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posted on Jul. 7, 2016, at 5:02 a.m.
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NSW premier Mike Baird has announced the state will
“put an end to greyhound racing” after an inquiry
found “illegal and unconscionable activity, including
the slaughtering of tens of thousands of dogs.”
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NSW would be the first state in Australia to ban the practice but Baird stressed
greyhound racing was “legal in only eight countries around the world”.
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“We will develop a strategy to work with the RSPCA to manage the welfare of existing
greyhounds,” Baird said on Thursday.
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Here’s what the report found.
1. The mass killing of greyhounds.
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“In NSW in the last 12 years… somewhere between 48,891 and 68,448 dogs were
killed because they were considered too slow to pay their way or were unsuitable for
racing,” the report found.
“Apart from about 6% of the greyhounds [born] who have breeding value, the
remaining dogs have no commercial value for the industry after their racing careers
are over. Unless they are rehomed, they will probably be killed.”
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2. The widespread practice of “live baiting”.
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Few Australians can forget the secretly filmed
footage of greyhound trainers “blooding” their dogs
with live piglets, possums and rabbits, a practice
which has been criminalised for decades.
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confronting tapes including footage of a possum which was flung around a track 26
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But the report shows this practice is widespread.
“A trainer, who admitted to engaging in live baiting, testified that about 10-20% of
trainers engaged in live baiting,” the report found.
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3. The public has been deceived.
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“Greyhound Racing NSW had adopted a policy of deliberately misreporting the
extent of injuries suffered by greyhounds at racetracks,” the report found.
“The commission’s investigations uncovered evidence that Greyhound Racing
NSW has engaged in the deliberate misreporting to the public of the extent of
injuries suffered by greyhounds at race tracks,” the report said.
“Further, GRNSW has also deliberately failed to make available to the public – and
thus, in effect, concealed – information about deaths of greyhounds at race tracks,
both as to fatalities during races and dogs that have needed to be put down by the
on-track veterinarian as a result of catastrophic injuries suffered during a race.”
4. Rehoming efforts can’t keep up with the number of
greyhounds who need to be adopted.
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“NSW presently needs and, without a dramatic reduction of the race meetings that it
holds, will probably continue to need, 6,000 or more greyhounds to be [born)] each
year to maintain its racing schedules,” the report noted.
“However, the industry cannot, and will not be able to, find homes for somewhere
between 50% and 70% of these dogs.”
5. The greyhound industry only cares about the
greyhound industry.
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“Sanitising the information concerning injuries and omitting information concerning
the deaths of greyhounds was bad enough,” the report said.
“It constituted a deception of the public on matters that the public
was entitled to know.”
The report agreed with this statement by the Working Dog Alliance:
“GRNSW has only acknowledged its members and industry participants as
stakeholders.”
6. Trainers had been employing so-called “muscle
men” instead of qualified veterinarians.
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“The commission’s investigations revealed that ‘muscle men’ – unqualified persons
who hold themselves out as being able to treat injuries and illnesses of greyhounds –
play an increasingly significant role in the greyhound racing industry in NSW,” the
report said.
“A muscle man will manipulate a dog, crack its back and there’s nothing wrong with
the dog,” one trainer, who used muscle men, testified to the commission.
7. The industry is not capable of reforming.
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“It appears unlikely the issue of the large scale killing of healthy greyhounds by the
industry can be addressed successfully in the future,” the report noted.
“I feel much empathy for innocent trainers and those
who will lose their job or hobby as a result of this,”
Baird said on Thursday. “But we simply cannot and will
not stand-by and allow the widespread and systemic
mistreatment of animals.
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NOTE: The author of this report is the daughter of Stephen Rushton, SC, counsel
assisting the Commission.
Gina Rushton is a breaking news reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in Sydney.
Contact Gina Rushton at [email protected].
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