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Racing Greyhounds in Ireland and Spain

In Ireland about 50'000 greyhounds are bred every year for the race tracks. The yearly revenue of the racing industry is several millions of Euro and their main goal is to achieve the highest possible profit. In view of the fact that these dogs are held in extremely poor living conditions it is a scandal that each litter is subsidized by the EU. Petitions of animal protection groups against this practice were without any effect. Firm commitments from the EU were bypassed by rerouting the subsidies to another section.
Two to three dogs have to share a kennel not bigger than 30 square feet.

Some "washed-out" greyhounds have been exported from Ireland to Spain quite recently. But also in Spain they lived and died in agony. In the meantime the racetracks had to close-down for fiscal reasons which at first was a relief to animal rights activists. It soon become clear that after the closure of the race-tracks at Barcelona a high number of these mistreated Greyhounds have been literally killed over night.