Join us in urging the Irish Sun newspaper to scrap a "Go greyhound racing" offer that it has announced for October https://www.thesun.ie/competitions/1593111/get-amazing-e1-daily-deals-in-every-copy-of-the-irish-sun-from-1st-october/

Given the appalling cruelty and killing involved in the rotten greyhound industry, the Irish Sun should not be encouraging readers to support it.

Shocking Irish Greyhound Board statistics confirm that in the past three and a half years alone, 1,369 greyhounds suffered injuries and 438 were killed at Irish tracks. The figures are based on "reported" injuries and deaths, suggesting that the actual number could be even higher. This does not include the greyhounds injured at tracks and later killed elsewhere, or the thousands of greyhounds who go missing each year - presumed killed when found to be too slow to win races.

In the first half of 2018, 163 greyhounds suffered injuries and 53 were killed at tracks around Ireland. The greyhounds sustained injuries to hocks, wrists, legs, toes, shoulders, necks, backs, tails and muscles.

Greyhounds are also dying in local dog pounds. 80 were destroyed in pounds last year, bringing to 2,729 the number of greyhounds killed in pounds here in the past eight years.

ACTION ALERT

Contact the Irish Sun now and urge them to show compassion for the dogs and scrap the offer.

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