Fatal Collissions Filmed at Dog Race Track
The USA based Committee to Protect Dogs announced today that it has documented hundreds of violent and sometimes fatal dog race collisions that took place at Massachusetts racetracks over the past year. Video footage has been posted online at www.ProtectDogs.org, and includes the final race for Starz Voice, a two-year-old white and red greyhound who died at Raynham Park on June 25, 2007.
“The ‘Yes on 3′ campaign is based on thoroughly documented injuries that continue to occur at local racetracks,” said MSPCA-Angell President Carter Luke. “This new footage adds to the tracks’ injury reports and photographs of confinement, allowing voters to witness the intensity of collisions that end the lives of racing dogs as well as mangle and break their bones. We want voters to know exactly what they are voting for and we are confident they will agree that dog racing is cruel and inhumane and vote Yes on 3.”
According to state records, more than 800 greyhounds have been injured while racing in Massachusetts since 2002. Nearly 80 percent of injuries involved broken legs, and other injuries include paralysis, cardiac arrest and head trauma.
To learn more about these injuries and fatalities, the Committee to Protect Dogs recorded and watched every Massachusetts greyhound race for an entire year, beginning in May 2007. During that time, the Committee documented more than three hundred violent and sometimes fatal collisions.
“This footage puts an end to the discussion on whether greyhounds suffer on the track,” said Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States. “They do suffer, and they do so for a dying industry that has no place in the new economy of Massachusetts.”
The Committee to Protect Dogs is a state ballot question committee dedicated to passing stronger dog protection laws in the Commonwealth. Committee co-chairs include representatives of the MSPCA-Angell (www.mspca.org), The Humane Society of the United States (www.humanesociety.org) and greyhound protection group GREY2K USA (www.grey2kusa.org). For more information, call Brian Adams at 617-541-5120 or visit www.ProtectDogs.org.
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dog racing is not cruel my friends to luchers often race each other round the park, and nor is doing it competiitivly,
what is cruel is the couruption brought on by exessive gambling, and spiking thedogs, and people forcing dogs to race, and retired dogs being pts becasue of ingorant people spreding the myth that ex racers are not suitable as pets
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kathy ott Reply:
February 2nd, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Hi,
I have to say this I read a lot about how dogs are treated at the tracks well as a ex trainer who only worked as a helper and trainer to be with the dogs. There are many trainers who only work the kennels so they can help the dogs my husband started a kennel with dogs that were to be killed it started with six dogs that couldn’t make it as racers so we took them in within a year we had five kennels over the state of Florida with at the least 60 dogs per kennel. We also had some of the top dogs at each track we loved them and and played with them all the time also no face mask unless outside but we had to race them to feed them than my husband Doug would drive thousands of miles to pet them out. Just had to say there are good guys out there sometime just bad owners. that won’t allow you to pet them out only kill them as owners I mean the dog owner as kennels only lease the dogs most of the time.
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yer right
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