Rehoming Review FY24
This review uses the industry’s own data to demonstrate that Australia’s greyhound racing industry continues to breed, exploit and dispose of thousands of dogs each year — with minimal oversight, accountability, or genuine regard for their welfare.
The data shows a national greyhound racing system marked by chronic overbreeding, under-resourced rehoming, and widespread killing of healthy dogs. The worst-performing states — NSW, VIC and QLD — dominate national breeding and therefore drive the industry’s ongoing failure to protect greyhounds at scale.
Critical findings
The industry rehoming organisations (GAPs) rehomed just 3,580 dogs, fewer than the combined total offloaded through unregulated pathways.
Unregulated third-party adoptions more than doubled, exposing greyhounds to unnecessary euthanasia and abandonment.
Community rescue groups continued to pick up the slack in industry rehoming, despite receiving no formal funding or support.
Overbreeding remains rampant, with 8,633 pups whelped — nearly 2.5 times the number adopted via GAPs.
Euthanasia climbed to 1,772 dogs, the highest figure since 2019, as the industry maintained its reliance on killing dogs that are older, injured, or need rehabilitation.*
We’re asking people to please share this damning report with their state MPs because they are the people who can stop this cruelty.