There is a new facebook page for people to protest about the Irish sending greyhounds to China via Manchester airport and Lufthansa. This is what is going on today – 12 May 2016 –
All is not lost….. And we need you to go crazy posting and calling for those 24 dogs today.
We have been informed that they are due to arrive in Macau at 17:30 tomorrow. This ties in VERY NEATLY with a Lufthansa flight leaving Manchester at 18:10 today.
BOMBARD Lufthansa with requests not to transport the dogs on their facebook page and call this number 03719459747 (customer services)
Remind them of:
1. The fact that they made an ethical decision not to transport beagle to testing labs. Why not protect the greyhounds too?
2. They don’t carry hunting trophies. That was a good call, both ethically and on a business front. To transport the greyhounds would not be.
3. All their good work in supporting animal welfare will be undermined if they don’t protect the greyhounds.
4. Thousands and thousands of people across the world are opposed to them transporting these greyhounds. Perhaps they’d like to consider the damage to their reputation and subsequent loss of income.
5. The police, transport authorities and RSPCA are involved in investigating the transportation of the dogs to the airport in vehicles that break the law on at least one count.
6. Due to the nature of the transportation from Ireland, the health of the 24 greyhounds may be seriously compromised and it is not safe to put them in crates in cargo on a long haul flight, where they will be unsupervised. Do Lufthansa want any of the greyhounds to die en route?
7. The Greyhound Board of Great Britain are taking action against those involved for breaching their rules.
8. Dogs Trust, The ISPCA and The Irish Blue Cross have stated that they oppose the transportation of greyhounds to Macau.
9. To transport these dogs would not be in the spirit of German Animal welfare legislation, which emphasises the responsibility of the individual to protect animals.
10. Qantas and Cathay Pacific refused to transport racing greyhounds to Macau. If they can do it, so can Lufthansa. No ifs. No buts. They just can.
11. It’s just wrong and they know it as much as we do!!!!
HOW MANY MORE REASONS DO YOU NEED TO SAY NO LUFTHANSA??
If you are on facebook, go to the Lufthansa Cargo facebook page where you can post a comment.
Comments
7 responses to “Lufthansa fly 24 greyhounds from Ireland to China today – Protest”
Have contacted loads of media bodies from Manchester airport to Daily Mail online to The Express to CEo of Lufthansa. By the way, date above reads as 21 May when today is 12 May.
Just phoned Lufthansa, and was listened to………..was told lots of people been ringing them.
Let’s hope they will have a re-think for the future.
Thousands and thousands of people across the world are opposed to you transporting these greyhounds. Perhaps you’d like to consider the damage to your reputation and subsequent loss of income?
Do the right thing and join other ethical airlines, send out a statement that shows you care and stop this, or see your profits fall.
thank you, amended date! Caged Northwest now have a video of the dogs being transferred from lorry to lorry at Manchester. On facebook, will try and post link
lufthansa will lose a lot of clients as they are participating to the mursers of those Greyhounds and everybody should know that
John AHAD
All dogs go to Heaven, according to the animated movie of the same name. Unfortunately it seems that some Irish ones have been condemned to a living Hell on Earth. Greyhounds are being exported to the Canidrome racing venue at Macau, China, deemed by animal welfare groups to be one of the cruelest and most dangerous tracks in the world.
The Macau Society for the Protection of Animals, which monitors activities at the Canidrome very closely, states that more than thirty greyhounds, most of them young and healthy, die there every month and that all dogs used on the track are eventually killed. There are no rescue centre or pet-adoption options available for them.
Since 1963, thousands of Australian greyhounds were killed at the track, but last December two major airlines (Qantas and Cathay Pacific) refused to transport any more dogs from Australia to Macau. This has created a shortage of racers at the Canidrome that is now, sadly, being filled by Irish greyhounds. Once these have ceased to perform or impress in races, they will be disposed of in a dog slaughterhouse and the meat put on sale at markets or sold to restaurants.
On March 16th the first three greyhounds from Ireland arrived in Hong Kong and were transported to Macau. These were easily identifiable by their distinctive ear-markings as they had been registered with the Irish Greyhound Board.
A photograph of one of these dogs, taken shortly after its arrival in Macau, shows the unfortunate creature bleeding from front and back legs. Other pictures show crates of Irish greyhounds being unloaded at the local port for transfer to the Canidrome.
An online petition by greyhound welfare group Grey2K calls for the intervention of the Taoiseach and Minister for Agriculture to halt export of any more dogs to China. It has been signed by more than 242,000 people to date.
In 2011, when a similar controversy arose, the Department of Agriculture blocked greyhound exports to China. Now, the Department says that there is no ban on this activity.
I wonder if there’s any chance that our greyhound industry might develop a conscience and call a halt to this scandal. If not, I appeal to the incoming government to intervene to save these unfortunate dogs.
Irish greyhounds deserve better.
Thank you john Fitzgerald for your comment, I’ve sent it to GD Removals in Ireland and also posted on the Lufthansa cargo facebook page. Hopefully many people will read it before it is removed. I’ve said it’s a comment from a reader of my blog.