USA - Greyhound racing could end in Florida!

More good news from the USA.

See the links at http://www.grey2kusa.org/action/states/fl.html

Demo at Derby Lane dog track, St Petersburg, Florida

UPDATE on greyhounds being sent to China - please help again

Important message below from Kerry Greyhound Connection
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We have received the e-mail below from Angela Yardley,  and are passing on the information. There is an example letter below for you to use or to use the information in it to write your own letter.  There is also a petition. Please act now.  We all need to work together to try to prevent this appalling situation becoming a death sentence for so many Irish greyhounds.

The Kerry Greyhounds Team


Please write to Simon Coveney - e-mail and letter to use (if you wish) below. Also please forward this to as many people as possible. Things appear to be moving along and it is vital we register our concern yet again. Thank you

Urgent Irish Greyhound Board/China

In light of recent reports that the Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) have had talks with Chinese investors about the establishment of a Greyhound industry in China, I have been informed that an official proposal has now been submitted to the Dept of Agriculture in Ireland. The proposal asks for approval to set up greyhound racing in China including the exportation of Irish dogs.

I am now urging everyone to write to the Dept of Agriculture in Ireland (Simon.coveney@oir.ie) to express your deep concern about this issue (below is a letter template, if required).

Thank you for your support!

Care2 have also launched a petition against this proposal:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/3/say-no-to-greyhound-exports-to-china/

Re: Irish Greyhound Board involvement with Greyhound Racing in China

Dear Simon Coveney

I am writing to you about my concerns in relation to the involvement of the Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) in talks with a Chinese delegation concerning the establishment of a greyhound industry in China. I am particularly worried that this project may include the export of Irish greyhounds.

I consider this initiative by the IGB to be ill-advised and a massive step backwards in achieving a well regulated and safe environment for greyhounds both in Ireland and elsewhere in the world. The idea of sending greyhounds to China stands in stark contrast to the letter and spirit of the recently drafted Welfare of Greyhounds Bill 2010, which was finalised by the Department of Agriculture following extensive consultation with the greyhound industry and the welfare community.

As a concerned individual who believes in the welfare of dogs I want to seem regulation of the greyhound industry with better welfare provision for greyhounds, during breeding, training, kennelling, racing, transportation and retirement. Despite the best intentions of the IGB I believe this will be impossible to monitor in China, a country where there is no legislative protection for greyhounds.

I respectfully ask that you intervene in this matter in order to prevent a situation which will reflect poorly on Ireland, having already received global condemnation with regards to this matter and most importantly which will adversely impact the welfare of Irish greyhounds.

I look forward to your response.

Yours sincerely,

Irish Greyhound Export to China...proposal is moving ahead...URGENT action needed

Please read and act on the important message below from Greyhound Action Ireland
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Many people involved in welfare and who are greyhound "owners" have been sending emails and letters to the Irish government to oppose the idea of sending greyhounds to China, and there have also been demonstrations at Irish embassies in several countries. This has had some affect on the Department of Agriculture, which very recently received a formal proposal from the Irish Greyhound Board to consider the China project.

However, it was learned TODAY that Adrian Neilan, the CEO of the Irish Greyhound Board, was at the government offices in Dublin lobbying for the government to sign off and give approval or commitment for the project. He is under pressure from the Chinese investors to get this underway immediately.

We need an ocean of reasonable and rational letters and emails to be sent to the powers that be in order to have any chance of not letting our beautiful greyhounds be sent to a place where there is no future for them, no comfort, not a chance in hell for them to ever have a good life of any kind.

There is no need to convince you with photos and videos showing unspeakable atrocities being done to dogs there - you can find these yourself on the internet. You will then know what sort of future China holds for our greyhounds, and it is not a place to send a dog.

I urge you to please, tonight or tomorrow, send a letter or email to the following people so that they hear our voices and will not overlook the welfare side of this issue. Ireland has been in the news too many times now for welfare issues, from the New York Times' coverage of the dreadful treatment of horses to Ireland's reputation as "the puppy farm capital of Europe", we don't want to also be known as the place that sent its greyhounds to a country with no animal welfare practice in place, where there is no overarching regulation of the veterinary profession, where even Australia does not choose to deal with the Chinese on this issue. We have only in recent years just managed for the racetracks in Spain to be closed down.....now we have China.

Please don't let our greyhounds be sent there. It will be hell on earth for them.

Please write to all 3 people:

Mr Simon Coveney
Minister for Agriculture
Agriculture House
Kildare St
Dublin 2.
Ireland
minister@agriculture.gov.ie

Shane McEntee
Minister of State at the Dept of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
same postal address as above
shane.mcentee@finegael.ie

Taoiseach Enda Kenny (taoiseach is Irish for Prime Minister)
Department of the Taoiseach
Government Buildings
Upper Merrion Street
Dublin 2
taoiseach@taoiseach.gov.ie

Call to Action: Dublin SPCA asks supporters to Lobby for Greyhound protection

Urgent Call for Action: Irish Greyhounds need Your Help to prevent exportation to China

See http://www.dspca.ie/cat_news_detail.jsp?itemID=1711 for more information.

No Irish greyhounds to China! - London demo photos needed

If you're going to the Irish Embassy demonstration in London on Saturday (April 9th) and have a digital camera, it would be really helpful if you could take some good quality (high res) photos of the demo and e-mail them to Greyhound Action Ireland's co-ordinator, Bernie Wright, at bigbrownrat@gmail.com as soon as possible afterwards, so she can supply them to the Irish media.

Many thanks.

Irish greyhounds to China - Contact the IGB members - Bring your opposition home!

We have received the message below from a supporter in Ireland.
Please be polite, at all times, in your communications with IGB officials.

GUILTY OF CRUELTY.

THE IGB AND WHO THEY ARE.

These people want to send Irish greyhounds to China.
Let them know you disagree!
The Irish Greyhound Board are willing to trade Greyhound lives for profit,  and they are now trying to export gentle Irish greyhounds to China to be abused and killed when they lose races.

IGB boss Adrian Neilan - wants to send greyhounds to suffer and die

ADRIAN NEILAN,   Curraghchase, Adare, Co Limerick. Phone 061392602
BILLY DWYER,   Kilrush, Thurles, Co Tipperary.  Phone 050421848
TIM GILBERT,  63 Taney Avenue ,Dublin 14 phone 01 2987267
TERESA WALL,  Blackrath, Colbinstown, Co. Kildare.
DANIEL REILLY, Tara house,Tara, Navan, Co Meath.
TONY MC KENNA, Ballyhaden, Borrisokere. Co Tipperary, Phone 067 27221
PAT HERBERT regulations Apt 1. The Belfrey, Model Farm Road. Co Cork.

Contact these people asking them to stop this sick plan.

No Irish greyhounds to China! - Posters and leaflets to download

Posters and leaflets are now available to download and print out for distribution and putting up in vets, sympathetic shops, libraries etc.

Please spread news of this vital campaign as far and wide as possible.

Posters at:-
http://tinyurl.com/IrelandChinaPoster
http://tinyurl.com/IrelandChinaPoster2

Poster advertising next Saturday's London demo:-
http://tinyurl.com/IrelandChinaLondonDemoPoster


Leaflets at:-
http://tinyurl.com/IrelandChinaLeaflet
http://tinyurl.com/IrelandChinaLeaflet2 (poster2 above can be used as front for this one)

No Irish greyhounds to China! - Dublin demo photos and videos on-line

Over 70 people and about 10 dogs, mostly greyhounds, took part in a demonstration in Dublin on Saturday, March 19th against the proposed export of Irish greyhounds to China.

Photos and videos of the demo are at http://tinyurl.com/DublinGreyhoundExportsDemo and http://pix.ie/sensibleken/album/404974

Edinburgh demo against Irish greyhound exports to China

Demonstration outside Irish Consulate
16 Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh EH3 7TT
Saturday April 2nd 12 noon until 2pm

In partnership with Edinburgh Voice for Animals (EVA), there will be a demonstration outside the Irish Embassy in Edinburgh from 12 noonuntil 2pm on Saturday 2nd April against the Irish Greyhound Board's plans to export greyhounds to China, as part of a scheme to set up a greyhound racing industry there.

Please try to attend, if you possibly can, and rescued greyhounds are also more than welcome.

greyhoundactionscotland@btopenworld.com
http://www.greyhoundactionscotland.org.uk

China exports - Help needed for greyhound track demos in Ireland

Greyhound Action Ireland have issued the following appeals for Irish supporters to help with leafleting outside dog tracks there, as part of their campaign to prevent greyhounds being exported to China.

 

THE IGB ARE CRUEL ANIMAL EXPLOITERS AND KILLERS - STOP GREYHOUND EXPORTS TO CHINA                      WE NEED YOUR HELP.  

GREYHOUND ACTION IRELAND are currently getting thousands of flyers printed to distribute at the 16 tracks in Ireland. We are asking people to BOYCOTT GREYHOUND RACING and to contact their TDs expressing their opposition to Greyhound exports to China by the IGB.

NOW WE NEED YOU TO HELP US LEAFLET AT THE TRACKS BELOW. Especially the rural ones.

WHO CAN GIVE AN HOUR BEFORE RACING STARTS {chart below] TO HAND OUT FLYERS???

WE FEEL THIS WILL PUT PRESSURE ON THE IGB, THEY DO NOT WANT TO LOSE BUSINESS DUE TO THEIR SICK NEW MONEY-MAKING SCHEME IN CHINA

Flyers ready hopefully by the weekend.

Contact me if you want to help us-IF THIS VENTURE IS APPROVED BY THE GOVERNMENT IT WILL BE TOO LATE FOR THE GREYHOUNDS….WE CANNOT DO ANYTHING TO SAVE THEM IN CHINA!!!!!

BERNIE WRIGHT.

GREYHOUND ACTION IRELAND.

PHONE 00353 872651720

bigbrownrat@gmail.com

Race Nights & Times

Stadium	M	T	W	T	F	S	S	Gates Open	1st Race
Curraheen Park				l	l	l		6.30pm	8pm
Shelbourne Park			l	l		l		6.30pm	8pm
Harolds Cross	l	l			l			6.45pm	8pm
Clonmel				l			l	7pm	T - 8pm S -7.30pm
Dundalk	l				l	l		6.30pm	7.45pm
Enniscorthy	l			l				7pm	8pm
Galway				l	l	l		6.30pm	8pm
Kilkenny			l		l			7pm	8pm
Lifford						l	l	Sat - 6.30pm Sun - 4.30pm	Sat - 8pm Sun - 6pm
Limerick					l	l		6.30pm	7.45pm
Longford	l				l			7pm	8pm
Mullingar				l		l		7pm	8pm
Newbridge CLOSED					l	l		7pm	7.45pm
Thurles					l	l		7pm	8pm
Tralee		l			l	l		7pm	8pm
Waterford					l	l		7pm	8pm
Youghal	l				l			7pm	8pm We URGENTLY need more people to help stop this happening. Getting Flyers today so I can post to you later. SURELY IF YOU CARE ABOUT STOPPING THIS YOU CAN DONATE AN HOUR TO THE DOGS WHO MAY DIE if we do not succeed. Personally I want to give this the best I can as there will be NO STOPPING THE DOGS BEING LOADED UP AND SENT OFF ONCE IT STARTS. WE ONLY HAVE NOW TO ACT! Please offer to help those of us who cannot get to all the tracks without more people***** From FRIDAY the leaflets will be ready to distribute at GREYHOUND TRACKS NATIONWIDE . IT WAS GREAT TO GET SUCH A TURNOUT AT THE DUBLIN DEMO. THANK YOU. Most of you gave your email addresses to be contacted again. Well we are only just starting. I realise most of you are new to campaigning but one demo wont do it! It rarely does. ONE DEMONSTRATION OR 4 AS IN THIS CASE [Dublin, Boston, Edinburgh,London]WILL NOT BE ENOUGH TO STOP THIS SICK IDEA OF SENDING DOGS TO CHINA, THE IGB ARE BROKE AND WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO MAKE MONEY…THEY DON’T GIVE ONE IOTA ABOUT WHETHER DOGS LIVE OR DIE. THEY HAVE BEEN KILLING DOGS SINCE GREYHOUND RACING BEGAN. IF THIS MATERIALISES THOUSANDS OF DOGS WILL BE CONDEMNED TO DEATH, MOST LIKELY A SLOW TORTUROUS DEATH IN CHINA. AGAIN I ASK…WHO CAN HELP US PRESSURISE THE IGB BY LEAFLETTING RIGHT OUTSIDE THEIR TRACKS.YOU ARE NEEDED FOR JUST A FEW HOURS TO SAVE INNOCENT DOGS LIVES. LOOK AT THE TRACK LIST AND DAYS ON www.igb.ie LET ME KNOW HOW YOU WILL HELP. ·       ALSO KEEP PHONING AND EMAILING THE MINISTERS And THE IGB. ·       The IGB proposal is not with the minister yet. Greyhound action Ireland. Ph 0872651720