Dog Racing is WRONG.
I hope that when everyone voted today, or earlier with their absentee ballots, that everyone votes yes on question three. My own boyfriend was stupid enough to not, because he chose to support the people who aid in the cruel acts performed on these dogs, rather than saving those poor and tortured animals.
What some facts?
Fact: Every year at dog race tracks around the country, over 800 serious accidents occur in which the dog is injured for life.
Fact: Out of these 800 accidents, 300 of them are fatal, usually resulting from a dog tripping on the track and snapping it's neck or spine as it goes flying across that sand and dirt ground.
Fact: For the remaining 500 who do not die, are either put down because they can no longer race, or are thrown out and giving to shelters.
Fact. Those who were lucky enough to be given to shelters get taken in by the Greyhound Rescue Committee, whom are constantly working to improve the lives of these dogs and reintroduce them to families who will love and take care of them.
Fact: For the dogs who do not get injured, they are left to live in tiny 4x2x3 metal wire crates, stacked on top of one another, left to live in these on feces in a dark and damp room under the tracks.
Now that you know this, would you really vote no on question three? I hope everyone voted to end the horrors committed on these dogs because they don't deserve it, and as stated in the united states constitutions, everyone deserves a chance to pursue happiness, and these dogs have that opportunity wrongfully taken away from them.
So cheers to those who voted yes on question three. You are helping those dogs get a better chance at life.
And to those who did not, you aided in prolonging the suffering of a helpless animal. There was nothing right about voting no on question three, and aiding in the suffering of a creature that does not even have a say in their own fate, it just wrong.
-Fiona Out
What some facts?
Fact: Every year at dog race tracks around the country, over 800 serious accidents occur in which the dog is injured for life.
Fact: Out of these 800 accidents, 300 of them are fatal, usually resulting from a dog tripping on the track and snapping it's neck or spine as it goes flying across that sand and dirt ground.
Fact: For the remaining 500 who do not die, are either put down because they can no longer race, or are thrown out and giving to shelters.
Fact. Those who were lucky enough to be given to shelters get taken in by the Greyhound Rescue Committee, whom are constantly working to improve the lives of these dogs and reintroduce them to families who will love and take care of them.
Fact: For the dogs who do not get injured, they are left to live in tiny 4x2x3 metal wire crates, stacked on top of one another, left to live in these on feces in a dark and damp room under the tracks.
Now that you know this, would you really vote no on question three? I hope everyone voted to end the horrors committed on these dogs because they don't deserve it, and as stated in the united states constitutions, everyone deserves a chance to pursue happiness, and these dogs have that opportunity wrongfully taken away from them.
So cheers to those who voted yes on question three. You are helping those dogs get a better chance at life.
And to those who did not, you aided in prolonging the suffering of a helpless animal. There was nothing right about voting no on question three, and aiding in the suffering of a creature that does not even have a say in their own fate, it just wrong.
-Fiona Out