Sentences with phrase «racing greyhounds which»

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Arno has plans to convert the school into a gambling paradise known as Arno Town, in which the football field will become greyhound race tracks and the library converted to a major casino.

Legend has it that they the favorite pet of both Cleopatra and Queen Elizabeth I, which is why Greyhound racing was dubbed the Sport of Queens.

There is a blind spot among some adopters, which can fail to perceive even the possibility that the greyhound may have been perfectly happy with things as they were, as a racing athlete, one among many — a pack member.

Greyhounds spend a great deal of time lying down in their racing kennels, which can wear their hair away.

Most greyhounds are available for adoption after their racing careers end and adoption assures they'll have a good home which saves them from being euthanized!

If the commission greenlights the plan, Tuscon Greyhound Park will end its long history of dog racing, which has been occurring at the facility since 1944, when racing was legal for just 60 days per year.

Animal advocates are hopeful that this ban, slated to take effect in July 2017, will pave the way for other Australian states — some of which have launched their own investigations into the sport — to ban greyhound racing as well.

The illness, which was discovered in racing greyhounds in Alabama in the 1980s, has now cropped up in the U.K. where it's spreading across the country.

Backers of the ballot measure believe greyhound racing constitutes animal abuse because of the industry's excessive breeding practices, the cruel methods by which unwanted dogs are destroyed, the conditions in which many are forced to live and the number of injuries racing leads to.

Every year, surplus breeding to ensure the availability of animals with the greatest aptitude for racing takes place while adult racing greyhounds, which would ordinarily have a life expectancy of 13 years, are retired before they reach the age of 4.

Therefore, racing Greyhounds are kennel - broken, which means they're trained to go outside and keep their kennels clean.

The problem arose as a result of a Miller Lite commercial which depicted two racing Dachshunds, and the problem was further compounded when the Miller Brewing Company undertook a public relations campaign sponsoring Dachshund races at Greyhound tracks.

There is also another respiratory infection called Canine Influenza, which seemed to be a racing greyhound issue exclusively until late 2005.

The CDC found that the virus was a mutated version of one found in horses, which had made it to to racing greyhounds in Florida.

The Greyhound is a very old European breed of dog, a sighthound which was historically bred for coursing game and more recently, racing.

The strain, which originated from a horse flu, has stricken racing greyhounds and is showing up in some pet dogs.

The Greyhound is a breed of dog; a sighthound which has been bred for coursing game and Greyhound racing.