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THE SHAMEFUL SHOOTING OF DOGS IN THE GREYHOUND RACING INDUSTRY…

Greyhounds not quick enough to win races are KILLED

In the cruel greyhound racing industry, dogs not quick enough to win are KILLED. This includes greyhounds being shot dead. Greyhound racing has been condemned as the only racing with a "finishing gun". Don't support this deplorable industry. Don't go greyhound racing.THE SHAMEFUL SHOOTING OF DOGS IN THE GREYHOUND RACING INDUSTRY…"I've seen dogs being shot. It has to be done as there's too many of them to rehome" – Irish greyhound trainer."We believe there are probably 10,000 greyhounds put to sleep every year. They can be killed in all sorts of fashions. We've had so many instances of finding them shot, ears cut off, drowned." Limerick Animal Welfare's Marion Fitzgibbon in an interview on RTE's Prime Time, March 2017https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIUkAGa708s"We do know that there are people who are getting rid of their dogs, who are shooting their dogs, who are using bolt guns, who are selling their dogs to countries where there aren't adequate welfare legislations in place to deal with those dogs." Una Jansen, Greyhound Rescue Association of Ireland speaking at a meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture (2nd May 2017)Just under 3,000 [greyhounds] were destroyed in Irish dog pounds between 2010 and 2014 but the Greyhound Rescue Association Ireland [GRAI] believes thousands of others don’t make it to the pounds. “They're brought to the vet to be put down or else we know there are unscrupulous owners and trainers who take other measures, such as the greyhounds that were shot in Limerick four years ago,” GRAI spokesman Richard King said. (from "38 greyhounds are being put down a month in Ireland", TheJournal.ie, 23 May 2016)Gardai are investigating the discovery of at least six greyhound carcasses found dumped at a disused quarry in Limerick. It is believed the dogs, found in Ballyagran, were shot in the head. (from "Greyhound carcasses found dumped in Limerick quarry", RTE News, 13 April 2012)Earlier this year in April, multiple greyhounds were discovered shot and dumped into an abandoned quarry on private property. The ear registration numbers allowed a tracing back to the registered owners of these dogs. After much persistence by Marion Fitzgibbon, Co-Founder of the American European Greyhound Alliance and Director of the Limerick Animal Sanctuary and her staff, both media and police attention resulted in action on the case…It's the same old story. Someone needed to get rid of their extra and 'useless' greyhound. Perhaps a dog no longer an asset as breeding stock, a failures on the track or past their prime of two or three years old. The dog was only another mouth to feed in tough economic times. Maybe on disposal day each dog got a clean shot to the head or maybe not so lucky and not so clean a shot. Then kicked, like garbage, over the edge onto the pile below to join other dogs from other days of killing. (American European Greyhound Alliance, 2012)"The owner of greyhounds that were shot and dumped in a quarry in County Limerick refused to tell Gardai who killed the animals, a court has heard. Six greyhounds were found dumped in undergrowth in Ballyagran on April 10, 2012, and two of the dogs were subsequently traced back to John Corkerey, aged 54, of Love Lane, Charleville. Mr Corkerey was fined at Newcastle West Court after pleading guilty to offences under the Welfare of Greyhounds Act (2011). The court heard that Mr Corkerey had arranged for a third party to destroy the dogs after they failed to show promise at racing trials, and that he had “no problem” with the animals being shot." from "Greyhounds shot and dumped in Limerick quarry after poor trials", Limerick Leader, 2 May 2013In 2006, there was a national outcry over the treatment of racing greyhounds after The Sunday Times reported that more than 10,000 healthy greyhounds had been shot and buried in a mass grave in County Durham over a period of 15 years. from "The mystery of the 1,000 greyhounds who retire and then vanish", Independent (UK), 25 October 2014ACTION ALERT Don't attend greyhound races or community/school/GAA fund-raisers held at greyhound tracks (these are a significant source of funding for the cruel greyhound industry).The Irish Government has handed over nearly a quarter of a billion euro to the cruel greyhound industry since 2001. It is poised to pay out an additional €16 million in funding for 2018. Greyhound racing should not be funded by the people of Ireland, the majority of whom have no interest in it and are rightly opposed to an industry in which dogs are injured, dumped and killed. Next month, TDs will vote on the payment of the latest grant via the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2018. It is vital that you contact your local TDs and demand that they vote against it. Find TD contact details at http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp?housetype=0&HouseNum=32&disp=memAn Taoiseach, Leo VaradkarGovernment Buildings,Upper Merrion St, Dublin 2Telephone: +353 (0)1-6194020Email: taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie, leo.varadkar@oireachtas.ieTweet to: @campaignforLeoLeave a comment on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/campaignforleo/Paschal Donohoe TDMinister for FinanceEmail: paschal.donohoe@oireachtas.ie, minister@per.gov.iePhone: +353 (0)1 6045810Leave a comment on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaschalDonohoe/Tweet to @PaschaldMichael Creed TDMinister for AgricultureDepartment of AgricultureAgriculture House,Kildare Street, Dublin 2.Email: michael.creed@oir.ieTel: +353 (0)1-607 2000 or LoCall 1890-200510.Fax: +353 (0)1-661 1013.Leave a comment on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michaelcreedtdTweet to @creedcnwPlease sign and share our petitionIrish Government: Stop Giving Millions of Euro to Cruel Greyhound Industryhttps://www.change.org/p/irish-government-stop-giving-millions-of-euro-to-cruel-greyhound-industry

Posted by Ban Bloodsports on Samstag, 11. November 2017
(full and integral post) In the cruel greyhound racing industry, dogs not quick enough to win are KILLED. This includes greyhounds being shot dead. Greyhound racing has been condemned as the only racing with a “finishing gun”. Don’t support this deplorable industry. Don’t go greyhound racing. THE SHAMEFUL SHOOTING OF DOGS IN THE GREYHOUND RACING INDUSTRY… “I’ve seen dogs being shot. It has to be done as there’s too many of them to rehome” – Irish greyhound trainer. “We believe there are probably 10,000 greyhounds put to sleep every year. They can be killed in all sorts of fashions. We’ve had so many instances of finding them shot, ears cut off, drowned.” Limerick Animal Welfare’s Marion Fitzgibbon in an interview on RTE’s Prime Time, March 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIUkAGa708s
We do know that there are people who are getting rid of their dogs, who are shooting their dogs, who are using bolt guns, who are selling their dogs to countries where there aren’t adequate welfare legislations in place to deal with those dogs.”
Una Jansen, Greyhound Rescue Association of Ireland speaking at a meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture (2nd May 2017) Just under 3,000 [greyhounds] were destroyed in Irish dog pounds between 2010 and 2014 but the Greyhound Rescue Association Ireland [GRAI] believes thousands of others don’t make it to the pounds. “They’re brought to the vet to be put down or else we know there are unscrupulous owners and trainers who take other measures, such as the greyhounds that were shot in Limerick four years ago,” GRAI spokesman Richard King said. (from “38 greyhounds are being put down a month in Ireland”, TheJournal.ie, 23 May 2016) Gardai are investigating the discovery of at least six greyhound carcasses found dumped at a disused quarry in Limerick. It is believed the dogs, found in Ballyagran, were shot in the head. (from “Greyhound carcasses found dumped in Limerick quarry”, RTE News, 13 April 2012) Earlier this year in April, multiple greyhounds were discovered shot and dumped into an abandoned quarry on private property. The ear registration numbers allowed a tracing back to the registered owners of these dogs. After much persistence by Marion Fitzgibbon, Co-Founder of the American European Greyhound Alliance and Director of the Limerick Animal Sanctuary and her staff, both media and police attention resulted in action on the case…It’s the same old story. Someone needed to get rid of their extra and ‘useless’ greyhound. Perhaps a dog no longer an asset as breeding stock, a failures on the track or past their prime of two or three years old. The dog was only another mouth to feed in tough economic times. Maybe on disposal day each dog got a clean shot to the head or maybe not so lucky and not so clean a shot. Then kicked, like garbage, over the edge onto the pile below to join other dogs from other days of killing. (American European Greyhound Alliance, 2012) “The owner of greyhounds that were shot and dumped in a quarry in County Limerick refused to tell Gardai who killed the animals, a court has heard. Six greyhounds were found dumped in undergrowth in Ballyagran on April 10, 2012, and two of the dogs were subsequently traced back to John Corkerey, aged 54, of Love Lane, Charleville. Mr Corkerey was fined at Newcastle West Court after pleading guilty to offences under the Welfare of Greyhounds Act (2011). The court heard that Mr Corkerey had arranged for a third party to destroy the dogs after they failed to show promise at racing trials, and that he had “no problem” with the animals being shot.” from “Greyhounds shot and dumped in Limerick quarry after poor trials”, Limerick Leader, 2 May 2013 In 2006, there was a national outcry over the treatment of racing greyhounds after The Sunday Times reported that more than 10,000 healthy greyhounds had been shot and buried in a mass grave in County Durham over a period of 15 years. from “The mystery of the 1,000 greyhounds who retire and then vanish”, Independent (UK), 25 October 2014 ACTION ALERT Don’t attend greyhound races or community/school/GAA fund-raisers held at greyhound tracks (these are a significant source of funding for the cruel greyhound industry). The Irish Government has handed over nearly a quarter of a billion euro to the cruel greyhound industry since 2001. It is poised to pay out an additional €16 million in funding for 2018. Greyhound racing should not be funded by the people of Ireland, the majority of whom have no interest in it and are rightly opposed to an industry in which dogs are injured, dumped and killed. Next month, TDs will vote on the payment of the latest grant via the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2018. It is vital that you contact your local TDs and demand that they vote against it. Find TD contact details at http://www.oireachtas.ie/members-hist/default.asp… An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar Government Buildings, Upper Merrion St, Dublin 2 Telephone: +353 (0)1-6194020 Email: [email protected], [email protected] Tweet to: @campaignforLeo Leave a comment on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/campaignforleo/ Paschal Donohoe TD Minister for Finance Email: [email protected], [email protected] Phone: +353 (0)1 6045810 Leave a comment on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaschalDonohoe/ Tweet to @Paschald Michael Creed TD Minister for Agriculture Department of Agriculture Agriculture House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. Email: [email protected] Tel: +353 (0)1-607 2000 or LoCall 1890-200510. Fax: +353 (0)1-661 1013. Leave a comment on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michaelcreedtd Tweet to @creedcnw Please sign and share our petition Irish Government: Stop Giving Millions of Euro to Cruel Greyhound Industry https://www.change.org/p/irish-government-stop-giving-milli…   Link: https://www.facebook.com/banbloodsports/videos/1483736158408604/ Source: Ban Bloodsports © All rights reserved  

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Presidente e socio fondatore di Pet levrieri dalla data di fondazione. Nella vita svolge la professione di psicologa e psicoterapeuta e di formatrice. E’ laureata in filosofia e in psicologia. Per crescita personale si è formata e diplomata come educatrice cinofila presso la scuola SIUA. Ha svolto il corso professionalizzante per la gestione della ricerca e del soccorso di animali smarriti, organizzato da Pet Detective. Ha iniziato a scoprire quello che accade ai greyhound nel racing in seguito all’adozione della sua prima grey, Silky, nel 2008. Da qui il suo impegno civile antiracing e anticaccia in difesa dei greyhound, dei galgo e dei lurcher. Sposata con Massimo Greco, altro socio fondatore di Pet levrieri, condivide con lui questo impegno.

Insieme condividono la loro vita con un gruppo di levrieri rescue e una segugia. Svolge questo ruolo in maniera totalmente gratuita.

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Vice presidente di Pet levrieri. Nella vita è Direttore delle Risorse Umane di una multinazionale del settore IT. 
Per passione personale nel 2020 ha conseguito il titolo di educatore cinofilo presso la scuola cinofila Il Mio Cane.
Ha partecipato al corso di gestione della ricerca e del soccorso di animali smarriti organizzato da Pet Detective.
Nel marzo 2014 adotta “per caso” Sandy, greyhound irlandese, e scopre la dura realtà dei levrieri sfruttati nelle corse e nella caccia decidendo così di impegnarsi concretamente nell’Associazione.
Coordina il gruppo di ricerca dei levrieri smarriti, è membro del Gruppo Adozioni e partecipa come portavoce di Pet levrieri ad eventi di informazione e divulgazione delle attività dell’associazione. 
Vive tra Milano e la Valsassina con il marito Massimiliano, ha due figli ormai adulti, Giorgia e Marco, e tre lurcher irlandesi: Robin, Coco e Lucy – e Sandy sempre nel cuore.
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Vice Presidente e socio fondatore di Pet levrieri, laureata in scienze politiche internazionali, gestisce un’impresa di consulenze turistiche. In Pet Levrieri si occupa in particolare delle relazioni con la Spagna e dei profili dei galgo e si reca più volte all’anno nei rifugi spagnoli per conoscere i cani e stilarne i profili. Fa parte del team che amministra sito e pagine Fb dell’associazione.
Ha adottato la galga Debra nel 2011. Venire a contatto con la realtà dei levrieri rescue l’ha spinta ad approfondire il discorso e a impegnarsi attivamente a favore dei grey, galgo e lurcher sfruttati e maltrattati in tutto il mondo. Oltre a Debra vive con due cani meticci, salvati da situazioni di abbandono.
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Membro del consiglio direttivo e socio fondatore di Per levrieri, dove si occupa dell’organizzazione logistica degli eventi e del merchandising. Nella vita è titolare di un laboratorio odontotecnico dal 1990. Da sempre appassionato di cani, il suo primo cane è stato un setter irlandese. Sposato con Marianna Capurso, anche lei socia fondatrice di Pet levrieri, condivide con lei l’impegno antirancing e anticaccia in difesa dei levrieri. Accanto al presidente di Pet levrieri, ha partecipato alla prima conferenza mondiale sui greyhound in Florida nel 2016. Ha partecipato a molti corsi organizzati da Think Dog e Siua. Perle è stata la sua prima greyhound. Nella sua vita ora ci sono Peig e Inta, due lurcher, e Karim, greyhound salvato dal cinodromo di Macao, e Ricky, un pinscher, che è la mascotte di tutto il gruppo. Svolge i suoi incarichi in Pet levrieri in maniera totalmente gratuita.

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Membro del consiglio direttivo di Pet levrieri. Nella vita è una pasticciera. Dal 2014 a seguito dell’adozione di Rosie, una greyhound irlandese ha conosciuto la realtà dello sfruttamento dei levrieri. Da qui l’impegno in associazione. Coordina il gruppo facebook di Pet levrieri, gestisce il canale istituzionale Twitter, ed è membro del gruppo adozioni. Condivide la vita con il compagno Stefano, socio e volontario di Pet levrieri, James greyhound salvato in Irlanda e Jasmine greyhound sopravvissuta al cinodromo di Macao, nel cuore portano Rosie e Mags greyhound salvate in Irlanda. Svolge i suoi incarichi in Pet levrieri in maniera totalmente gratuita.

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Socio fondatore di Pet levrieri, si è occupato in associazione, a titolo puramente gratuito, di trasporti, rapporti con le autorità veterinarie e della comunicazione esterna, curando numerosi articoli sulla situazione dei greyhound e dei galgo nel mondo. Ha partecipato a numerose manifestazioni antiracing in Irlanda e Gran Bretagna. Dal 2022 fa parte del Board di GREY2K USA Worldwide, la più importante organizzazione antiracing mondiale. 
Laureato in filosofia e in Psicologia della comunicazione, insegna filosofia e storia nella scuola superiore di secondo grado; per crescita personale si è formato e diplomato come educatore cinofilo presso la scuola SIUA. 
Appassionato di musica, in particolare rock e irlandese, dal 2008 condivide le sue giornate, insieme alla moglie Stefania Traini, con levrieri rescue e un “pizzico” di segugi. Perché nella varietà si fanno più esperienze.
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Membro del consiglio direttivo di Pet Levrieri.
Dopo il liceo linguistico inizia a lavorare in banca ma dopo la nascita della terza figlia decide di volersi dedicare esclusivamente alla sua numerosa famiglia.
Il suo primo cane è stato Otello, un mix labrador-alano, poi è arrivata Gina, un bovaro svizzero.
Viene a conoscenza dello sfruttamento dei levrieri per caso attraverso un articolo trovato in rete e nel novembre 2015 partecipa ad un arrivo di Galgo di Pet Levrieri. Christa, una galga ancora senza famiglia, si butta tra le sue braccia per farsi coccolare. Dieci giorni dopo andrà a prenderla presso la famiglia foster e la porterà a casa. Da questo incontro speciale nasce il suo impegno concreto all’interno dell’Associazione.
Fa parte del gruppo adozioni e si occupa prevalentemente delle richieste estere (Svizzera, Austria, Germania).
A settembre 2018 si reca, insieme a Stefania Traini, a Macau per fotografare e stilare i profili dei cani che verranno in Italia. Qui, incrocia lo sguardo di Tamoko, che decide di adottare appena sarà pronto per il volo che lo porterà a Milano.
Vive a Lugano, Svizzera, con il marito Andrea e i figli Giulia, Alyssa, Cecilia e Tommaso. Membri della numerosa famiglia, oltre a Tamoko, sono anche Harry e Bob, lurcher irlandesi e Paco un meticcio salvato dalle strade di Napoli.
Ama trascorrere le giornate tra montagne e boschi oppure con un bel libro in mano.
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