FL Bans Dog Racing

[Ron Burgundy]

Quinn's First Law: "Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent."

Animal rights whackos got a ballot measure passed in Florida to ban dog racing. My wife and I have been involved in retired greyhound adoption for many years. With all the tracks in Florida being forced to close, now we have a year and a half to find homes for 5000 to 7000 greyhounds. That won't be possible and some will have to be killed.

Thousands of racing greyhounds in Florida will need new homes by end of 2020

By David K. Li
Florida voters dealt a surprisingly decisive blow to greyhound racing, approving a measure that’ll ban the sport in their state by the end of 2020.

Amendment 13, which needed 60-percent approval to become law, got more than 5.3 million votes on Tuesday, good for 69 percent.

Passage of the sweeping measure means dog racing at 11 Florida tracks, with anywhere between 5,000 to 7,000 greyhounds, will be out of business by Dec. 31, 2020.

Officials on both sides of the ballot measure on Wednesday promised they'll find these unemployed greyhounds new homes.

Jim Gartland, executive director of the dog racing industry’s umbrella group National Greyhound Association, said 98 percent of retired racers are regularly adopted to families. And an overwhelming majority of the remaining 2 percent live out their days on farms, working as breeders, he added.

“We will do everything we can do to make sure that every one of them gets adopted,” Gartland told NBC News on Wednesday.

Humane Society Florida Director Kate MacFall, at the forefront of Amendment 13 campaigning, said her phone has been ringing off the hook on Wednesday with calls from prospective greyhound owners.

“They’re amazing pets, so gentle and sweet,” MacFall said. “They really are gentle giants.”

But Brooke Stumpf, president of the adoption group GreytHounds of Eastern Michigan, said she worries about untold thousands of greyhounds now at breeding farms throughout the South and Midwest.

With a majority of the nation's dog tracks slated to close by the end of 2020, young greyhounds that never make it to the track will need homes too.

"This will be a burden. We're mobilizing now," said Stumpf, whose group arranges 50 to 100 greyhound adoptions a year — but will now aim for an annual goal of 200. "We'll do the best we can. Some of these dogs might end up at shelters and they're not all no-kill. That's the scary part."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...kb8uniP1A5f5Au2ZOzxT1jVHX2-ljQ2A4ydahq4mgCZj8

Scammers are out there already. Below is a list of legitimate adoption groups.

https://www.ngagreyhounds.com/Adopt...1YUBDcsEXWC6PdazBVGJAUZrk1u7bN4FE9CchZyTuiTpw

 

[Sarge]

I am glad they banned dog racing, but they gotta learn to think ahead. This is like green energy. Let’s just ban all fossil fuels so we can be green and end global whatever it is. Let’s not ******* worry about how we get there or the consequences.

 

[Supersteeler]

I am glad they banned dog racing, but they gotta learn to think ahead. This is like green energy. Let’s just ban all fossil fuels so we can be green and end global whatever it is. Let’s not ******* worry about how we get there or the consequences.

Fazing anything out gradually or at least having a plan in place ahead of time would require more much foresight and intelligence than elected officials are capable of. .

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Fazing anything out gradually or at least having a plan in place ahead of time would require more much foresight and intelligence than elected officials are capable of. .

In this case it wasn't elected officials, rather the Libtard animal rights whackos got a ballot measure because they couldn't get it through the state legislature. Better ban horse racing now, it's the same thing.

 

[Troglodyte]

In this case it wasn't elected officials, rather the Libtard animal rights whackos got a ballot measure because they couldn't get it through the state legislature. Better ban horse racing now, it's the same thing.

People adopt retired racehorses? I thought the Japanese bought them for slaughter.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

People adopt retired racehorses? I thought the Japanese bought them for slaughter.

The Amish buy a lot of racehorses too to pull their buggies and abuse the **** out of them.

 

[hamster]

The Amish buy a lot of racehorses too to pull their buggies and abuse the **** out of them.

The Amish are like Scientologists. The left doesn't have a tidy little category to place them, so they avoid them.