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Protest gegen Greyhoundrennen in Jamaika

(März 09): Anscheinend hat der Premierminister sich gegen Greyhoundrennen ausgesprochen.

Es gibt Gerüchte, dass es auch in Jamaika bald Greyhoundrennen geben soll (anscheinend wegen der zu schaffenden Arbeitsplätze). Bitte kopieren Sie den untenstehenden Brief und senden Sie diesen unterschrieben an die angegebene EMail-Adresse.

*INTERNATIONAL APPEAL*
STOP POSSIBLE GREYHOUND RACING IN JAMAICA!!!!
*LET'S INUNDATE AND EDUCATE - WE ARE EXTREMELY CONCERNED ABOUT THIS.
PLEASE GIVE YOUR FULL SUPPORT TO THIS APPEAL.*

Greyhound Crusaders/SWAP team UK put out an alert to all our supporters last year and more recently about the possibility of greyhound racing in Jamaica. We have recently been informed there is now a rumour that they are trying to go forward with the plan.

Please could all our supporters national and international now write to the sports minister in Jamaica The Honourable Olivia Grange at ogrange@micys.gov.jm telling her about the plight of the racing greyhound. We must nip this in the bud!!!
Please keep all correspondence polite, please see the info below.

Many thanks for your support
Greyhound Crusaders/SWAP team UK

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Dear

I have recently heard that there are plans to bring greyhound racing to Jamaica. This has raised grave concerns for me as a greyhound lover and I felt it was most important to bring this matter to your attention.
To introduce greyhound racing to Jamaica would be an absolute travesty due to the thousands of greyhounds that are destroyed worldwide every year once they are retired from racing, average age 3-4 years old. Additionally, thousands of greyhound pups are destroyed each year because they are considered 'unsuitable for racing'. The RSPCA in the UK (Royal Society for the Protection of Animals) believes: "at least 20 greyhounds a day - either puppies which do not make the track, or 'retired' dogs aged three or four - simply 'disappear', presumed killed". Also the fact that many greyhounds
every year sustain serious, sometimes fatal injuries whilst racing.

Please view the recent UK APGAW (Associate Parliamentary Group for Animal Welfare) report at this link:
http://www.apgaw.org/userimages/Report%20of%20APGAW%20Inquiry%20into%20the%20Welfare%20of%20Greyhounds.pdf

Additionally, greyhounds have fallen victim to extreme abuse:
Greyhounds have been found drowned, poisoned, shot, abandoned, some emaciated, some with their ears hacked off (or burnt off with acid) to remove identifying tattoos. Some greyhounds are subjected to 'drugging' as a way of 'fixing' certain races. Greyhounds taken on by rescues are often in a poor state of neglect i.e. flea-ridden, worm-ridden, rotten teeth. Greyhounds that are exported from Australia to Asia are often used for dog meat and some greyhounds have been found
hung on trees and thrown down wells in Spain.

Greyhounds are sometimes found with cigarette burns on their bodies, greyhounds with missing toes due to past injuries, greyhounds who have had to have many of their teeth removed due to previous neglect. Untreated injuries that have poorly healed. The list is endless.

You may have read the horrific story of David Smith from Co. Durham in the UK exterminating in the region of 10,000 unwanted greyhounds in a fifteen year period by shooting them callously with a bolt gun and burying them in his back garden. The Sunday Times along with other national newspapers exposed this in 2006.
Please tell me what the fate of racing greyhounds will be in Jamaica, if this type of carnage to greyhounds is happening worldwide then surely it is inevitable that this may happen in Jamaica. Wherever there are profits to be made, animal welfare is low on the agenda. What animal welfare laws are there in Jamaica and are they upheld?

More recently, the Sunday Times in the UK have also exposed two disturbing cases where healthy greyhounds are being sold to
veterinary colleges by those involved in the greyhound racing industry, to be exploited for scientific purposes. On Sunday 2nd March 2008, a Sunday Times article exposed the Royal Veterinary College (the oldest and largest veterinary college in Britain) as having an agreement with a greyhound clinic in Essex to buy body parts taken from healthy greyhounds that were being euthanased regularly by the clinic, the healthy greyhounds were being supplied to the clinic by greyhound trainers who no longer had a use for these dogs.
The full article can be viewed here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3466712.ece

On Sunday 11th May 2008, a second article appeared in the Sunday Times, this time exposing Liverpool University's Small Animal Teaching Hospital as being supplied with healthy young greyhounds by the largest greyhound breeder in Britain, a Mr Charles Pickering. Mr Pickering admitted to selling young, perfectly healthy greyhounds who had failed to make the grade (i.e.chose not to chase the artificial hare or considered simply too slow for the tracks) to the university's animal teaching hospital to be euthanased and used for scientific research. The article also revealed how greyhound trainer 'Richard Fielding' who was also supplied greyhounds by Mr Pickering, gave his older (still healthy) greyhounds once they retired from racing to the university veterinary staff to be euthanased so their organs could be removed for teaching and research purposes. 
The full article can be viewed here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3908388.ece

I am sickened and outraged by the appalling atrocities inflicted upon the racing greyhound and this is why am writing to you today to endeavour to educate you about the disturbing reality of greyhound racing.

If you could spare a few moments to please view this short video
http://greytexploitations.com/awareness-videos
please go into this link for awareness videos and please scroll down to the last video called 'racing to death' (volume up), as this supports the many reasons why I am are so compelled to be a voice for the greyhounds.

I hope that my correspondence to you today will explain the reasons for my concerns upon hearing the news that there may be plans to introduce greyhound racing in Jamaica and I politely and respectfully ask that you support me in opposing any such plans.

Please do all you can to stop this vile trade of sentient beings.
Many thanks.
Very best wishes

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