IN the wake of the recent Kenyon Confronts television programme, which exposed the ill-treatment of dogs by some members of the greyhound racing fraternity, greyhound protection group Greyhound Action has launched a scheme to enable members of the public to give practical help to ex-racing greyhounds.
Sadly, many thousands of greyhounds are killed when their racing days are over and, of those that survive, hundreds end up living out their days in rescue centre kennels because not enough homes are available for them.
The kindly people who run these centres often struggle to make ends meet and cannot usually afford the cost of coats to keep the greyhounds warm in winter.
Greyhounds have little body fat and are therefore particularly susceptible to the cold.
We would like to appeal to your readers to take part in our project to provide coats for rescue centre greyhounds.
Greyhound coats can be made quite easily from old or unwanted blankets and we are urgently in need of volunteers to make them.
If you can help in this way, please contact us as soon as possible and we will send you a pattern and full instructions. If you already have any greyhound coats to spare, let us know and we will provide you with details of local rescue centres that need them.
Please do not send any coats to us as they need to go direct to the rescues. You can write to Greyhound Action at PO Box 127, Kidderminster, DY10 3UZ, phone us on 01562 745778, fax us on 0870 138 3993 or e-mail us at greyhoundaction@blueyonder.co.uk
Tony Peters
Greyhound Action
Kidderminster
greyhoundaction@blueyonder.co.uk
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