Arizona

MULTIPLE GREYHOUND DEATHS OCCURRED AT AN UNLICENSED KENNEL in Marana, Arizona. Within a period of a few months three stud dogs died from unidentified causes, as well as five puppies during birth when their "extremely thin" mother apparently suffered a stroke while whelping. Arizona Department of Racing cited the kennel for underweight dogs, whelping trailer dirty and full of flies, insufficient shade, excess weed and debris, no lighting and no vaccination records.
Source: Arizona Department of Racing Investigation Report, August 4, 1999

SEVENTEEN GREYHOUNDS WERE EUTHANIZED IN VIOLATION OF ARIZONA'S RACING CODE which mandates that "every effort" shall be made to adopt out greyhounds who are no longer raced or bred. Kennel owner Johnny Lloyd Rippetoe claimed he brought seventeen greyhounds to Pima County Animal Control because the adoption groups didn't take the dogs off his hands fast enough, and he couldn't afford to feed the dogs while they were awaiting adoption.
Source: The Arizona Daily Star/ Carol Ann Alaimo, September 11, 1999

A TWO-YEAR OLD GREYHOUND OWNED BY A FORMER KENNEL EMPLOYEE WORKING AT TUCSON GREYHOUND PARK DIED OF NEGLECT IN JANUARY AFTER IT WAS ABANDONED IN A TRAILER PARK. An animal control officer responding to a call discovered the male greyhound lying on the ground in extremely emaciated condition. The dog had died quite recently. The owner, Stephanie M. Seitsinger, had apparently left the dog outside her mother's trailer and moved away. Seitsinger and her boyfriend, both licensed to work as callouts at the Tucson track, were later found responsible for the neglect and ultimate death of the dog.
Source: Pima Animal Control Investigation Report - 1998 / Arizona Department of Racing Stewards Rulings

A MALNOURISHED GREYHOUND AND HER PUPPIES WERE FOUND AT A BREEDING FARM OUTSIDE THE CITY OF PHOENIX owned by Ansel Styles Jr., also employed as the announcer at Phoenix Greyhound Park. Styles' breeding license was revoked after the Arizona Department of Racing found the puppies and other dogs amidst inadequate conditions, including empty water bowls, overflowing waste buckets and excessive parasite infestation.
Source: Times-Enterprise/ Denise T. Ward, September 5, 1997

EIGHT GREYHOUNDS RACING AT APACHE GREYHOUND PARK WERE DIAGNOSED WITH CANINE DISTEMPER AND WERE EUTHANIZED FEBRUARY 21. The dogs had been leased to a kennel with a booking at Apache by owner Robert Lee Wooten, who was later fined for failure to vaccinate his greyhounds against common canine diseases. A follow-up inspection of Wooten's facility by the Arizona Department of Racing (ADOR) found that seven out of eight puppies from a recent litter had died and that another ten dogs had been euthanized a week earlier.
Source: ADOR Investigative Reports-1998, Greyhound Network News, Fall 1997

AN EMACIATED GREYHOUND WITH OPEN SORES WAS FOUND WANDERING NEAR ONE OF TUCSON GREYHOUND PARK'S KENNEL COMPOUNDS. The greyhound was later traced to a local racing kennel. When rescuers bathed the dog, it was so flea infested that blood flowed from her body for 15 minutes. A local veterinarian stated that the condition of the dog exhibited lengthy neglect and confinement on a hard surface. Animal welfare advocates noted that although new regulations now exist in Arizona, including unannounced kennel inspections, they go largely unenforced. 'In the four years I've been doing this [placing unwanted greyhounds as pets] I've seen more dogs like this than anyone can handle,' said Joan Randles of Arizona Greyhound Rescue.
Source: Greyhound Network News, Fall 1996, Tucson Citizen, Carla McClain, September 3, 1996

12 RACING GREYHOUNDS WERE ILLEGALLY SOLD TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA without the permission of the registered owners. Greyhounds are typically owned by private investors but handled on a day to day basis and often disposed of by trainers and kennel owners. In 1993, at the University of Arizona lab alone, approximately one hundred and twenty one greyhounds were killed in research.
Source: Tucson Citizen/ Carla McClain, March 5, 1994

10 SEVERELY EMACIATED GREYHOUNDS WERE FOUND NEAR DEATH, ABANDONED IN A PADLOCKED KENNEL outside Phoenix. One dog was in the words of one humane officer, "the worst I've ever seen that was still alive."
Source: The Arizona Republic, February 27, 1993

5 EXTREMELY EMACIATED GREYHOUNDS FOUND ON URINE COVERED BEDDING IN DIRTY PENS WITH LITTLE OR NO VENTILATION were among the seven greyhounds seized by Pima Animal Control officers in Tucson. The animals were suffering from excessive sores caused by insufficient bedding. They were in the care of an expelled NGA member.
Source: Arizona Daily Star/ Joe Salkowski, June 10, 1992

THE DECOMPOSING BODIES OF 143 GREYHOUNDS SHOT IN THE HEAD WERE DISCOVERED BY FARM WORKERS IN AN ABANDONED FRUIT GROVE outside Phoenix. As in many states, the shooting of dogs in one's possession is not illegal in Arizona.
Source: The Arizona Republic/ Brent Whiting, February 28, 1992

8 GREYHOUNDS WERE FOUND SHOT TO DEATH IN A LEMON GROVE outside Chandler, Arizona. The dogs' left ears had been cut off to remove identifying tattoo numbers.
Source: Chandler Tribune/ September 19, 1991

2 FEMALE GREYHOUNDS WERE DISCOVERED IN A DUMPSTER AT A GREYHOUND KENNEL IN PHOENIX, ONE BLUDGEONED WITH AN OBJECT DESCRIBED AS A CLAW HAMMER. Both dogs were 50% underweight and close to death. Inside the kennel, one greyhound was found dead and approximately 50 others were found in poor condition.
Source: The Arizona Republic, September 30, 1990

101 SICK, SKELETAL GREYHOUNDS WERE CARRIED OUT OF A GREYHOUND KENNEL in Tucson. 36 of the dogs could not be kept alive.
Source: Tucson Citizen/ Carla McClain, July 12, 1990

THE BODIES OF 35 GREYHOUNDS WERE FOUND THREE WEEKS AFTER THE DOGS HAD DIED OF THIRST AND STARVATION at a Yuma training farm. Some dogs were locked into kennels; others were found in a fenced in area.in Tucson.
Source: The Sun/ Loren Listiak, June 27, 1990

AN ENTIRE KENNEL OF STARVED, DEHYDRATED GREYHOUNDS WAS DISCOVERED WITHIN THE YUMA TRACK COMPOUND. Some dogs weighed less than 20 pounds.
Source: Court Affadavit on file with the Greyhound Protection League, Yuma, Arizona, 1989

2 ARIZONA DOG DEALERS FRADULENTLY SOLD AT LEAST 600 GREYHOUNDS TO SEVERAL RESEARCH FACILITIES between 1988 and 1989, according to USDA records. 20 greyhounds were slated for an eight week bone breaking experiment at the Letterman Army Insitute at the Presidio, but were later released after public outcry.
Source: PCRM Update/ July/August 1990

141 GREYHOUNDS WERE POISONED WITH A PESTICIDE USED TO KILL FLEAS AND TICKS THAT WAS MIXED INTO THEIR FOOD in 1986.
Source: The Arizona Republic/ Brent Whiting, February 28, 1992