Bloody Irish Greyhound Board!! (Bing translation)
Cherbourg, 27/10/2014. Alerted by the Irish Ferries shipping company, 11 Greyhounds were found dead by the Gendarmes Maritime of Cherbourg SPPP (maritime and port surveillance platoon) on board the vessel Oscar Wilde, 27th October 2014 around 2 pm. Crammed 2 in cages, in a truck from Rosslare (Ireland), 11 racing Greyhounds died suffocated during the 17 h crossing.
Veterinary services said death was by asphyxiation. No autopsy was performed.
Over Easter weekend April 8 to 9, 2012 a hiker found 40 km south-east of Limerick, Ireland, an open mass grave with 7-8 greyhounds from the racetrack come.
An initial investigation by “Limerick Animal Welfare” shows that some cadavers were in a serious state of decomposition and there were also certainly two greyhounds dumped in it recently. It is suspected that there will be more skeletons, but the overgrown site needs clearing to allow further investigation.
Need I say more than you can read here.
China crisis for greyhounds-NEW PETITION to sign against the Irish Greyhound Board’s new proposals to set up five new greyhound stadiums in China- worldwide signatures needed now please! Thousands upon thousands of signatures are needed now so please forward this petition to all your family and friends and everyone in your address book.
– now on Youtube. Please share worldwide on websites, twitter, facebook
The wonderful singer/songwriter ‘Maria Daines’ has sent us a brilliant video on the China crisis for greyhounds. Thank you Maria yet again for your wonderful support. Please watch the video and share with others around the world.
This is an extension of the campaign to stop Irish greyhounds being sent to China. I have no doubt that readers in Oz will have some comments.
Urgent- please write to the Australian Prime Minster the Hon Julia Gillard MP to stop greyhounds being exported to the Macau track where they live in appalling conditions most of which are killed at the end of their racing days! Worldwide letters needed now please to help these poor greyhounds who suffer and die, all for the price of a bet.
This is a quote from the recent Irish Daily mail investigation-
Please would all our national and international supporters now contact the ‘ISPCA’ (the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) and ask them to mobilise all their supporters to join this vital campaign to protect our greyhounds. Other leading animal welfare organisations are also backing the worldwide campaign to stop Irish Greyhounds being exported to China. We need every voice!
Letters and Emails needed urgently.
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Please read and act on the important message below from Greyhound Action
Ireland
Many people involved in welfare and who are greyhound “owners” have been
sending emails and letters to the Irish government to oppose the idea of
sending greyhounds to China, and there have also been demonstrations at
Irish embassies in several countries. This has had some affect on the
Department of Agriculture, which very recently received a formal proposal
from the Irish Greyhound Board to consider the China project.
This interesting information was in a comment today on Galgo News, which explains the horrors awaiting Irish and UK greyhounds exported to China. Darrell Leathen explains.
‘I am an Australian greyhound trainer and am appalled at irish g/racing for even contemplating exporting dogs to china, they kill and consume over 2 million cats/dogs per annum… they equate eating dog to an american eating a hotdog, someone ought to inform them they are made from lips and cheeks.. this cannot be allowed to happen and i will proposition greyhound racing victoria to speak with greyhound racing ireland to stop this abhorent exercise…we do not eat our mates/ BAN THIS PRACTICE’
Please include this information in any of your protest letters.
Greyhounds to China – two addresses for postal letters to be sent.
Irish Greyhound Board, Green Park, Dock Road, Limerick, Irish Republic
Department of Agriculture, Agriculture House, Kildare St., Dublin 2, Irish
Republic
Further appeal from Greyhound Action
