Run for your life
Greyhounds
Greyhounds Everywhere |
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| Thousands of greyhounds are destroyed every year by lethal injection and most are between 18 months and 5 years old. | ||||
| Others are simply abandoned. Some end up in rescue homes. Others are shipped off to Ireland. | ||||
| One of the greyhounds we had in was pushed from a moving car as it was going through a village high street - he received a leg injury which needed stitching. Another was caught and brought in by the dog warden - it had been straying for weeks. And then there's Sadie - a 2 year old that was due to be destroyed because she was frightened of the mechanical hare. | ||||
| I could fill F.A.I.T.H.'s kennels with greyhounds in just a few days. There are far too many bred. | ||||
| Greyhounds are exported to Spain - they have to go via Ireland where the EEC pay Irish farmers to breed many more. | ||||
Please write
to your EMP to get this payment stopped. |
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Please also
write and ask the Home Secretary and your MP to implement the home affairs
committee's recommendation of doubling the £5.00 fee paid by owners
to the NGRC trust to set up sanctuaries for retired greyhounds. |
| "A thousand greyhounds are cramped in filthy kennels on a hill above a Barcelonian suburb. | ||||
| Greyhound skins are drying out in the sun nearby. They come to this foul smelling place to live a life of misery and cruelty. They get no exercise and no affection (which they crave). | ||||
| They will run in stifling temperatures until they are either too injured or worn out to race. Then they will either be killed, sold on or go for vivisection. | ||||
| British dogs are sent to Ireland to be auctioned along with Irish dogs. From there many will be shipped off to Spain to run their last." | ||||
(Newspaper extract) |
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| Henry - an old greyhound that came into F.A.I.T.H. He lived in the house as he didn't get on in the kennels (flash-backs to his younger days, maybe). He was a good dog in the house and never took any notice of the cats. He was dog number 13 - lucky for some - and a family came looking for a pet and fell in love with him. He started a new life again aged 11 yrs. | ||||
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GREYHOUND IS FOR LIFE |