by Rockingship<\/p>\n
Attention all Florida Greyhounds! The good news is that the latest legislation designed to \u201cprotect\u201d you from what it is that nature ordained you do, what it is you have been bred to do for nearly 100 years, and what it is that you love to do the most in the world\u2014yes, even more than sleeping–is DEAD.<\/p>\n
The bad news is that you guys will still have to put up with those long, boring turnouts with your kennelmates, clowning around like silly muppets, or lolling about in the sunlight and the soft breezes, as if you were drunk with the feel of it.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll still have to endure those awful grooming sessions and massages, maybe even those torturous whirlpool baths you dislike so much.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll still have to go down to the sprint fields and run around like possessed maniacs with your pack-pals, and get your feet and toes washed afterwards, when you\u2019d rather be sleeping it off in your very own den, in your very own bed, in your very own community.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll still have to go on long, tedious walks with your trainers, stepping on slugs, weeds and other flora and fawna, watching out for bees, woodchucks and squirrels.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll still have to go to the track and \u201cham it up\u201d with all the handlers there (those young girl leadouts are especially fond of \u201cinvading your space\u201d, aren\u2019t they?). Then you\u2019ll still have to race after that stupid lure as if there were nothing else in the world you\u2019d rather \u201chunt\u201d as part of a pack, the way your ancestors have done since pre-historic times.<\/p>\n
And afterwards, you\u2019ll still have to wait until you\u2019ve been cooled out, washed off, checked over and maybe even rubbed-down, before eating your dinner and sacking out for the night, along with the rest of your pleasantly fatigued colony.<\/p>\n
We know how much you detest all of that. Maybe if it weren\u2019t for all of that unthinkably cruel force, fuss and routine, and all that abusive, constant picking at you, some of you might actually make good personal or family pets when you were done racing. Oh ya sure.<\/p>\n
Anyhow, Grey2k has announced that they have again failed to sway the representatives of the people of Florida that they should banish a significant segment of their constituency to the breadline, with the mere stroke of a pen. The thousands of people who earn their living in State-regulated Greyhound Racing, it\u2019s infrastructure and networks, for at least another year, don\u2019t have to worry about being carted off in handcuffs either, for simply practicing their trade, and care-taking their Greyhounds, as did their brethren in Massachusetts. The greyhounds don\u2019t have to worry about the potential humane crisis of thousands of them overwhelming the existing adoption networks, and watching Grey2k shrug shoulders, walk away and tell them, in not so many words, \u201cit\u2019s not our problem\u201d, as they did in Massachusetts in 2008.<\/p>\n
In a recent, heart-breaking blog, Grey2k\u2019s Blogger-In-Chief gave us a glimpse into just how he and his group of animal rights fanatics and propagandists have been the victims of the demonic forces who participate in and support greyhound racing. Those forces are, of course, that small class of working people, whose livelihoods and lives Grey2k has worked feverishly, for a decade, to destroy, by waging a very public and outrageous smear campaign against them.<\/p>\n
Such zealous dedication toward demonizing and negatively stereotyping one\u2019s fellow citizens, should, after all, be rewarded, shouldn\u2019t it?. Those \u201crewards\u201d Grey2k seeks are to see every greyhound racing professional in the USA standing in line at the unemployment office.<\/p>\n
And, lest we forget, to see the Racing Greyhound breed, a thriving population of supremely functional athletes (who have become a pet phenomenon in retirement), reduced to fringe status–left to the mercies of backyard breeders, puppy millers and coyote hunters\u2014and for all intents and purposes, driven to extinction. This is the essence of their so-called \u201cadvocacy\u201d\u2014their \u201creward\u201d.<\/p>\n
The VICTIM-In-Chief laments:<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir angry rhetoric and personal attacks are meant to distract attention from the facts at hand.\u201d<\/p>\n
I know it\u2019s hard to understand how people whose very societal and cultural viability has been challenged by Grey2k and their supporters, with unceasing, unsubstantiated and unreported-to-the-authorities allegations of routine and widespread brutality, cruelty, and abuse could possibly take exception to the deliberate \u201cRonnie Williams-ing\u201d of each and every one them. But after 40 years of various animal rights, fanatical groups\u2019 unconscionable assaults on their character, occupation, lifestyle and culture, they have finally begun to find their voice. And Grey2k doesn\u2019t like it one bit.<\/p>\n
Since there are hundreds of thousands of people who have adopted retired Racing Greyhounds, the loving, good nature of the breed is no longer a secret. A functional canine breed’s general temperament and disposition are largely a result of genetics, their raising, their training, their handling and their environment. A population of dogs who were brutalized and abused at every stage of their lives, could simply never have become the sensation that the Racing Greyhound has become as a personal and family pet. It\u2019s an elementary matter of cause-and-effect. The Racing Greyhound is the unique, loving and beloved pet phenomenon he is, BECAUSE of his racing bloodlines, environment and experiences–not in spite of them. That\u2019s the way dogs work.<\/p>\n
But more on how Grey2k has been victimized:<\/p>\n
\u201cThey would rather attack greyhound protection advocates than debate the merits of dog racing\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Sounds as if the Blogger-In-Chief is \u201cprojecting\u201d, doesn\u2019t it?\u2026 especially since racing supporters or professionals are routinely censored or banned from commenting on his blogs.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026debate the merits of dog racing?\u201d, eh?…<\/p>\n
I\u2019m your Huckleberry. Say when.<\/p>\n
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