What happens to ex-racing greyhounds when their career is over?
• Adoption Moving into a caring loving home is the best finish to career for a greyhound and adopting one is a wonderful way to add a companion into your life. • Breeding Greyhounds are not altered during their racing careers so that the superior runners can be used for breeding. However, few greyhounds are deemed good enough to be used this way. • Sold to a less competitive track A good track will sometimes sell a dog down in class, meaning that the greyhound will not retired but run against slower competition. • Medical research Many ex-racing greyhounds have been sold into medical research. Because greyhounds are used to being handled by humans during their racing careers, they make ideal animals for medical researchers. Depending on the research project, this can be an horrific fate. • Death Thousands of greyhounds are killed each year because they are no longer winners at the track, good candidates for breeding and not sold into medical research. GReAT works with “no kill” tracks
