Since 2023 alone, there have been multiple allegations of animal cruelty — including drone footage capturing dogs and puppies being punched, kicked and dragged on a prominent South Australian trainer’s property.
In Victoria, a veteran greyhound trainer and another industry were caught live baiting, and Tasmania’s ‘top’ greyhound trainer was investigated for live baiting after the tail of a pademelon was found attached to a lure arm on his run-down property where dogs were being kept in freezing conditions.
Despite ABC Investigations revealing the extreme cruelty Australian dogs are being subjected to after being exported to China as ‘breeder dogs’, the Australian greyhound racing industry opposed amending legislation to prevent greyhounds from being exported overseas.
What is perhaps most alarming is that a report by the outgoing Chief Veterinary Officer for Greyhound Racing New South Wales – home to more greyhound racing tracks than any other state – has alleged extreme, entrenched animal welfare issues across nearly every facet of the industry, including;
- Dogs being pushed to race at a “barbaric” rate contributing to an alarming increase in injuries
- Overbreeding of dogs to meet quotas leading to thousands of “exhausted” greyhounds being discarded “with no hope of being rehomed”
- Dogs born into the industry “generally live in substandard conditions” in industrial kennels
- Dogs injured on track continuing to be killed despite their injuries not being life-threatening
- An “appalling” level of distress seen in dogs in track kennels
- An “alarming” number of dogs discarded by the industry with severe health and behavioural issues, many requiring anti-anxiety medication due to “psychological trauma… endured during their racing lives”.
Despite these explosive allegations, the NSW Premier has committed to ongoing support of the state’s greyhound racing industry – undermining the findings of a recently-announced inquiry before it had even begun
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