Please stop using greyhound racing to raise funds, it reflects badly on your charity to be seen to support this cruel sport, where thousands of dogs every year are unnecessarily killed.
The Issue
Although Sue Ryder is an excellent charity, we feel that by using race nights at Peterborough (or other) greyhound tracks, they are supporting what many people view as a cruel and barbaric 'sport' (which is really no more than a money making industry), where many pups are killed before they get a chance to race because they are not fast enough. All too often, dogs who do make the grade can be badly treated, beaten, starved, locked up 23 hours a day in their own excrement and when they break a leg racing, or stop winning, are often even more cruelly disposed of by being shot with a bolt gun, bludgeoned, drowned, starved to death or simply dumped with their ears cut off to destroy the evidence of their tattoos.
Thousands of greyhounds sustain treatable but 'career' ending injuries on the dangerously configured tracks - which results in hundreds being destroyed annually and in compliance with the Rules of Racing. However - the self regulating industry refuses to publish injury and destruction data compiled from their Retirement Forms.
We feel that, by supporting this so-called 'sport' and contributing towards it by hiring greyhound racing venues and inviting people to fundraise at race nights, it is essentially raising money for charity through the suffering of animals - in other words, we feel that Sue Ryder actively support animal cruelty through their contributions to this industry. We do not feel that the money they have raised in this way is any mitigation for continuing to do so, as there are many other events that they could support and raise a similar amount of money at.
We feel that this is both ethically and morally wrong and that if people receiving care from them knew their care was paid for with blood money, they would be disgusted. We therefore call upon Sue Ryder to find another way to raise what we appreciate are much needed funds, and to condemn the exploitation of these beautiful and gentle creatures - many of the dogs who have been lucky enough to be rescued never get over the trauma and physical injuries they have been subjected to during their 'career'.
The Issue
Although Sue Ryder is an excellent charity, we feel that by using race nights at Peterborough (or other) greyhound tracks, they are supporting what many people view as a cruel and barbaric 'sport' (which is really no more than a money making industry), where many pups are killed before they get a chance to race because they are not fast enough. All too often, dogs who do make the grade can be badly treated, beaten, starved, locked up 23 hours a day in their own excrement and when they break a leg racing, or stop winning, are often even more cruelly disposed of by being shot with a bolt gun, bludgeoned, drowned, starved to death or simply dumped with their ears cut off to destroy the evidence of their tattoos.
Thousands of greyhounds sustain treatable but 'career' ending injuries on the dangerously configured tracks - which results in hundreds being destroyed annually and in compliance with the Rules of Racing. However - the self regulating industry refuses to publish injury and destruction data compiled from their Retirement Forms.
We feel that, by supporting this so-called 'sport' and contributing towards it by hiring greyhound racing venues and inviting people to fundraise at race nights, it is essentially raising money for charity through the suffering of animals - in other words, we feel that Sue Ryder actively support animal cruelty through their contributions to this industry. We do not feel that the money they have raised in this way is any mitigation for continuing to do so, as there are many other events that they could support and raise a similar amount of money at.
We feel that this is both ethically and morally wrong and that if people receiving care from them knew their care was paid for with blood money, they would be disgusted. We therefore call upon Sue Ryder to find another way to raise what we appreciate are much needed funds, and to condemn the exploitation of these beautiful and gentle creatures - many of the dogs who have been lucky enough to be rescued never get over the trauma and physical injuries they have been subjected to during their 'career'.
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Petition created on 18 April 2014