A Day In The Life: Nathan Hunt, one of the youngest greyhound trainers in the UK 

Yours may have been an omega dog, not cruelly used but naturally what is colloquially called a spook. I have one now, still spooky at 13and a half but what a love. They will improve, can be quite affectionate but will always have a strong flight response. I see them as somewhat autistic. Happens among all breeds. Hopefully, they end up with understanding and accommodating caretakers.

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If you love your dogs, how can you accept the risk of their injuries or death during the races only for fun of some stupid people and for money?

@@francescorizzato8155 people love their roosters and they are fighting them for money and they fight till death and still its the top sport in the world... Greyhounds are made for Race we will race them and want to keep a retired champ at home instead of a useless dog

@@VillageLifeRouten greyhounds are lovely, devoted, sensitive dogs, not roosters; and who exploit them for money is inhuman. I have a rescue greyhound and I know the reality. All civil countries have forbidden this races.

@@francescorizzato8155 Tell me what the reality of greyhound racing is. The USA is a civil country and races aren't forbidden here. The UK and Ireland and AU are civil countries and racing isn't forbidden there either. See how wrong you are. The only people that exploit greyhounds for money are the lying activist groups that use them to gain donations for their salaries and lavish vacations. Anyone can't own a racing greyhound. It is very expensive to purchase one. And it's very expensive to keep a racing greyhound. There are kennel fees, track fees, Vet care, food and insurance fees that owners must pay. Any money that a racer makes goes right back into their care. You have a retired racing greyhound and yet you don't know anything about him or the care he received. You really should learn the real truth about greyhounds before adopting them. Greyhounds absolutely love to race or they wouldn't, it's as simple as that. They must be, by law and state regulations, be in 100% physical condition or they can't race. So they get the best care, better than a lot of adopted dogs do.

How would one get into it all pal? I’ve just been looking at greyhounds 2k-4K with good bloodlines how much is training fees etc?

@francesco rizzato You know for a fact that thousands of greyhounds are killed every year. How do you know that? Where are your facts to back that up? You actually see thousands getting killed every year? What kennels? Where? And you don't report these "killings?" I think you're full of bull crap. Thousands are not killed every year. That's ridiculous! There are adoption groups all over the country and other countries with waiting lists for adoptable greyhounds that retire from racing. None are killed. What is so horrible about greyhounds doing what they love? Greyhounds love to race. They get the best care. Abused greyhounds by law are not allowed to race so what's the purpose of abusing them? Greyhounds must be 100% healthy to race or they are disqualified. Stop with the stupid propaganda lies from lying activist groups.

@@ruthhagenbaugh2223 see this reportage. I think you know the real situation of greyhound exploitation.. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u0R2bNG9Vn8.html

You said "greyhound love to race".. I have adopted my greyhound when she was 4 year and she was a racer in Ireland. Now she has 6 years and she run only sometimes and only for few seconds.. It not seems that she love to race... She was extremely scared of people and we have worked hard on this aspect. She lived 4 years in a cage whithout socialisation or love.

@@francescorizzato8155 When they're being trained to race, they will either chase after that lure or not. If they refuse to chase the lure for whatever reasons, they never make it to the real race tracks, so if your greyhound was a racer, she loved to chase that lure and race other greyhounds. Now that she's retired, she doesn't want to race. She's happy being retired and lazy. My greyhounds when they were younger still did zoomies around the yard every day. Now that they are older, they never do zoomies anymore, but they loved to race.

@@ruthhagenbaugh2223 She was extremely scared of people and we have worked hard on this aspect. She lived 4 years in a cage whithout socialisation or love. This is not life, this is not sport, this is exploitation. Surelly not all the kennels are the same, but when the finality is to make money, the animal care is not the at the first place.. I repeat, please see this reportage. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-u0R2bNG9Vn8.html Best regards.

@Carla Legnani How do greyhounds suffer? What have you seen yourself to say they suffer? Racing owners do not get rich from racing their greyhounds. That's just a myth perpetrated by lying activist groups. It's quite expensive to own a racing greyhound. So it's not money, money, money. That's where you are wrong, wrong, wrong. What happens if they get injured? Do you really know? Have you seen what actually happens to an injured greyhound? Greyhounds that might get injured, get treated right there at the track by a track Vet, then they go to an off track Vet for further treatment and then back to the kennel to rest until they are healed. Then after they're healed, they're ready to race again. If the injury is career ending, the greyhound goes home with their owner or goes to an adoption group and gets adopted. That is FACT! Time to stop posting comments that are simply not true.

@@ruthhagenbaugh2223 as I remarked before no animal should be used for human entertainment and BETTING. We all know that animal racing goes hand in hand with betting. Humans choose to race, Animals can’t. They don’t have any choice: have you ever seen the start of a greyhound race, how they are forced by the trainers to go into that sort of cage? Have you ever seen and felt how they’re scared when they hear the shooting starting the race?Do you know the oval shape of the track is dangerous and many of them get injured after about five minutes? Just go on RU-vid and you can watch it. Ever you ever watched a video where healthy and young greyhounds get killed with a gun, their corpses put in a wheelbarrow, buried and covered with concrete? I have and that isn’t propaganda. Galgos live the same hell in Spain: they’re exploited for hunting and, when they’re no good anymore they get killed slowly and painfully. They can be drowned, hanged from a tree ( by the so-called pianista killing; they hang down and try to free themselves until the rope becomes too tight and they asphyxiate) or shooted. You can find it anywhere on the web. And, answering to your question , I’ve never seen with my own eyes what happens to an injured greyhound. Luckily we don’t have tracks in Italy. I know it through the information the rescue associations give, through photographic and video evidence, and even through what trainers say. But, at the end, the question is one and one only: should animals ( and besides racing, I mean the corrida, the dog fights, hunting, cirques, and so on) be used for human entertainment and greediness (betting is about money, isn’t it?) My answer is NO! # animals are our brothers # we should protect them #They bet, we die And Ruth, I don’t know where you are from, but go and have a chat with a rescue association. They can give you more detailed information than I have.

@@carlegnani1954 Yes, I've seen greyhounds race many, many times and the pure love they have for racing is amazing. Greyhounds are not forced to race. They do have a choice. If a greyhound won't chase a lure for any reason, they get an early retirement and get adopted. You can't force a greyhound to do anything. I've been involved with greyhounds for 23 years. I know kennel owners, handlers and racing owners personally. Greyhounds get the best care. They have to or they can't race. Greyhounds don't have a clue that they are racing so people can bet on them. They are racing to catch that lure and loving every second of it. Greyhounds only race once or twice a week for around 32 seconds. That's all a race lasts for, 32 seconds, not 5 minutes. You really don't have any idea at all about greyhounds, racing or their care. How could you? You live in Italy. So you're believing scam, lying activist groups. Injuries at the tracks are very rare and most are very minor. The tracks are safer for them to run on than their own yards or an open field. No greyhounds are killed. When they are finished with their career, they go home with their owner or they go to adoption groups and get adopted. They make excellent family pets so there are waiting lists at almost every adoption group for available greyhounds. Everyone wants one. Galgos are a completely different story and have nothing to do with greyhounds or racing. Yes, galgos are abused, killed and left to die. They are the ones that need to be saved, not racing greyhounds. Greyhounds are not forced into the starting boxes. They are lifted in so they don't get hurt. There is no starting gun to scare them. They wait until they hear the lure coming around the track, then they take off after it. It's a game for them and they love it. If you really want to learn the truth, right here on RU-vid are unaltered videos that show the real truth. Go to Greyhound Chronicles or Paint The Trail and watch those videos. You'll see how much greyhounds are loved and how they love to race.

The body language of the dogs here doesn't how any mistreatment, the people and video can try to mislead but animals can't! I have an ex racer and he did have some trauma from a bad kennel but why damn the good ones along with the bad? Why not support the good and use them as examples to hold the bad ones up to? Also, since it's impossible to be an expert on everything, I'd love to see your sources on the deaths, as long as they're reliable sources and not sensationalist retelling or stories :)

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@Bobbie Gray What is so cruel about racing? The greyhounds love it or they wouldn't do it. They get the best care or they couldn't race. Thousands are not killed because of racing. None are killed. Every retired racing greyhound gets adopted or stays with their owner. Stop posting ridiculous lies.

I have an ex racing greyhound and see no body language from the dogs here that say they're mistreated. Yes the people and video can make things look lovely, but the animals can't lie. Not all kennels are good, my boy had some trauma, but why damn the good ones along with the bad? Surely support the good as examples to hold the bad ones up to?

@@hspurr5922 Im sorry, horse racing and dog racing is a no for.me..

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@Jessica Kruger What is cruel about greyhounds racing? The greyhounds absolutely love to race, to chase that lure or they wouldn't do it. It's great exercise for them and they only race once or twice a week for around 32 seconds. They have to be 100% healthy to race or they are disqualified so they get the best care so they can race. There is no abuse. Abused greyhounds can't race, period. So what is cruel about it?

@@ruthhagenbaugh2223 and when they done with? Lets stop making excuses for using animals for our entertainment.