Connecticut

9 EMACIATED GREYHOUNDS APPARENTLY DEPRIVED OF FOOD AND BEDDING WERE BROUGHT TO A LOCAL VETERINARY OFFICE by rescue workers. One of the animals was almost unconscious and near death. The dogs had been in the care of a trainer at Connecticut's Plainfield Greyhound Park. The greyhounds were covered with sores, fleas and ticks and several were 20-25 pounds underweight. "They were all basically starving," said Dr. John Robb, the vet caring for them. Racing officials and track management at first insisted that the dogs could not have come from the Plainfield facility, but later admitted that they had. At least two of the dogs had raced recently.
Source: Associated Press, January 12, 1997, The Hartford Courant/ Lyn Bixby, January 30, 1997

OVER 400 FORMER AMERICAN RACING GREYHOUNDS, INCLUDING MANY ORIGINALLY FROM NEW ENGLAND AND FLORIDA, WERE FOUND ABANDONED AND STARVING IN THEIR CRATES at a bankrupt race track on Margarita Island, Venezuela. Humane officials discovered sixty-one dogs already dead and later euthanized fifteen others. According to one humane official, the greyhounds were dying at a rate of five a day.
Source: Boston Globe/Robin Romano, December 31, 1993