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Greyhound
Racing Facts
- Over
20,000 greyhounds are killed each year in the United States
alone.
- Since
1990, there have been more than 75 media-documented abuse
cases involving thousands of racing greyhounds nationwide.
These cases involve greyhounds shot to death, abandoned
with their muzzles on, left starving in their crates, sold
for medical experimentation, and electrocuted.
- Racing
dogs typically live in small crates for 18-20 hours a day
with exercise once every few days. Some are kept muzzled
almost constantly.
- The
typical diet of a racing greyhound is raw 4-D meat (taken
from diseased, downed, dying or dead livestock).
- Tucson
Greyhound Park is considered by the industry to be
one of the lowest of the low-end tracks in the country.
Additionally, thanks to a hardship tax credit passed by
the Arizona Legislature, TGP has paid no state taxes since
mid-1996 despite annual revenues of nearly $5 million. TGP
is a privately lowned corporation whose principals are residents
of New York and Miami.
- Individual
state regulations are not effective, since a dog can be
bred in one state, trained in another state, and raced in
several states. As dogs grade-off due to injury, age or
poor performance, they are sent to race at lower-end tracks.
- Contrary
to racing industry claims, the majority of unwanted greyhounds
are not placed as pets – there are simply not enough
homes for them all.
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