What the RSPCA says about the situation is this: "Greyhound racing in the UK falls into two categories, those tracks registered by the National Greyhound Racing Club (NGRC) and the non-registered independent sector. There are 31 tracks and more than 9,000 greyhounds registered by the NGRC2 in Britain and there are 21 unregistered dog tracks outside of their control.3 The independent sector is unregulated and standards are entirely dependent on the track manager."
DEFRA says: "the legislation in the UK governing farmed animal welfare is very comprehensive. However, protection of non-farmed animals has not kept up with these developments."
The regulation of the 'registered' tracks is carried out by the NGRC, which is not really an independent body. Although in theory the 'regulated' tracks should be better, there are far too many eye-witness reports that suggest this is not the case, and even on those tracks dogs are not getting appropriate treatment, doping is widespread, dogs are running on tracks that are designed to cause injury, not exercised, not given basic healthcare, etc.
The new Animal Welfare Bill 2006 at the moment looks like it will require the industry to be self-regulating. Given that the regulators seem to have wholly overlooked this guy and his moderately large dog disposal operation and are now acting all shocked and surprised, this is not promising.
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Date: 2006-07-18 09:36 am (UTC)"Greyhound racing in the UK falls into two categories, those tracks registered by the National Greyhound Racing Club (NGRC) and the non-registered independent sector. There are 31 tracks
and more than 9,000 greyhounds registered by the NGRC2 in Britain and there are 21 unregistered dog tracks outside of their control.3 The independent sector is unregulated and standards are entirely dependent on the track manager."
DEFRA says: "the legislation in the UK governing farmed animal welfare is very comprehensive. However, protection of non-farmed animals has not kept up with these developments."
The regulation of the 'registered' tracks is carried out by the NGRC, which is not really an independent body. Although in theory the 'regulated' tracks should be better, there are far too many eye-witness reports that suggest this is not the case, and even on those tracks dogs are not getting appropriate treatment, doping is widespread, dogs are running on tracks that are designed to cause injury, not exercised, not given basic healthcare, etc.
The new Animal Welfare Bill 2006 at the moment looks like it will require the industry to be self-regulating. Given that the regulators seem to have wholly overlooked this guy and his moderately large dog disposal operation and are now acting all shocked and surprised, this is not promising.