à ceux qui ne voient pas pourquoi il n'est pas responsable de
proposer des lévriers à l'adoption là où des "pros" des courses peuvent venir les adopter à moindre frais. Un lévrier qui ne peut plus courir au top niveau est un animal qu'ils
préfèrent voir mort !
From: Greyhound Crusaders
To: "Undisclosed- Recipient: ;"@smtpin19.
hostedemail. com
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 8:02 PM
Subject: Proposal for greyhound racing in Jamaica-say no now!!
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PLEASE CROSSPOST TO THE MOON AND BACK NATIONALLY AND
INTERNATIONALLY
LET'S INUNDATE AND EDUCATE BIG TIME
Proposal for greyhound racing in Jamaica- STOP IT BEFORE IT
STARTS!!! NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LETTERS NEEDED NOW.
Please read the appeal below from Greyhound Compassion and take inmmediate action by writing to the Jamaican High
Commisssion in London. Please refer to the Greyhound Action website for the plight of the racing greyhound www.greyhoundaction .org.uk and/or use the sample letter below from Greyhound Crusaders/SWAP team UK, using your own words
please. No email address has been provided so please make sure you use the right postage stamp for the UK if you are posting from
abroad.
Letters to
Jamaican High
Commission
> 1-2 Prince Consort Road,
> London
> SW7 2BZ
> Tel: 020 7823 9911
> Fax: 020 7589 5154
> Many thanks for your support
Greyhound Crusaders/SWAP team UK
We all make the difference!! !
Dear Jamaican High Commission
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%20Inquir y%20into% 20the%20Welfare% 20of%20Greyhound s.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.timesonl ine.co.uk/ tol/news/ uk/article346671 2.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.timesonl ine.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://uk.youtube. com/watch? v=1rAB-PY7XZQ (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.
Ghandi once said "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the
way it treats its animals".
Please do all you can to stop this vile trade of sentient beings.
Many thanks.
Very best wishes
Name and address to be supplied
---- Original Message -----
From: greyhound compassion
To: Undisclosed- Recipient: ;
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 9:22 PM
Subject: Proposal for greyhound racing in Jamaica
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Dear everyone,
We've recently heard about the proposal below to start greyhound racing in Jamaica. Please feel free to write to the
Jamaican High Commission to let them know the reality of greyhound racing.
http://www.caribbea nnetnews. com/news- 8373--9-9- -.html
> Jamaican High Commission
> 1-2 Prince Consort Road,
> London
> SW7 2BZ
> Tel: 020 7823 9911
> Fax: 020 7589 5154
>
www.greyhoundcompas sion.com
The RSPCA 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"
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> KINGSTON, Jamaica
(JIS): A Member of the Jamaican Parliament, Dr St Aubyn Bartlett, has said that greyhound racing has great potential for creating more jobs in Jamaica than the
nation's horse racing industry.
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> Bartlett, who is also close to the racing industry as a veterinarian, was making his contribution to the 2008/09 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives
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> He noted that greyhound racing was an evening and night event, with two race meets per day totalling 24 or more races in one day.
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> "This is an attraction which can provide the needed nightly industry entertainment for our tourism industry," Bartlett said.
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> He also informed that several potential investors and stakeholders were at the "starting gates rearing to chase the hare."
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> "Currently, there are no greyhounds in Jamaica, meaning a new industry will be created starting with the importation of breeding stock, the establishment of
breeding kennels and training facilities and the building of stadia," Bartlett said.
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> The Member of Parliament also informed that he has been meeting with potential investors, both locally and overseas.
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> "I have asked the Minister in charge of animal sports industry for a meeting with these stakeholders at a time convenient to him. This is an investment
opportunity that Jamaica cannot afford to miss," Bartlett emphasised.
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Letters to the Editor
Letter: Regarding the greyhoundracing industry
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> Dear Sir:
> What will the fate be for these wonderful and gentle breed ("Greyhound racing has great potential, says Jamaican MP")? Do they know that "You bet they die"?
Please do some research on the truth of racing then please try to help stop it. Get all the facts and see how they die when they can not longer win.
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> Janet Lopata
> Prescott, Arizona
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