Des greyhounds mutilés en Irlande... Réagissez...

07.08.2008

Reçu de Kathi et trouvé sur le blog de LN :
http://agir-pour-les-galgos.over-blog.com/article-21676160.html
Irishtimes

On a retrouvé le corps de deux Greyhounds mutilés dans une rivière d'Irlande.

Ces pauvres Greyhounds qui avaient du se blesser lors d'une course ont été éliminés par leur maître et un des chiens a eu l'oreille arrachée pour ne pas l'identifier.

Il s'agissait d'un mâle et une femelle attachés ensemble avant d'être lestés d'un poids et jetés du haut d'un pont. La tête de la femelle était dévorée par les rats.

L'inspecteur qui a retiré les corps de la rivière était en état de choc, il a dit : "il serait temps que les hommes prennent conscience de l'urgence de changer de mentalité vis à vis du bien-être des animaux ".

Impossible de savoir si les chiens étaient vivants au moment où ils ont été jetés à l'eau .

Et l'inspecteur de conclure:

"Les gens qui sont capables de faire une telle chose avec des animaux pourraient être aussi bien capables de le faire sur les hommes et c'est bien ce qui me préoccupe"

Nous pouvons écrire, même en français, notre indignation...
en citant la source http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/

Dear Sirs, I am so chocked by the news found on http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/ that I want to ask for Justice for these two greyhounds. I hope that all efforts will be made and all steps taken to identifiy the people able to perpetrate such atrocities.

With Best regards, vos nom prénom ville pays.
Adresses email :

admin@igb.ie (quartier général du Irish Greyhound Board, organisation irlandaise du Grey)

pat.herbert@igb.ie (greyhound welfare)

MORE CARNAGE OF GREYHOUNDS

> Following the recent horrific article about bodies of mutilated greyhounds found recently in a river in Ireland- please take action-it is time now to inundate the Irish Greyhound Board.

> Greyhound Crusaders/SWAP team UK want justice served to the b***ard/s who did this.Please read the very disturbing recent article below from the Irish Times and take immediate action.

> We are appealing to all our supporters national and international to flood the Irish greyhound Board (Bord na gCon) with your emails to strongly urge that everything is done to find out who is responsible for this heinous crime and impose the maximum prison sentence and a total life ban on keeping animals. If anyone involved in the racing industry sees this email and you have any info about this particular case please contact the Irish Greyhound Board immediately at the email addys below or contact-

Bord na gCon / Irish Greyhound Board

104 Henry Street
> Limerick
> Tel: 061 316788
> Fax: 061 316739
> Email: admin@igb.ie

Please send your polite emails to the IGB demanding justice for the greyhounds and please ask them what steps they are taking to identify the perpetrators. Let's inundate these people worldwide to show the strength of our feeling and solidarity- email addys here-

admin@igb.ie (HQ)

pat.herbert@igb.ie (greyhound welfare)

Many thanks for your support

Greyhound Crusaders/SWAP team UK

Pioneers for change/Every life counts

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0801/1217368811973.html

Friday, August 1, 2008

Bodies of mutilated dogs found in river

PADDY CLANCY

> ANIMAL WELFARE workers were stunned by the extent of cruelty behind the deaths of two unwanted greyhounds. The badly mutilated bodies were recovered this week from a tributary of the river Foyle near St Johnston, Co Donegal.

> Experts reckoned they were about three years old when dumped with weights in the water. They had probably ended their racing lives either through injury or for some other reason and their owner was no longer prepared to give them a home. The ears, where racing greyhounds carry identification marks, were cut off one of the dogs, a male.

> There was part of a rope around the neck of the other, a female, indicating a weight had been attached before she was dropped in the river, probably from a bridge over the Suille river near the Northern Ireland Border. The female's head had been almost entirely eaten by rats.

> The bodies were spotted floating on Wednesday morning by a local farmer near St Johnston.

> ISPCA inspector Kevin McGinley removed the carcases from the river. He was still shocked when he spoke yesterday about the discovery. "It is mind-blowing that such wanton cruelty exists. It just reminds us of the need for people to have a change of attitude towards animal welfare."

> Mr McGinley said it was not possible to say if the dogs were dead or alive when dumped, because of the decomposition.

> "This is as bad as it gets. People who are capable of doing something like this to animals could be just as capable of human abuse and that worries me."