambler would be fine with it being phased out.
It’s right up there with cockfighting.
Scotlandshire needs to cut the salt out of their porridge.
Tyranny of the majority. The majority of Scot’s don’t attend greyhound races and therefore it’s pretty easy for them to say they should be banned. I don’t particularly like going to shopping malls so I think they should be banned too.