Yes they do the flapping, they do timed trials every Sunday too for any Greyhound owner, you could take your girlie! They are even willing to let any dog run after the trials, really great people up there.

Shocking!!!

I think you will find that the 3 dog was not fast enough and was then killed is a very nasty way.


But then again it might have been taking home by its owner


Nice video

Maybe you should spend a day at a racing kennel and see how we try to do the best for are dogs.

she might now talking about horse racing, but this thread is about greyhound racing so i am sticking to that! not moving on to a different animal that is irrelevant to this thread. and, no i DO NOT like horse racing either.

i will admit i have no experience of racing, but that is because i would never do that to a dog. i have read a lot about it, and my sister used to go to the track when she was younger and she has told me about it. that is enough for me, so i will never have 'experience' of it, coz i find it cruel.

you have totally missed my point about where people live. and i did not mention expensive or deprived areas! i was meaning, that members on here are from all over. the majority from the UK but some members are from a variety of countries. so when you have loads of people, from all of the world walking their dogs, there are bound to be some injuries but because of the vast numbers of dogs, you can hardly call walking your dogs as 'dangerous'. im sure if you were to pick one area of britain, and find the numbers of how many dogs there were injured on walks, it would be small.

anyone with sense will realise it isnt ALWAYS possible to keep your dog, but people should try their hardest!

and why else would a 'sporting' dog need to be rehomed when retired?? to make space for a new younger dog?? that is not a valid reason!

yes, it was best for him. but it wasnt a quick decision and she tried her best to avoid it. she loved him, and she didnt do it through choice. she had to.

yes, but if you go into the edit profile it says for that box in brackets 'not including parents dog' (or something like that) and although he wasnt just my parents dog, he was a family dog when i was younger, i didnt put him in that coz he wasnt just mine. whereas jake is. but ok, i will change that. just to make it clear, even though above that i have specifically named sam and given his breed thought that would be clear enough.

it isnt really relevant how many dogs i have had, coz i have grown up around them with all my family having them... so there is a large number with that! and i mentioned that.

i dont like dogs being in kennels, so i dont agree with show kennels. but i was more refering to people who get a dog to live in their home, and then the pup doesnt grown up to be as 'good' as they expected so they rehome them.

we can just agree to disagree lol

i just think the chance of injury is something i wouldnt risk. i do understand some owners/trainers are good but many arent and i think the industry as a whole doesnt come across at all well.

and your post was constructive

Let's stick to greyhounds then, what do you know about greyhound racing, that I don't?

There we are then, say's it all for me. I wouldn't comment on something I knew nothing about.

You've got your 'some' and your 'many' the wrong way around, it should read ' I do understand that many owners and trainers are good but some aren't'. And I'm speaking from experience.


Agreed!

For what reason? As a general rule I would say that aslong as the kennels have ventiliation are dry and clean and that the dogs have raised beds with warm, dry bedding in that kennelled dogs are healthier!

Central heating in houses isn't very healthy for us humans, nice and warm yes but not healthy!

I am??? Coo I never knew that, Im impressed that you know me better than me