Up to 70% of all greyhounds bred for racing may not even ever do any racing and may end up being destroyed, inhumanely in some cases, and all before they are even two years old. Greyhounds have been found beaten to death, shot, starved to death and even electrocuted. The typical lifespan of a racing dog may only be two to three years with maybe around 5%-7% of them getting adopted out to good homes with the other 93% of all racing greyhounds being destroyed.
Be aware that too many of the so-called do-gooder type adoption organizations may possibly be nothing more than a front for selling greyhounds to research labs where they may live a tortured existence suffering through scientific and medical experiments. They will likely either die in the process or will be killed after the research project is completed.
Racetrack owners have been duped into donating their used-up, worn out racing dogs to certain greyhound adoption groups only to find out later their dogs were never adopted out but instead were sold for big bucks to research labs. Research labs like greyhounds because they are big, gentle and thus easy to work with. Don’t forget about the countless rabbits, kittens and guinea pigs that are killed which are used as live bait in greyhound racing training practices.
SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: ACTIONLINE MAGAZINE SPRING 2000 & HARD COPY TV NEWS 7/14/97 & ANIMAL WELFARE GENESIS AWARDS 5/12/01