When I got Shaianne I researched greyhound rescue. I wanted to find out more about this wonderful breed even tho she didn't come from that type of a background.
Sadly, shooting deaths is just one of the ways used. Others are putting them in there crates and stacking them on top of each other in a barn out in the middle of nowhere and letting them starve to death. Another way is to muzzle them and let them run loose in the desert with no way to eat, drink or hunt food for themselves. The industry definatley needs stopped unless they can become more responsible with adoptions etc.
I often wondered with as many adopted greyhounds there are out there, why greyhounds weren't higher on the most popular list, I believe it is b/c the number of AKC registered (show) greyhounds is so much lower, they don't count all the rescued ones.