The results of a Department of Agriculture public consultation on surgical artificial insemination "indicate surgical AI should be prohibited in all dogs, INCLUDING GREYHOUNDS".
The revelation is contained in the minutes of a meeting of the Advisory Council on Companion Animal Welfare that took place in September 2024.
Agriculture Minister Martin Heydon must urgently act to ban this painful & highly invasive procedure on all dogs.
Surgical insemination involves anaesthetising the female dog, making an incision in her abdomen and lifting out her uterus before semen is injected into it with a needle. The uterus is then put back and the surgery area stitched closed.
Surgical AI on dogs is already against the law in the UK, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands.
It has been shamefully performed hundreds of times on greyhounds in Ireland since 2019 alone – a reminder that the pursuit of prize-money comes before the welfare of dogs. Not even cutting into the bodies of greyhounds in a bid to produce winning litters is off-limits in the cruel greyhound "industry".
ACTION ALERT
Contact Agriculture Minister Martin Heydon to demand an urgent ban on surgical AI on all dogs, including greyhounds.
Martin Heydon TD
Minister for Agriculture
Tel: 01-618 3017
Email: minister@agriculture.gov.ie; martin.heydon@oireachtas.ie
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/martinheydonfg
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/martinheydonfg
SEE ALSO
Vets MUST NOT perform painful surgical artificial insemination on (most) dogs
https://banbloodsports.wordpress.com/2024/05/15/vets-must-not-perform-painful-surgical-artificial-insemination-on-most-dogs/
Pete the Vet: Greyhounds must not be excluded from surgical AI ban
https://banbloodsports.wordpress.com/2023/05/12/pete-the-vet-greyhounds-must-not-be-excluded-from-surgical-ai-ban/
Ban on surgical AI in dogs ‘will be implemented’
https://banbloodsports.wordpress.com/2023/04/14/ban-on-surgical-ai-in-dogs-will-be-implemented/