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In Cold Blood - A leaflet summarising the horrible facts of what happens to greyhounds BEFORE and AFTER their racing life.
Please print it off, photocopy it and hand it round to everyone you know at home and at work etc...Thank You.

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In Cold Blood

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Have you ever wondered what happens to greyhounds before and after their racing life? Here are just some of the facts about the greyhound racing industry –

• Greyhound puppies are routinely killed before the age of 1 year if they fail to meet racing standards - this is approx. about one third (10,000) every year

• Most greyhounds are retired before the age of 3yrs - the majority of these are then abandoned or killed

• Around 30,000 greyhounds are registered every year for racing in Britain and Ireland

• In one year alone, 55 greyhounds were used for vivisection in the UK

• Thousands of greyhounds have been found disposed of in the most barbaric ways, some of these include –
• Hanging from trees - Shot and drowned - Battered to death with a shovel - Thrown from fast moving cars on motorways
  Abandoned on wasteground where they are later found dead from starvation

• In Spain it is the centuries’– old tradition of hunters (galgueros) to hang, torture and maroon their greyhounds at the end of the 4 month hunting/coursing season in mid-January each year – EVERY YEAR

• Greyhounds in Spain are kept in diabolical conditions – confined in cages 1 metre square for 23 hours a day. They are starved, dehydrated, pumped full of drugs & are left to suffer with untreated injuries

• The Federacion Espanola de Galgos in Madrid is a member of the World Greyhound Racing Federation, with Britain, Ireland, USA & Australia.This federation has shown little interest in the barbaric treatment of greyhounds

HOW YOU CAN HELP

• Rehome a rescue greyhound – they make wonderful, loving, gentle, lazy pets that require little exercise, are great with children and like to sleep a lot!!

• For more info on 'Greyhounds as Pets' contact Diane at 'Give A Greyhound A Home' (GAGAH) on
  Tel: 01771 644059. You can also e-mail her at -Pat.Grant@gpct.Grampian.scot.nhs.uk
  or visit the GAGAH website at - www.dogsworldwide.com/gagah.htm

• PHOTOCOPY THIS LEAFLET & pass it to e.g. friends & family, your work etc.

• Make a donation by contacting : Give A Greyhound A Home (GAGAH) on 01771 644059

• Contact 'Give A Greyhound A Home' to see how you can help raise public awareness on the 'plight of the greyhound' and their suitability as pets.
  Action has to be taken to stop the unacceptable treatment of these beautiful, graceful creatures.
  We are supposed to be a nation of dog lovers - IF SO - we cannot stand by and IGNORE these barbaric facts

  YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
  PLEASE HELP THE GREYHOUNDS IN ANY WAY YOU CAN
  SEE: Help Support the GAGAH Dogs

  When your thinking about a new pet and visiting your rescue centre PLEASE take time to talk to the greyhounds and SERIOUSLY consider rehoming one.
  You won’t regret it – once you have one – you’ll get hooked and will probably want another.

We wish to point out that not ALL greyhound racing owners inhumanely kill and badly abuse their dogs –
BUT, sadly thousands of owners do.
Thank you for taking the time to read this information.

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