Originally posted by Suki Wingy
no but I watch a pet story on animal planet and they had a few greys at tracks and interviewed a few owners/trainers.
That's not exactly first-hand experience. You are very lucky that the radical Animal Rights crowd hasn't latched onto your sport and brutalized and lied about it in the worst possible way as they've done with greyhound racing.

I find it ironic that Ferdinand, winner of the 1986 Kentucky Derby, ended up in a can of dog food like many of his brethren, but nothing is heard about it. There was not one peep from the Animal Rights crowd. Horse racing is shown on TV, the trainers and breeders are respected, even revered by the media, and TB racing's warts and bumps are completely ignored by them and Animal Rights groups.

The AR crowd that feeds the media propaganda about greyhound racing knows little or nothing about greyhounds yet it is their shrill, PETA-like tactics that get the media's attention. They can make up anything they like and it gets printed without an ounce of research by reporters.

If you love TB racing pray every night that greyhound racing doesn't die. With nothing left to protest those activists will latch onto something. It should also be noted that a large percentage of the "handle" in racing, the amount bet on horses and dogs, is through remote betting, OTB parlors and other tracks. The last time I was at Tri-State there was a whole room full of people playing the ponies.