Colorado
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THAN 2,600 GREYHOUNDS WERE DONATED FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH TO COLORADO
STATE UNIVERSITY BY COLORADO BREEDERS AND TRAINERS FROM JANUARY
1995-MARCH 1998, according to public records. Approximately
one third of the dogs were used in terminal teaching labs where
they were killed after use; the remainder were "excess"
and were euthanized within 24 hours of arrival at the facility.
Approximately 80% of the donated greyhounds were three years old
or younger. In a news story exposing the flow of excess greyhounds
into labs at CSU, Denver KGMH-TV Channel 7 (November 1993) aired
footage of the bloodied and mutilated remains of greyhounds and
the unsanitary holding pens the greyhounds were kept in until
they were killed.
Source: Rocky Mountain News/ Dan Luzadder, June
7, 1998
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GREYHOUNDS WERE TO BE SHIPPED FROM CANYON CITY, COLORADO TO HONG
KONG TO RACE IN MACAU, ACCORDING TO A 1992 ARTICLE. In Febraury
of 1994, English greyhound trainer Colin Bastafield described
his experience working in Macau to a British reporter: "The
dogs there are literally raced to the death and rarely last more
than six months," he noted. According to Bastafield, 40 dogs
per month are regularly sent from Britain to Hong Kong on a twenty
six hour journey in cramped crates. Four dogs per trip typically
are dead on arrival.
Source: Jet Cargo News, March 1992, The People,
February 16, 1994
BLOODIED
AND MUTILATED GREYHOUNDS were shown in footage exposing the
flow of excess greyhounds into labs at Colorado State University.
The university reportedly receives and uses about 450 greyhounds
a year. The graphic footage showed unsanitary conditions of CSU's
holding pens.
Source: Denver KGMH-TV Channel 7 / Julie Hayden,
November 1993
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RACING GREYHOUNDS DIED IN TRANSIT APPARENTLY FROM DEHYDRATION
OR HEAT STRESS in a hauling vehicle travelling through the
Arizona desert from Colorado.
Source: Tucson Citizen/ Carla McClain, August
14, 1993