Wisconsin's Dairyland Greyhound Racetrack is scheduled to close at the end of 2009. This fact has been known for a while.
Now, in a vindictive move by the track-, kennel-, and dog-owners, the dogs have been abandoned. PLEASE, help save a greyhound -- even if you can only foster a dog temporarily. There are a list of Michigan greyhound rescues in this blog's sidebar; I happen to volunteer with Michigan ReGAP (Rescued Greyhounds As Pets).
Following is the notice that I received this morning from MI ReGAP:
Neither the State of Wisconsin Division of Gaming, nor Dairyland Greyhound
Park have or will take responsibility or assist in the placement of pets at
Dairyland. Roy Berger, of DGP corporate management, stated that their
"contract with the State of Wisconsin terminates at midnight on 12/31/09;
{they} have no further responsibility or obligation." The Division of Gaming
today stated that it is the responsibility of DGP.
The dogs have no protection - they have been abandoned. Please go to the
website www.greyhoundalliance.org <http://ce.org/> where we will post
updates to the now upon us crisis.
If any groups can take dogs in the next 3 weeks, please let us know asap -
we will try to get every dog out of Dairyland that we can; we have been
denied access to the compound to cat test dogs, so that information is not
available.
Time is running out for the hounds
HOW CAN YOU HELP THESE DOGS? EITHER ADOPT OR FOSTER OR HELP SPREAD THE
WORD TO THOSE THAT WILL.
If you are able to foster a dog please contact Jennifer at
jen4greyrescue@yahoo.ca
If you are interested in adopting please visit our website at
www.rescuedgreyhounds.org and submit an application.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
For speaking for those that cannot -
MI REGAP
Oh I just hate greyhound racing. There is a track at Wheeling WVA which is about 2 hrs. east of here. I have NEVER gone there to see the races.
ReplyDeleteI hope that all these dogs find homes. Heartbreaking.
Quasar, you are soooo lucky.