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i dont mean by that they are useless or people should just throw them out.but if the above done their bite and got a home for the aged ones and traded with the ones suited to the bags so they can race is nt that in the interest of both
john - why should i not breed anymore - what have i done wrong? i said earlier im only breeding my good producing bitch this year as it may be her last litter at her age. i still own most of what i have bred - i dont get rid of any of my dogs unless to a caring home and they stay with me until that is the case. i have broken legs mended and take back at my own expense any that may be under a death threat. i enjoy my racing and prefer to breed and rear my own racers than buy from other people but i fulfil my obligation to every pup i have brought into this world and will always continue to do so.
Hello John , the last i looked Sweden had no over breeding problems in fact it is quite the reverse , we have stricked controls in place. So sorry mate the answer is no, if i was to stop breeding it would have absolutely no effect on the U.K. at all. But you are right when topics of this nature come up evently it just becomes a carousel going round and round, and getting no where. You see John it is not Sweden sending greys to the U.K. for rehoming is it now.
Duncan, I asked if you would set us all an example by not breeding any more litters and the answer you gave was the one I expected. If I asked the same question to every breeder I would get a similar answer for a variety of very valid and plausible reasons.
David Huff Sweden (Verified User) Posts 14 Dogs 12 / Races 0 29 Oct 2009 16:41
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I first must apologize to everyone who has responed to my posting. I wrote it one hour after I put the dogs down and never went back on site. It's taken my almost two years to respond. First to Åsa, my comment was as Ducan said not against you, but blurted out of sorrow and dismay, please keep up the effort to find dogs homes. I quit greyhounds because of the boys and will never go back. Thank you Duncan, for adding your positive comments on my behalf. I'm sorry for the anger that my post has caused between people on this point. I did not race for money, and was not making room for new dogs. The two dogs that I sent and raced in Ireland found homes thanks to the work of Kat J. and Abhaile Greyhounds Barrowhouse, Ireland. Many thanks to both of them. The price I paid was to great to continue in the sport. I wish all who pursue this sport the best of luck. Please hold the welfare and care of the dogs higher than I could. David David
Gina Hetherington PA Ireland (Verified User) Posts 1236 Dogs 563 / Races 0 29 Oct 2009 20:39
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David, Asa passed away in an accident on June 29th 2008
Monika Then Bergh Germany (Verified User) Posts 570 Dogs 1 / Races 0 30 Oct 2009 23:19
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I might have never found this thread, without Davids last response now, so much later. I read it with conflicting feelings. I own two irish ex-racers; love them and would not want to exchange them for any other breed. As we don`t have commercial races here, they have to be imported. No other way. I might get any here from a rescue, which are in foster, but they where imported as well then before. Or a so called "Showgrey", but that is not my breed. I have to pay with my EU-taxes part of the irish breeders subsidy so i don`t feel the problem as only Irish/English. If my mony is taken into the dogs, the problem is mine in a way aswell. To talk about taxes, which should be payed by breeders makes me laugh in that sight - it is the other way round in fact. Asa - good bless her - told of the difficulty to rehome an exracer which is allredy in the land and in rehomers phantasy jet in safety, not from far away and threatened by death and cruelty (as all the storys tell). This experience i had to make this year by trying to rehome an exracer, who was to get second time rehomed. We failed, although a femail and healthy (as exracers are). The girl stays where she is, not perfect but not bad at all, while "new" dogs were imported and rehomed. So i can well imagine the anger and despair which was to be heard between the lines in Davids very first posting. Something very strange is going on in this procedure, when people want the unknown dog better than the one near, they might visit and then choose. On the other hand i`d love to have all of them rehomed directly. Without one kennel here, then another there with again new staff and then, after having setteled a bit, again everything new - owners, place, food, smell, surroundings, idaes, handling an so on.
In the ideal world (we all would like to have..) they should all live until near theyr natural lifetime. All of them greys, which are borne to this earth. So there would need to be less breeding, less rehoming, and less quarrel about it. The figures say it all: They are so many, that Europ can`t cope the problem fully, as they are just one part of the overbreeding problem in dog populations within the EU - there are streetdogs all around in uncounted numbers and something about 100.000 galgos a year in spain only! Take an average lifetime of 10 years for a dog and multiple with the new borne puppies, and then think of what amount of money alone the rehoming might cost.... Everyone here knows, this can`t work. We do have to find a practicabel way to decrease the amount of puppies without ruin the whole breed and - in my eyes - the sports as well. I really love them racinggreys and would not want them do dissapear, but i feel so sorry for all of them, which dont ever get a lovely doggie life as there are always more born then wanted.
Can`t be, that there is no solution to these problems without putting them to sleep, if we all want it!