JULY 2005 LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Jul 28, 2005 - Dear Editor,

While the Star’s July 24th premise that greyhounds at Tucson Greyhound Park (TGP) suffer from neglect solely because of a decline in racing revenue appears logical on the surface, other factors are borne out by my personal experiences with Tucson greyhounds and by documented facts.

Our adoption organization, Greyhound Friends For Life, rescued several hundred greyhounds that came directly from TGP to California from 1991 through 1997. The greyhounds were consistently in poor condition and infested with fleas, ticks and internal parasites when they arrived.

News reports and court records document the following:

1991, a hundred starving greyhounds were seized from a Tucson kennel operator.

1992, seven neglected greyhounds were seized by animal control.

During the 1990’s, dozens of Tucson greyhounds were sold for research and truckloads of greyhounds were routinely euthanized at Pima County Animal Control.

Sadly, since the track’s heyday in the early 1990’s through to the present, TGP greyhounds have been rewarded for their service with substandard care, abuse and death.

Susan Netboy, Founder
Greyhound Friends For Life
PO Box 669
Penn Valley, CA 95946

530.432.1391

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