Those Poor Greyhounds.

[the_great_she_elephant]

Having grown up on a farm I have never been maudlin or sentimental about animals, but this expose on The 7.30 Report last night , shocked me to the core.  How can this possibly be allowed to continue?

Warning, don't click on this link unless you have a strong stomach.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-09/greyhounds-exported-to-macau-china-against-industry-rules/7014...

[go-tazz]

Then someone needs to act as all Australian greyhounds are ear tagged,(so it would be easy to track down

the owners that sold these dogs).

Make an example of a few of them by banning them from owning racing dogs here.

[lyndal1838]

I agree with Tazz.

There is plenty of regulation in the industry here in Australia to track the owners who are seling their dogs.

It is about time the governing bodies pulled them into line instead of just saying that they are doing the wrong thing.

[debra9275]

I watched a little bit of it on 7.30 report but had to turn the channel as I couldn't watch it. The owners selling the dogs and the brokers sending them on need to be stopped

[raptor_rebooted]

[lind9650]

I have some friends who own two racing Greyhounds. The dogs are living with the family like any other pet and are very much loved. The dogs are gentle and affectioonate, even with the little children.

When they race it's like a job for the dogs, like Police dogs or Sheep dogs.

Sometimes they win and sometimes they loose a race, but the owners would never get rid of them, win or loose.

I watched the program and it made me feel sick.

Erica

[bright.ton42]

I couldn't watch it all but what I saw made me literally want to throw up.  Now it's been brought to the public eye one can only hope something good will come from it and save those beautiful dogs from the barbaric monsters. 

[bluecat*dancing]

Sickening treatment of such beautiful and gentle dogs,

[go-tazz]

Part of the newsletter I was sent,(I'm a part owner in a Victorian registered greyhound).

“We are working closely with Greyhounds Australasia to put a stop to all such exports but while trade with poorly regulated and enforced jurisdictions is banned under Victorian and National greyhound racing rules, it’s not yet illegal under Federal law.”

“Despite repeated appeals by Australian greyhound regulatory authorities for a Federal ban on exporting greyhounds to such jurisdictions, no action has been taken to date.”

“Everyone who loves this racing code and the greyhounds that are its heart must be united in stamping out this terrible trade.”

[the_great_she_elephant]

The problem is, it's not actually illegal - only against the rules of the Greyhound Racing Authority who issue the 'passports.' In fact no 'passports' have been issued for some time now and  the trade could easily be prevented by the Mnister for trade making it ilegal to export the dogs without a passport. Both the racing body and the animal welfare people have urged him to do this, but he seems to think it wouldn't solve anything.