Animal Rights Cambridge
Cruel 'Sports'
Fox Hunting
This is now illegal in England, but it still goes on. The people who do this have no compassion for animals and often none for humans either, because many protesters have been violently attacked by the huntsmen. During a hunt dogs and men on horse back chase foxes across the countryside until they are so exhausted they cannot run for their lives and the dogs catch them and tear them apart.
Hare Coarsing
Is where two dogs chase a hare, which runs for its life just to entertain the people watching. Often the dogs catch up with it and together they rip it apart while it is alive. If you are unlucky enough to be nearby when people are doing this (illegally) you would hear the hare's loud piercing screams.
Shooting
Many people do this as a 'sport', purely because they enjoy killing animals. The animals which are often killed by these people are rabbits, pheasants, wild ducks, geese, foxes and pigeons. The captive bred birds such as pheasants are bred in overcrowded conditions, where their welfare is very poor.There is no valid reason for killing these animals, it is purely done for fun. They dont care that animals have feelings too, they can feel pain, fear, hunger and form attachments to eachother, just as we do, but people who go shooting are ultimately cold-blooded killers.
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Dog/Cock Fighting
Two animals are made to fight eachother to the death. This is a slow and painful death which means a great deal of suffering for both animals and horrific injuries. This is illegal in the Uk, but still goes on in other countries. Dogs tear each other apart in unimaginable pain, while idiots like the man in the photo above, laugh and gamble!
Horse Racing
Horses are over worked and often develope injuries. If a horse trips/falls in a race they often fall so badly that they are put down.
Greyhound Racing
This is bad for animals because once the greyhounds are injured or are no good for racing their owners tend to abandon them or kill them. There are 10,000 greyhounds retire from racing each year and 2,000 which are bred to race but fail to meet the requirements of racing dogs. This number do not end up in shelters, because shelters would be overflowing. However, the lucky ones do go to shelters.
They wait along time in the shelters for a new home, because many people want a 'cute' little fluffy dog. Greyhounds are lovely dogs and make great pets, so dont overlook them at your animal shelter!
However many of the dogs are shot or abandoned in random places with their ears cut off to stop police/rspca tracing the owner through the racing tattoo.
Here is part of the recent articles from The Sunday Times and The Daily Mail, proof if you really need it?!
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The 'killing fields'of 10,000 greyhounds too old to race 21:05pm 16th July 2006
Aftermath: David Smith transports the bodies of two dogs in a wheelbarrow before dropping the dogs into a pit and filling in the hole Ten thousand healthy greyhounds were secretly slaughtered and buried in 'killing fields' because they were past their prime. No longer of use as racing dogs, the greyhounds were said to have been delivered to building merchant David Smith who shot them in the head with a bolt gun, then buried them in a one-acre plot behind his house. Campaigners believe similar operations exist elsewhere the country. Ben Bradshaw, minister for animal welfare, described Mr Smith's business as 'horrendous' and said he would review the evidence of his activities. MP Eric Martlew, chairman of a crossparty animal welfare group, said he would urge colleagues to launch an inquiry. "This is absolutely appalling. It's time the industry cleaned up its act", Mr Martlew said. "For a long time now people thought this kind of thing was going on without any evidence”. "I think the industry is in denial about it. There must have been hundreds, if not thousands of people in the industry that knew what this man was doing.” "I also suspect this is not the only canine killing field like this." Mr Smith's business was exposed by The Sunday Times. One trainer, who did not want to be named, told the newspaper: "This man kills dogs for 40 licensed trainers and there are at least 10,000 dogs in his field. "People in the industry have been going to him for years. Many bigwigs knew it was going on." Greyhounds live until they are between 12 and 14. Greyhound racing attracts 3.5million spectators to the tracks a year with more than £2.5billion bet annually. The dogs have only a short racing life and are considered too slow by the time they are three-and a half to five. Some are re-homed through greyhound rescue centres but the RSPCA estimates about 12,000 vanish a year. It is claimed Mr Smith charged £10 to shoot the dogs. He then put their bodies in a wheelbarrow and dumped them in a hole on land near his home in Seaham, One dog track insider told The Sunday Times that greyhound owners and trainers had tried to keep quiet about Mr Smith's operation which was previously run by his father. "These dogs have made a lot of people a lot of money and they don't deserve to be shot in the head," the insider added. Since 1997 anyone can own a bolt gun to kill animals without a licence but can be prosecuted if animals are put down inhumanely. Alistair McLean, chief executive of the National Greyhound Racing Club, which governs the sport, described Mr Smith's business as a "euthanasia factory". He said the greyhound industry helped fund the retirement of about 3,000 of the 10,000 dogs that stopped racing at its 30 registered tracks each year.
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