http://www.newsherald.com/news/track-88369-fort-walton.html
http://www.newsherald.com/news/dogs-88361-ebro-trainer.html
Why is anyone shocked? When you have animals exploited for money, this is what happens.
On racetracks, the horses are sold at auction to the "killers", transported and slaughtered in unspeakably horrible conditions and sent to Europe as a delicacy or for animal food.
At these dog tracks, which is why the Greyhound rescue groups began, the animals who couldn't perform at a profit were starved, electrocuted, kept in unbearably small cages with no affection and no care. Some were shot. Some were clubbed. They were tortured until they died. Check out Youtube.
When I arrived in the panhandle, I rescued a bloodhound (I'm a bloodhounder from way back) named Rosemary. She was living in a small kennel, had never been in a house. She was not hunted with the resident pack of deer dogs. At that time, it was legal to hunt deer with packs of hounds and I believe it has been stopped. But the dogs were bred and trained and some of the packs were not kept after hunting season. It was cheaper to start with a fresh pack of young dogs; why feed them over the winter? If they didn't hunt, they were either left behind in the woods or dumped along the roadsides and left to wander and starve or get hit by cars. The lucky ones were shot and left to rot.
Oh, and Rosemary learned to walk up and down stairs, not to be frightened on the slippery kitchen floor, to be housebroken, to lie down on a soft bed, never to be left outside in heat, cold or rain. A fast growing cancer took her life at a young age, but the time she spent "home", was the best that could be offered.
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