PLEASE CROSSPOST TO THE MOON AND BACK - NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY [size=16]To all anti-greyhound racing campaigners, greyhound rescues and ALL animal lovers GLOBALLY [/size]
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[/size][size=16]PLEASE ALSO POST THIS VITAL APPEAL ON ALL [/size]DOG FRIENDLY FORUMS AND WEBSITES AND YOUR FACEBOOK AND MYSPACE FOR MAXIMUM PUBLICITY












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YET ANOTHER Greyhound has recently been found dead with ears hacked off in the UK!! - This time in Hartlepoole nr. Durham- [size=21]Please see article in appeal below and please take action[/size]
Greyhound Crusaders/SWAP team UK have today been alerted to yet another case of a greyhound found dead with ears hacked off to remove identifying tattoo numbers. This is the [size=25]FIFTH disturbing case of cruelty to greyhounds to be reported in the last two weeks!!! We have recently reported: a greyhound recently found stabbed to death with a breadknife in Sunderland (UK) a greyhound dumped in Sittingbourne that was involved in a road traffic accident (UK) a greyhound found drowned in the River Foyle in Ireland, the most recent heartbreaking case of a greyhound who was pregnant with six pups, brutally killed with ears hacked off and dumped on wasteland in Iron Acton nr. Bristol (UK) and now today, this very disturbing case in Hartlepool (UK). [/size]
In today's case, this poor soul's mutilated body was discovered by the side of a footpath situated between two villages near Hartlepool. According to the article below, the person who discovered the body described the greyhound as follows "It looked like it was only about four, and must have been a beautiful brindle dog at one time." "It looked like it had starved to death, and both its ears had been cut off." A spokesperson for the RSPCA said that there also appeared to be some trauma to the dog's chest.

If anyone has any info on this case please call the Hartlepool Police on 01429 221151 and the RSPCA cruelty line immediately on 0300 1234 999
Please read the article here (and also below)- (WARNING! Contains Disturbing image)
www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/Horror-at-dead-greyhound-discovery.5074205.jp
We are now asking all our national and international supporters to please take action by inundating the authorities asap, please urge the authorities below to take immediate action on finding the perpetrator of this heanus crime and bring them to justice. Nothing less than a maximum prison sentence and a life ban on keeping animals is acceptable for this evil person(s).
Please remember it is imperative that all correspondence is kept polite
Please email the local MP in the area - Iain Wright wrighti@parliament.uk
[size=16]Please email the Cleveland Police - http://www.cleveland.police.uk/have_your_say/feedback.htm[/size]
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[size=16]Please email the RSPCA here[/size]Enqserv@rspca.org.uk

Please also write a letter to the editor at the the 'Hartlepool Mail' in response to this article, highlighting the terrible plight of the racing greyhound. To email the newspaper (via a feedback form) please see this link: http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/contactus.aspx Please note the newspaper requests that 'If it is a letter to the Editor for publication, please be sure to make this clear in the subject header'.
Name and address to be supplied please for letters to the Editor.

If anyone has info leading to the perpetrator of this heanus crime please email us in confidence immediately at greyhoundcrusaders@googlemail.com or southwestanimalprotection@yahoo.co.uk
Greyhound Crusaders/SWAP team UK will be sending out press releases and will attempt to do another radio appeal for people to come forward with any info on this case.

Let's do all we can to make sure justice prevails

Many thanks for everyone's support, we all make the difference.
Greyhound Crusaders/SWAP team UK

If anyone would like to join the campaign to abolish greyhound racing please visit www.greyhoundaction.org.uk and then email info@greyhoundaction.org.uk


ARTICLE

Dead greyhound horror discovery


Published Date:
16 March 2009


By Paul Watson




A DOG owner told of her horror after finding a greyhound lying dead by the side of a footpath with both of its ears missing.
Animal welfare experts fear they may never be able to determine how it met its death.

The origins of the stricken animal are unknown, but greyhounds which are registered to race have tattoos inside their ears.

It is thought they may have been cut off to stop the animal being traced.

The dog was discovered by the side of a country lane, between Trimdon Village and Kelloe.

The woman who discovered the dog and took the grim pictures, does not want to be named as she fears there could be reprisals if the dog is linked to anyone in the local area.

She said: "It looked like it was only about four, and must have been a beautiful brindle dog at one time.

"I burst into tears when I saw it, and was then physically sick.

"It looked like it had starved to death, and both its ears had been cut off."

A spokesman for the RSPCA said an inspector visited the scene and has removed the body.

She said: "Unfortunately, as the body is so decomposed, it's impossible for us to establish whether or not this dog suffered before its death.

"There does appear to be some trauma to the dog's chest and its ears are missing, but we have no way of knowing whether these things happened before or after the animal died.

"Obviously it is quite an unpleasant thing to come across and, although the responsibility for the removal of the body lies with the local authority, the inspector went back to remove the animal."

Terry Rushmer, a former inspector with the Retired Greyhound Trust, an organisation which rescues dogs which can no longer race, said she was shocked.

At her home in Hartlepool she said: "It is solutely disgusting.

"People who do this should be jailed and banned from keeping animals for life.

"This is the sort of thing we have fought against for decades.

"Removing the ears is sickening, but was probably done to stop the tattoos being identified."

The Mail has cropped the photo of the dog's condition because it was too distressing to show.

it's bloody outrageous :mad:

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