The horrors of the catching pen
by Julia Cockram, animal behaviour consultant, CPG In Australia, greyhounds are stopped from catching the lure at the end of a race by being funnelled into a catching pen while the lure continues around the track. This leads to hyper-aroused greyhounds slowing from speeds of around 80 km/h and intensely frustrated from not being allowed […]
“Circle racing is back!” And greyhounds suffer
The latest track to have a “safety upgrade” paid by taxpayer money has resulted in more greyhounds suffering in agony. In four race meetings, 23 dogs have been injured. 13 May was the “Grand Re-opening” of the Richmond curved track after a $700,000 upgrade gifted by the NSW Perrottet Government. The club’s promo tagline was […]
Two greyhounds share same birthday – and die on the same day
The racing industry hates to think of greyhounds as individual dogs. Well, here’s another tragic story of individual greyhounds that we won’t allow to be swept under the carpet. Two greyhounds were killed on the same day. Fly Calypso was a two-year-old girl born on 5 November 2019. On 10 May 2022, she crashed into the […]
Two young brothers killed within a week of each other; end of the litter?
The tragedy of greyhound racing added a new chapter to the record of cruelty. Two young greyhound brothers killed within a week of each other are the latest in an unprecedented spike in greyhound racing deaths. 26-month-old brindle Bok Choy Burner was euthanased at Gawler SA on 6 May 2022. He’d sustained a broken foreleg […]
Taxpayers’ $4.6m “safe” Grafton track delivers brutal night of hurt
The sight of greyhounds being injured and thrown around the Grafton NSW track has once again shattered the racing industry’s claim that racing can be made safe. It had been a night of hurt. On Monday night, seven greyhounds were injured (16 May 2022). The race videos show visual evidence of the reality of racing, […]
Huge response to The Project episode on “Greyhounds Abuse”
Channel 10’s current affairs program, The Project, aired an expose on the greyhound racing industry and its failure around dog welfare and rehoming on 28 April 2022. The episode was also posted on The Project’s Facebook page, garnering 96K views and 1K shares with 1.3K likes and 1.4K comments. The story was the biggest on […]