Reading Council: 'Keen' for a return of racing.

Since the closure of Reading's Smallmead Stadium(greyhound racing and speedway)in October 2008, there have been plans to replace it and bring greyhound racing back to Reading.

Though it seems it has been an on-going topic, since Smallmead closure, Reading Borough Council are 'keen' to bring racing back to Reading and 'plans are well advanced for a new site', please read this article.

Please write a polite email to Reading Bourough Council at the on-line planning contact form.

Please explain your concerns that the Council is 'Keen' to have a return of greyhound racing, an inherently abussive industry, back to the town they represent.

Please highlight how the industry is sustained on the abuse and killing of tens of thousands of the greyhounds bred each year, how the Greyhound Board of Great Britain sanction the killing of healthy young greyhounds as an option for owners under rule 18 of the GBGB Racing Rules.

Say NO to the 'Stow' new campaign.

Further to the BBC’s promotion of the fight to bring the gambling on dogs back to Walthamstow being simply an issue of Heritage versus Housing -  please write to the Walthamstow Councillors & Walthamstow Residents' Associations, raising their awareness of an industry dependent on the inherent abuse of greyhounds in order to sustain its existence.

Presentations will be made next week(week beginning 26th September)to leaders of Waltham Forest Council by the team(backed by businessman and greyhound racing enthusiast, Bob Morton)who wish for the return of racing to Walthamstow.

Please highlight, in your emails to Waltham Forest Council and Walthamstow Residents Associations, how more than 12,000 dogs bred for British greyhound racing go ‘unaccounted’ for every year - either culled as puppies because they fail to make the grade or destroyed because no retirement home can be found. Many more suffer injuries on the dangerously configured tracks and dogs sustaining even minor injuries are destroyed because the injury is deemed uneconomical treat.

Please include this campaign video

And this video, showing how those who demand the return of racing to Walthamstow are only thinking of their industry’s survival – with no regard to the needs of the Walthamstow community.

Please add how the Greyhound Board of Great Britain fails to protect racing greyhounds under the Animal Welfare Act and as a consequence greyhounds are repeatedly subjected to abuse and exploitataion whilst their abusers are afforded the freedoms to continue to train and race greyhounds in a self regulated gambling industry, thus sustaining the inherent abuse on which it is built.

Please enclose this Waltham Guardian article, which details the Dogs Trust and League Against cruel Sports opposition to the re-opening of the dog track.

Please copy and paste these email address(in block forms)to your 'send to email box'.

Please remember to remain polite in raising the awareness.

Block 1: Councilors of Walthamstow(Waltham Forest Council)

cllr.masood.ahmad@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.afzal.akram@walthamforest.gov.uk; 

cllr.liaquat.ali@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.nadeem.ali@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.raja.anwar@walthamforest.gov.uk; 

cllr.mohammad.asghar@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.naheed.asghar@walthamforest.gov.uk;

cllr.peter.barnett@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.angie.bean@walthamforest.gov.uk; 

cllr.karen.bellamy@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.roy.berg@walthamforest.gov.uk; zc42@btconnect.com; 

cllr.paul.braham@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.nick.buckmaster@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.clare.coghill@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.elisabeth.davies@walthamforest.gov.uk;

 cllr.tunde.davies@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.matt.davis@walthamforest.gov.uk;  cllr.paul.douglas@walthamforest.gov.uk;

cllr.kieran.falconer@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.marion.fitzgerald@walthamforest.gov.uk; 

cllr.thom.goddard@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.jenny.gray@walthamforest.gov.uk; 

cllr.geoff.hammond@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.jemma.hemsted@walthamforest.gov.uk; 

cllr.peter.herrington@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.shameen.highfield@walthamforest.gov.uk; 

cllr.mahmood.hussain@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.ahsan.khan@walthamforest.gov.uk;

cllr.haroon.khan@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.michael.lewis@walthamforest.gov.uk; 

cllr.khevyn.limbajee@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.clyde.loakes@walthamforest.gov.uk; 

cllr.gerry.lyons@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.asim.mahmood@walthamforest.gov.uk; 

cllr.saima.mahmud@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.anna.mbachu@walthamforest.gov.uk; 

cllr.bernadette.mill@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.liz.phillips@walthamforest.gov.uk; 

cllr.marie.pye@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.shabana.qadir@walthamforest.gov.uk; 

cllr.farooq.qureshi@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.naheed.qureshi@walthamforest.gov.uk; 

cllr.sheree.rackham@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.geraldine.reardon@walthamforest.gov.uk; 

cllr.mark.rusling@walthamforest.gov.uk; leader@walthamforest.gov.uk; 

cllr.nicholas.russell@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.abu.samih@walthamforest.gov.uk; 

cllr.winnie.smith@walthamforest.gov.uk; cllr.bob.sullivan@walthamforest.gov.uk; 

Cllr.Sunger@instantemail.t-mobile.co.uk; cllr.richard.sweden@walthamforest.gov.uk; 

cllr.ebony@gmail.com; cllr.geoff.walker@ntlworld.com; cllr.terry.wheeler@walthamforest.gov.uk; 

cllr.laurance.wedderburn@walthamforest.gov.uk; richard.mcellistrum@walthamforest.gov.uk

Block 2: Walthamstow Residents Associations.

secretary@blackhorseactiongroup.org.uk; committee@bara-leytonstone.org.uk; info@fara-leytonstone.org.uk; 

info.fora@hotmail.com; highamspark@ntlworld.com; sd-christian@hotmail.com; highamsra@me.com; 

infowfcivicsociety@gmail.com

Please also visit this on-line email form to email Waltham Village Residents Association.

The China Deal

Please keep on with the campaign against the IGB proposals to the Irish Gov. for their economic-prop ventures with China.


Back in February 2011 the Sunday Times reported on how the IGB(Irish Greyhound Board)planned to export greyhounds to China.

An immediate world-wide outcry from advocates of greyhound welfare/abolitionists of the racing industry came in the form of protests, petitions and a massive union in emailing the Irish Gov. and the IGB.

China, as many of you know, have NO domestic animal welfare laws and through out the provinces in China there are varying laws on breeds of dogs that can be kept as pets, greyhounds being one of the breeds not allowed.
Even the IGB stated  'they could have no influence on the welfare standards adopted in other countries and that these matters would be more appropriately dealt with by the countries own legislative system.'

The many protests that followed the IGB desires in February came with successful news in May, after the Department of Agriculture(Irish Government)refused approval for the IGB.

However, the IGB went on to seek approval to set up an international arm to expand greyhound racing in China and manage the tracks, to be built, as 'part of an ambitious strategy to generate an alternative stream of income that could support the industry in Ireland', showing no regard to the welfare of the greyhounds in China or how they are at present treated in Macau.
Macau Canidrome greyhound track 'Retirement' Report, a list of the greyhounds killed and injured in the past year.

With a recent Irish Times report on a dog meat festival in China, recent reports of the 'integrities' of the Irish racing industry and with potential betting fraud threatening Irish 'sports', campaigning against the IGB desires with China must continue.

Please email the Ministry of Agriculture with your polite concerns that any IGB proposals with China must not be approved.
Write to:
Simon Coveney, Minister for agriculture: simon.coveney@agriculture.gov.ie
Shane McEntee, Minister of state at Department of Agriculture: shane.mcentee@finegael.ie
Shane Mcentee 're-affirmed the Governments commitment to the development of the greyhound industry in Ireland' at a recent prize presentation at Shelbourne greyhound track.

Please also email your polite concerns to the IGB
Adrian Neilan CEO of the IGB: adrian.neilan@igb.ie
Barry Coleman 'Welfare' manager(IGB): barry.coleman@igb.ie

FaceBook users please look up Stop Greyhound Racing in Macau for further actions.

Please sign petitions here and here and help Rescue Brooklyn

Show Me The Bunny

BBC Radio 5 Live promote greyhound racing as a fun night out.

Presenter Colin Murray has 'adopted' a greyhound who's races are broadcast live, on his Friday evenings 'kicking off' show, from Owlerton track in Sheffield., a track that advertised Stuart Mason as one of its professional trainers who is under investigation after one of his greyhounds tested positive for cocaine.

ShowMe TheBunny, named by listeners and fans of Colin's show, has been commented of jovially and in a not-of-too-much-importance way as to 'taking a bump' on the 1st bend.

'A bump', which is of regular occurrence on the track, has been furthered into thousands of greyhounds being killed through horrifying injuries and even minor injuries lead the greyhound being PTS.

Please write polite complaints to the BBC and ask that they withdraw ShowMe theBunny from racing and withdraw from promoting greyhound racing, an abusive industry on this BBC on-line complaint form.

GAIN Feeds, one of the leading sponsors of Irish greyhound racing.

GAIN Feeds step in to sponsor the weekly Greyhound View program.

With the Irish Greyhound Board being:
 '....delighted that GAIN Feeds have not only extended their support for the greyhound industry but recognise the importance of this national TV coverage.......'
'....this sponsorship once again demonstrates their (GAIN Feeds) commitment to the Irish Greyhound Industry.'

Please join in with contacting GAIN Feeds to politely remind them how they sponsor and aid the continuations of the abuses greyhounds endure for the industry.