RI Race Track: Greyhound Racing a "Dying Industry"
Published June 24, 2009 @ 09:33AM PT
Oh, I can't tell you how good this was to read (and write in a headline). From AP, via Forbes:
UTGR Inc., the operator of Twin River, filed Tuesday for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it struggles to repay more than $500 million in debt. The facility will remain open as it restructures its debt, though it hopes to discontinue greyhound racing. . . .
Besides its debts, Twin River has been losing about $10.5 million a year from greyhound racing, said spokeswoman Patti Doyle. It plans to suspend racing after Aug. 8.
"We cannot continue to undertake it," Doyle said. "It's a dying industry" . . .
"I never thought about betting on the dogs," said Ron Audette, a 69-year-old who makes the drive from Fall River, Mass., twice a month to play video slots. "I don't think the dogs make it a big deal."
The faster this industry dies, the better.
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Stephanie Ernst is an independent animal rights advocate, a vegan, a tree-hugging environmentalist, and a freelance editor and writer. She lives in St. Louis with an aging corgi-lab and an adolescent rescued pit bull. In her advocacy, she works to challenge prevailing perceptions of animals, to show the connections between animal exploitation and other injustices, to help people see that animals are more like us than different, and to encourage compassionate, nonviolent living and eating.
Hear, hear !
(We live with two "retired" greyhounds -- beautiful, loving, regal animals.)
Posted by El Rucio on 06/24/2009 @ 10:55AM PT
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thsi shoild stop animal creutly
Posted by bernadette przybyl on 06/24/2009 @ 11:47AM PT
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This is a test, because I've been having trouble posting. I hope I can delete it if it works.
Posted by Sue G. on 06/24/2009 @ 09:44PM PT
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There is no option to delete. But anyway, the problem with my account seems to be fixed (for me, anyway). Stephanie, if you can delete messages, feel free to delete these two from me. Thanks.
Posted by Sue G. on 06/24/2009 @ 09:45PM PT
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yes, great news to start the day, ty Stephanie, I hope the owner finds himself on the street for all the misery he has caused. considering the dirty elbows he may have rubbed throughout the years, he might be in bigger trouble than he could ever have 'bet' on, hah!
Posted by Sheila Gredzinski on 06/25/2009 @ 05:01AM PT
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May the same thing one day soon be pronounced of the horse racing industry and the Iditarod: dying dying dying ... dead!
Posted by Olivia White on 06/25/2009 @ 05:52PM PT
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My mixed greyhound, rescued from euthanasia after a car accident when still a puppy, who had undergone 3 months of operations, is rewarding our entire family daily for adopting him. His sensitivity and feeling has caused us to change the Greyhounds' name to GRACEhounds. I pray that these retired, intelligent beings, will all find a home who will appreciate them for what they are.
Posted by Sa R on 09/26/2009 @ 08:37AM PT
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