Please find below extracts from 4 forum postings made yesterday (Sunday 11 Nov 07) by a greyhound breeder living in Ireland (Co Cork). He posts under the name Richard N. Can you please forward to everyone on your email listing. We know what these people are like but it’s good to hear this from the horse’s mouth so to speak.We apologise to our suporters for any offence caused by the foul language being used by this person. Also I have made no attempt to correct the grammar or punctuation, everything is as it came to me.
Man admits cruelty to Greyhounds.
You will always get people mistreat animals why constantly single out the greyhound?
“There are for more animals mistreated and I don't see anything on forums about these animals? Oh I forget, people eat them a lot for their Sunday dinner. Yes it is Sunday and my Mrs just bought two medium chickens from Dunnes Supermarket, do we care how they were treated? No, what we care about is two for the price of 1, one is now frozen and the other is about 30 minutes from being cooked and in my belly.
“Why don't you anti's feck off and get yourself involved with world issues of poverty and cruelty to kids,…
“I have two bitches (greyhounds) in my garage outside, some would say that's cruel making them live outside! I wil say go and feckin mind your own business and get a life!
“If I want to have my bitches put down I will, just like the farmer down the road if he has his sheep dog put down or kills one of his pigs, that ain't my business and it ain't no business of any anti.
“I think you all live in cloud cuckoo land if you think there aren't hundreds of greys put to sleep before they even reach the track in the UK. Hundreds of pups are to slow to grade, some don't chase others fight, injuries as pups etc etc. That is a fact, if you don't like it get out of the game.
“I am a realist A**** and I am also knowledgeable enough to know that we pander to the anti's to much. Feck em! Let them come to my place here in Cork and see how my pups are reared and how my broods live their lives. I'd love to take out an anti down to the forest I go to every day with my pups in the hope my pups catch sight of something and chase it down and kill it. Sorry if that offends you but my pups are being bred to chase, and hunt and eventually show enough courage on a track to go through the rigours of racing.
“Fecks sake a greyhound is what it is. If you don't like the hard facts of quarry being hunted by greys or any other hunting dog then I think you is in the wrong game.
“I breed my pups If they don't or can't race then they have to go. Hard but true and not easy for me to take that trip to the vets but alas it has to be done otherwise before to long if every breeder were to keep every pup alive there would be thousands more greys being given away to abusers and the like because it would not be possible to rehome every one of them without real retirement options in place.
“Not only that there are still a great number of people, certainly in Ireland that see their greys as livestock and no more than that. A few have them rehomed but the majority are put down after their use is over. Again, hard true fact. “And don't tell me that the majority of BAGS trainers see their inmates as anything other than livestock? I doubt the majority of BAGS dogs get a daily gallop out in a field or a hunt in a forest, more like 10 minutes emptying out twice a day and a trip to the local track once a week running lame for £15 to line the pocket of a caring Bookmaker
“I'm so glad I moved away from England. Where I live now there are folk out hunting with dogs most night's. Nobody where I live bothers the hunter or his dogs, in fact they are mostly welcomed onto their land to hunt.
“Our vet recognizes and readily accepts that my greys are bred for a purpose and are not pets. Whatever anti thought of the slogan "Greyhounds make great Pets" very clever, it's been dished out to the public so much they only associate the words Greyhound and Pet and there is your problem, the public now see greys as pets!
"btw My chicken was very tasty. Do I stop to think what kind of a life did it have? No, I am a human and my need is greater than the chickens. Forgive me for being so uncaring towards the chicken.”