Greyhound Racing in Australia - warning - details are UPSETTING

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A spotlight has been shone on dog races in OZ and it is not a pretty picture.

First it was revealed that live baiting of dogs was happening although the practice is completely illegal

Greyhound racing: Piglets, possums and rabbits used as live bait in secret training sessions, Four Corners reveals

Four Corners
By Caro Meldrum-Hanna
Updated 17 Feb 2015, 7:23amTue 17 Feb 2015, 7:23am

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Related Story: Live rabbits allegedly used as lures at Victorian greyhound racing track


Australia's greyhound racing industry is in turmoil after a Four Corners report revealed conclusive evidence of live baiting during secret training sessions.
Monday night's program showed footage of live piglets, possums and rabbits being fixed to mechanical lures and catapulted around tracks while being chased, and eventually killed, by dogs.

One clip from the footage, secretly filmed at training tracks in Queensland and Victoria, showed dogs being allowed to attack a writhing possum suspended from a lure.

Another clip showed a possum flung around a track 26 times at high speed. When the lure stopped 56 minutes later, the possum had been snapped in half and was only attached to the lure by its spinal cord.

Live baiting has been banned and criminalised for decades, but trainers and owners across the country have been using the illegal training method in the belief that it will improve a dog's performance.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-16/live-baiting-expose-to-rock-greyhound-industry/6109878
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Now a site has been found where greyhound carcasses (the count is 55) have been dumped and left to rot. This is what happens to healthy young dogs that are not fast enough. Thousands are disposed of annually.

Man and woman arrested, charged following discovery of 55 dumped greyhound carcasses

Thu 2 Apr 2015, 9:32pm

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Police have arrested and charged two people in Bundaberg after 55 greyhound carcasses were discovered dumped late on Wednesday. The Queensland Police Service and the RSPCA's joint taskforce into the disgraced greyhound racing industry discovered the mass dumping site south of Bundaberg after being tipped off.

A 71-year-old Bundaberg man has been charged with the unlawful possession of a firearm and a 64-year-old Bundaberg woman and licensed greyhound trainer has been charged with one count each of unlawful possession of a firearm and obstruct police. The pair were charged after a search warrant was executed at a Bundaberg residence by the joint Queensland Police Service/RSPCA Greyhound Racing Inquiry Taskforce. The pair is due to appear in the Bundaberg Magistrates Court tomorrow.

RSPCA Queensland spokesman Michael Beatty said inquiries were continuing.
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A lot of people in the area who were involved in the greyhound industry were questioned and it was as a result of information given to us that the joint Queensland Police Service and RSPCA investigation team made those arrests," he said. Earlier today, Detective Superintendent Mark Ainsworth said the greyhounds were found off Coonarr Road in the Vera Scarth-Johnson Wildflower Reservein varying states of decomposition, which indicated they were dumped at different times.

There was no attempt to bury the carcasses and they were left out, some with a single gunshot wound, to be fed on by wild animals, police said.
Wildfires have ripped through the area in recent months, destroying some of the carcasses, and police are investigating if the fires were deliberately lit. Earlier today, Police Minister Jo-Ann Miller said Racing Queensland and police had identified a number of trainers and owners in the area and that would form part of the investigation. Detective Ainsworth said many of the deaths appeared to have occurred before the ABC's Four Corners program exposed in February live-baiting and cruelty in the industry. The program showed footage of live piglets, possums and rabbits being fixed to mechanical lures and catapulted around tracks while being chased, and eventually killed, by dogs.

The program led to numerous animal cruelty charges, life bans from the industry and the creation of the taskforce. In Queensland, a total of 36 trainers have been suspended over the scandal, with six now issued with life bans from dog racing. The Queensland Government has also ordered an independent review of the state's greyhound industry to investigate how the practice went undetected.

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This industry is appalling in its callous approach to the welfare/suffering of animals. Like bull fighting, I'd be happy to see the end of it.
 

That's as disgusting as the humans who participate in these things...easy to love animals more than people. :mad:
 
The Greyhound dumping goes on in this country as well. Disgusting. I rescued a racing Greyhound about 15 years ago and had her for seven years until she died at 12 of cancer. My Dixie was just the sweetest dog ever. She was my miracle dog. We had just moved and my son`s friend accidentally let her out of the yard. She was gone for nine days-during a heat wave,no less-and then one night my daughter was on her way to the movies and saw her running on the freeway. We flew down there and were able to get her to jump into the car. It was nothing short of a miracle that she survived all those days without being hit.
 

You're an angel for rescuing Dixie Mrs.R, so glad that you were able to find her. We see many rescues that were dumped off at shelters after racing, so cruel to those sweet dogs. :(
 
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