Coalition for the Protection of Greyhounds
End greyhound suffering
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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, … Read more
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 … Read more
The Gosford racing club held an Easter Family Fun Night on 8 April to “kick off the school holidays with FRIDAY NIGHT RACING”, where people would “WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN!”. All kids’ activities were free. Two dogs were killed at the “fun event”. The story of Black Eyeliner is heartbreaking. Three days ago, she … Read more