[D66] Dog-Racing Industry CRUSHED

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https://www.peta.org/blog/florida-historic-vote-greyhound-racing-ban

Victory! Dog-Racing Industry CRUSHED After Florida Votes to Ban Races
Written by Michelle Kretzer | November 6, 2018

In a landmark victory for dogs, Florida has voted in favor of a
greyhound-racing ban, which will end live races and simulcast betting on
dog races at the state’s 11 tracks. Soon, only six greyhound racetracks
will still be operating in the U.S. Since Florida is the hub of the
country’s dog-racing industry, this historic vote will likely bring
about their closure as well.

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Shutting down the tracks will save thousands of gentle greyhounds from
being caged for 22 to 23 hours a day, given performance-enhancing
drugs—including cocaine—and forced to run to the point that many sustain
broken legs, develop heatstroke, or suffer heart attacks. Dogs used for
racing have incurred spinal injuries, broken necks, and crushed skulls,
and some were electrocuted when they collided with electric fences. On
average, one dog dies every three days on a Florida racetrack. Now, all
greyhound racing will end in Florida by 2020.


Now, PETA is working to shut down canine blood banks that hold dogs
captive, to which many of those used for racing are sent after they’re
deemed no longer useful to the racing industry. A PETA eyewitness
investigation of Hemopet in Garden Grove, California, found that this
so-called “rescue” warehouses greyhounds in crates and barren kennels;
denies them proper exercise, companionship, and even needed medical
care; and subjects them to repeated blood draws, even though, according
to the staff, some of the dogs border on anemia.

PETA has already shut down one blood bank hellhole, The Pet Blood Bank,
in Texas, and rescued all the dogs imprisoned there. We can do it again.
Please help by demanding that the National Greyhound Association bar its
members from sending their dogs to be held captive in blood banks and
asking your veterinarian to obtain blood only from donor dogs who live
in loving homes.