- A paper form recording retention, transfer of ownership, homing or death of a greyhound is used by the racing owner to inform the GBGB about a redundant racing dog.
- The form allows healthy dogs to be killed: on “economic grounds”; if “unsuitable” for homing or no home found. The form asks if the dog was destroyed by a vet and, if not, for an explanation of the circumstances.
- There are no published uniform behavioural standards supporting decisions about unsuitability for homing.
- The form is too weak in welfare terms. It reveals a comfort with permitted killing of healthy dogs within a multi-million pound gambling industry.
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