I'm reeling from the $350 for euthanasia, but going to guess that that was just sloppy reporting and included the exam, x-rays, etc. It's always a tough call, major vet bills like that.
Believe it or not, Northern Ireland requires all greyhounds to wear a muzzle in public, and no more than two are allowed to be out in public in the same space at the same time. At the big greyhound event in Dewey beach, where there will be thousands of unmuzzled greyhounds walking the beach and town sidewalks at any given time, with nary a bark, snap or other issue, we had a greyhound welfare rep from Northern Ireland spend most of the weekend breaking down in tears at the sight of them all.
Now, of course, if someone had set a bunny lose on the beach...
There are a lot of people in the UK working to change public opinion, but it's an amazingly persistent prejudice. Although, even here, I still find articles/books written on dog breeds that talk about how much exercise greyhounds need. Say, whut?
Very interesting. The UK folks have a similar issue with rabies- an absolutely knee-jerk response that had a friend of mine saying that if rabies was really found in England that all the foxes would have to be killed. What? I said, there is a vaccination, you know, but that didn't penetrate. Anyway, that's another story
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Believe it or not, Northern Ireland requires all greyhounds to wear a muzzle in public, and no more than two are allowed to be out in public in the same space at the same time. At the big greyhound event in Dewey beach, where there will be thousands of unmuzzled greyhounds walking the beach and town sidewalks at any given time, with nary a bark, snap or other issue, we had a greyhound welfare rep from Northern Ireland spend most of the weekend breaking down in tears at the sight of them all.
Now, of course, if someone had set a bunny lose on the beach...
There are a lot of people in the UK working to change public opinion, but it's an amazingly persistent prejudice. Although, even here, I still find articles/books written on dog breeds that talk about how much exercise greyhounds need. Say, whut?
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