No. But dogs are to be kept off a leash and some of them will chase other animals.
Coordinated dog hunting as a sport is unnecessary as it only serves human gratification.
I’d be more than skeptical about the ‘vet on duty’ line. How often have you heard of a vet being called up before their disciplinary council? They know what side their bread is buttered. They’re obviously turning a blind eye to the puppy farm horrors as well, signing off on laughable ‘ inspections’.
Does a greyhound not have to be registered with the Irish Coursing Board or whatever it’s called in order to be able to race?
You’re showing your ignorance of the greyhound game. A vet HAS to be in attendance or the racing cannot go ahead.
First inspections of litters is carried out by Control Stewards, who are highly qualified professionals. If they feel all isn’t right in an establishment, they act.
You missed my point. I’m saying the vets are not going to rock the boat.There’s a whole lot they turn a blind eye to, including the disgusting puppy farm industry.
Who are the Control Stewart’s employed by and what qualifications do they have?
Are you going to answer this? Coursing and greyhound racing are joined at the hip.A dog can’t race unless it’s registered with the Irish Coursing Board.
Please report this to the greyhound careline - 061 448100. It's confidential. The greyhound industry is highly regulated and legal proceedings can be enacted if required.
Yes. The Greyhound Stud Book (the registration of all greyhounds on the island of Ireland) is kept by the Irish Coursing Club.
The new super responsible, caring, IGB who allowed thousands of Greyhounds to be killed & abused for donkey's years. Of course we can rely on them. They have suddenly decided to care, only because they got found out.
Then there are the owners who ignored or conveniently turned a blind eye that now claim to be so caring.
The dogs suffering at this mans hands need to be rescued. Action is needed. Greyhound abuse needs to end entirely.
If anyone knows other ways to report greyhound welfare abuses please share.
On a lighter note, top class talent on display at Shelbourne this weekend.
What have illegal puppy farms got to do with greyhound racing? Greyhounds are the most regulated dogs in the country. Vets wouldn’t have much to do with this regulating. Control Stewards, who have degrees in agriculture, veterinary science etc., would be more visible as they are the ones visiting premises where greyhounds are bred, sometimes doing spot checks outside of their 12 week marking and microchipping visits. They also ensure that all breeding stock has their DNA stored. Vets only come on the scene in cases of emergency, illness, accidents, cesarean sections etc.
Yes, the Irish Coursing Club looks after the Stud Book. Coursing activities themselves are funded by the individual clubs.
They were lucky. A lot of breeders dont waste ammo on the dogs. They just drown the puppies in a big bucket.
You bet, they die
After spending the best part of €2,500 to produce a litter of greyhound pups, why would they just kill them? The stupidity of your post beggars belief!
From false premeses you can draw any conclusion. Do you honestly believe that the psychopathic greyhound breeder described paid anything? He was OK with committing crimes
If the psychopathic greyhound breeder cared more for money than his animals, why take it home, waste a bullet on it and have the bother of disposing of the body, when he could simply have allowed the track vet euthanise it and dispose of the body at no cost to the owner?
Because the vet might want to wonder about whether the dog was registered, might've had comments on its health. Are you saying if I rock up to a track, I can bring a greyhound in and ask the vet to put it down? For free? No questions asked?
I'd put nothing past the greyhound industry in Ireland but this seems pretty irresponsible by them if true.
If it happened in a race, of course the dog was registered.
We’re talking about dogs injured in races, which is what the poster claimed. I’m simply clarifying the situation on the ground.
Vets and Control Stewards have had reason to withdraw a dog from racing. eg: Every dog is weighed in before racing and if it’s 3 pounds above or below the last recorded weight on its card it cannot run.
That's really helpful, lucid, imaginative and constructive, thanks.
Greyhounds can rest easy, safe in the knowledge that the sharpest intellects are looking out for their welfare.
And what percentage of those puppies would go on to race ?
What would happen to the ones that aren't good enough ?
Well they can't do a worse job than the IGB who have been responsible for killing thousands of Greyhounds.
Pretty much all of them. There are over 36 different grades over different distances, so plenty for all abilities.
And what happens them all when they are no longer “economically viable” and are progressing towards “ever decreasing diminishing returns” on the owners original “outlay”- hmmmm? What relevance do those “36 different grades” have then?
The only people in the greyhound game to make money are the public trainers and the staff of the greyhound board who are in full time employment. Us owners don’t expect to make much of a return on our outlay. It’s our hobby
Regarding ex racers, the Greyhound Board has its own rehoming centre and subsidises a number of animal shelters to rehome ex racers. Personally, I keep my retirees here at home, same as all my friends. This is one of the reasons the report that the RTÉ Investigates programme was based on wasn’t published. Our greyhounds were included in the missing, when in fact, they live out their lives on my living room couch or outside in a comfy kennel.
If all the "missing" were relaxing in luxury on owner's couches we would be knee deep in Greyhounds. Dogs have been going missing for donkey's years so where are they ? How often do you see someone out with their pet greyhound ?
Another reason for non publication was that it said this:
It said on average an estimated 5,987 greyhounds, which were available to race, were culled each year.
The reasons for the cull were broken down as follows - "those who failed to produce qualifying times" (2,673); "failure to produce desired entry level times" (1,989) and an "unacceptable decline in performance" (1,326).
As usual its out with the anecdotes about greyhounds on sofas. Anything to say about the 5,987 greyhounds who arent on sofas and got killed for not being fast enough? And why do you support an activity that engages in such animal cruelty like this?
That's not true about Greyhounds being unaccounted for. How come Greyhounds still registered to Ireland are showing up in Pakistan then? Or registered as being rehomed as a Pet in Tipperary when they are sold off for coursing in Pakistan. And GRI refusing to release information under the FOI until they were forced to. Some rehoming program that is.
Ban Bloodsports page updated on this topic in December 2021.
Another Irish greyhound has ended up in Pakistan, a country condemned for its appalling treatment of animals.
Despite being 6,500 kilometres away in the Asian country, the Greyhound Racing Ireland website is continuing to list 2-year-old Bexhill Marie as Irish-owned.
However, Rajpur Coursing Club in Pakistan revealed this month that a greyhound named "Bexhill Marie" is now being used in coursing in the Asian country.
In a Facebook post, it reported that “Bexhill Marie wins third position in the imported section” of a coursing meeting on 3 December 2021, adding that the the greyhound is owned by “Malik Ali” of the Challianwalla Kennels in Pakistan.
Bexhill Marie was among the dogs listed for use at a coursing meeting in Glin, County Limerick in October 2020.
This is not the first Irish greyhound to be used at Rajpur Coursing Club. Previously, a greyhound named Granard Swift was identified as one of the dogs exported for use in the bloodsport.
The Irish Coursing Club is continuing to claim on its website that the greyhound was “Rehomed-As-Pet” in Tipperary but, as highlighted by the Mail on Sunday in January, Granard Swift was not rehomed but actually “bought by a purchaser with a U.S. address, shipped to the UK, and then transported on to the Rajpur Coursing Club in Pakistan”.
The 4-year-old greyhound is one of hundreds of Irish greyhounds shamefully exported to Pakistan.
In his Mail on Sunday article, journalist Ken Foxe outlined that Greyhound Racing Ireland (GRI) had initially refused to release a related internal report under Freedom of Information and “did so only after an internal review was sought". See documents at https://www.thestory.ie/.../official-report-into-how.../
Addressing the fact that the greyhound had also been listed on its website as “rehomed as pet”, Greyhound Racing Ireland said that a “transfer of ownership” form was received by the Irish Coursing Club on 29 May 2020 and “rather than a transfer to a new owner, the transfer was classified as ‘rehomed as pet’ on the ICC system in November 2020” and this then appeared on the GRI website through a direct feed.
But Granard Swift was neither rehomed nor retired as a pet. Instead she was sold to a Mr Mohsin Noon, described by Greyhound Racing Ireland as “the major party involved with the Rajpur Coursing Club in Pakistan”. It acknowledged that the individual in Ireland who sold/transported the greyhound “was aware that Mr Noon was purchasing the greyhound for coursing purposes in Pakistan and that the greyhound would spend its time in Pakistan during her coursing career there.”
Thanks so much for posting all that. Have to publicise as much as possible.
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