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This is Bodhi:
Bodhi’s start in life wasn’t easy. He was bred for the greyhound-racing industry and discarded by it, then ended up where many greyhounds who are cast aside by the racing business do: imprisoned in a canine blood bank.
Thankfully, Bodhi’s story had a happy ending, but other greyhounds in the racing industry are forced to run to the point of sustaining broken legs or suffering from heatstroke or heart attacks. Dogs used for racing have incurred spinal injuries, broken necks, and crushed skulls, and some have been electrocuted after colliding with electric fences.
Greyhounds may be given drugs in an attempt to make them run faster. Cocaine has even been found at racetracks. For the few minutes that these dogs spend on a track during a race, they spend up to 23 hours a day confined to a cramped cage or kennel.
At the end of their racing “careers,” some “retired” greyhounds are put up for adoption, others are sent to breeding farms, and still others, like Bodhi, are shipped to blood banks, where their blood is routinely taken and sold.
But there’s hope for greyhounds! Bill HR 3335, the Greyhound Protection Act of 2021, introduced by U.S. Rep. Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.), would make it a federal crime to engage in commercial dog racing, which also means that U.S. gambling would no longer support the cruelty of dog racing overseas.
More than 30 animal welfare groups, including Grey2K USA and OIPA, have endorsed this lifesaving bill. Passing HR 3335 would be a game-changer for dogs like Bodhi.
Please take action now to help spare kind and gentle greyhounds.
You are vital to this cause, and your voice counts with your legislators. You are vital to this cause, and your voice counts with your legislators. Please use the form below to ask your U.S. representative to cosponsor HR 3335 today—and get others with a kind heart to do the same.