Category: Campaign

Another petition to sign, to help the galgos. Add your name and comment here.

This link will take you to a poll about hare coursing. What this means is that the paper wants to get a feel of how the rest of the world feels about coursing with real hares and greyhounds. It is important to vote ‘yes’ as this is the only chance both hares and greyhounds have. Hare coursing is banned in the UK. Unfortunately it has driven the ‘blood sport’ underground. But it is still important to keep it banned. So vote ‘Yes’ to help both the hares and the dogs. At the moment it is 28% for the ban, 79% against a ban. Disgraceful!

Vote on this link Scroll down the page to the bottom right-hand corner.

Whilst greyhound action groups around the world are protesting about the possibility of building a greyhound racing stadium at Logan, Queensland, Australia, and one of the comment posters, Sue Burley of Australia, is explaining why Oz greyhounds live such fantastic lives, this post has been sent to me. Perhaps Sue would now honestly explain just how far this project has got, since this post is over one year old!

Sue Birley, Australia (Greyhound-Data Team Member)
Posts 1929
Dogs 5,281 / Races 5,021
11 May 2009 06:35

Was driving past the Cronulla Park site this morning and lo and behold there were the Engineers with their equipment and a big drilling machine working on the EPA report? Not rumour, fact seen with my own eyes.
Now why would they be continuing with the EPA report if Logan wasn’t going ahead Dan?

http://greyhound-data.com/knowledge.php?b=4&note=394489&order=&x=12

There has been a very active, informative and interesting debate on the post about petitioning against the building of a greyhound stadium in Logan, Queensland, Australia. One of the vociferous pro-greyhound people posting comments is Sue Burley.

She is, or was last year, an active member of the Australia Greyhound Data Team and this is one of her comments, and a link.

‘No need for another club with the Gold Coast having 3 tracks and racing 7 days a week, as long as we satisfy the Unitab agreement.

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To add to the lively debate regarding the protest against the construction of a greyhound racing stadium at Logan, Queensland, Australia, take a look at this. And please add your name to the petition.

http://www.petitiononline.com/GAIBEGA/petition.html

To: Australian federal Government

We the undersigned call upon the Australian federal government to ban the export of greyhounds to Asia.

The Australian greyhound racing industry is shamelessly promoting and encouraging greyhound racing in Asia. At present greyhounds are being exported from Australia to Asia to places such as Korea, Vietnam and China for the purpose of racing/breeding with further plans to create networks of tracks throughout Cambodia and the Philippines. These are countries notorious for the barbaric torture and slaughter of dogs for human consumption. There is no hope or opportunity of rehoming greyhounds that are ‘surplus’ to requirements in Asia. As exposed by the media they are ending their days being butchered in the dog meat industry or thrown into landfills. At present this is the fate of Australian greyhounds in Asia.’

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UPDATE— Greyhound Crusaders/SWAP team UK have written to the Mayor of Logan and all the Logan councillors and we have been informed by one of the Logan councillors that
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“I need to point out that it is not a decision of Council. This facility is being developed and implemented by the QLD State Government. The only involvement of council was that we voted to give up the trusteeship of the land which was and is owned by the state”.
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Therefore, please now send all your worldwide polite protests to the Queensland Government to protest on the below important appeal – government.gateway@qld.gov.au

The following has been received from Greyhound Crusaders – please join in the campaign as, if the stadium is built, galgos could end up there!

$25 million dollar greyhound racing track proposed in Logan (Australia)- please stop it before it starts! EVERY LETTER COUNTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD TO PROTECT THESE GREYHOUNDS

PETITION TO SIGN AND WORLDWIDE PROTESTS NEEDED NOW
Please scroll down for more info on how you can help this dire situation.

“THE FUTURE DEPENDS ON WHAT WE DO IN THE PRESENT”

(Mahatma Ghandi)

SIGN THE PETITION HERE– WORLDWIDE SIGNATURES NEEDED PLEASE

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Sandra Baas of Baas Galgo has just launched a campaign ‘Together for Galgos’ and you can read all about it here.

Here’s a petition to sign about the abuse of Irish greyhounds. Please add your name.

Many British greyhound owners, breeders and trainers can be bastards, as well as the Spanish galgueros and gitanos. So here is an appeal for help from Greyt Exploitations to rescue British greyhounds from a hellish situation, and to support their campaign for closure of a stud and puppy farm.

ZigZag Kennels ~ Please Help!

Dear Supporter

We urgently need your help to ensure the welfare of a large number of greyhounds kept in appalling conditions at ZigZag stud and puppy farm on the outskirts of Lincoln. Please click here to view the extensive and very disturbing evidence.

The farm is owned by Charles Pickering who was first exposed in 2008 by the Sunday Times for selling puppies to Liverpool University for research and dissection.

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