Massachusetts

MASSACHUSETTS GREYHOUND OWNER CHARGED WITH SIX COUNTS OF ANIMAL CRUELTY
Six greyhounds were reportedly found in serious neglect in an unheated kennel near Rayhnam Greyhound Park. Kevin Holloway of Halifax, Mass, a former kennel worker at the track, was charged with six counts of cruelty to animals following a month-long investigation by the Animal Rescue League of Boston (ARL). According to an ARL source, a total of nine malnourished greyhounds were found at the kennel and showed signs of long-term neglect. Holloway reportedly told investigators that he 'got in way over his head…and did not feed them all the time.' A Raynham track official claimed to have reported the deplorable conditions to the National Greyhound Association, the industry's breeding association, a year earlier.
Sources: Taunton Daily Gazette, The Boston Globe (2/9/00); WFXT-25 - Fox 25 News Ten

MIDGET, A 55-POUND FEMALE, WAS CRUSHED TO DEATH DURING A RACE AT RAYNHAM/TAUNTON GREYHOUND PARK IN JUNE 2000. Midget broke out of the box in the lead, but was caught in between several other dogs as they approached the first turn. She suffered a broken neck and died instantly.
Source: The Brockton Enterprise - July 2, 2000

NINE INJURED AND SEVERELY EMACIATED GREYHOUNDS USED FOR BREEDING PURPOSES WERE FOUND HOUSED IN AN UNHEATED KENNEL NEAR RAYNHAM-TAUNTON GREYHOUND PARK. The owner of the dogs, a former assistant greyhound trainer at the Raynham track, admitted to humane officers that 'he did not feed them all the time.' Investigating officer Christopher Charbonneau said, "It's one of the most serious cases of neglect I've seen on my twelve years on the job."
Source: Greyhound Network News, Spring, 2000

EIGHT GREYHOUNDS DIED IN THE FOURTH FIRE IN 13 YEARS AT WONDERLAND'S KENNEL COMPOUND in Lynn, Massachusetts. This brings the death toll due to fire at the compound to more than 120. Firefighters were delayed in their efforts due to the tightly screwed caps on the private hydrant on the property. Despite public outrage after a fire at the same compound in 1992 resulting in the death of 87 greyhounds, no sprinklers were ever installed.
Source: Boston Herald/ Azell Murphy Cavaan, June 20, 1999, The Boston Globe/ Sara Neufield, June 20, 1999, Daily Evening Item/ Beth Rogers, June 21, 1999

AN ABANDONED GREYHOUND AND HER FIVE PUPPIES WERE DISCOVERED near the Saugus, Massachusetts town line.
Source: Daily Evening Item/ David Liscio, November 10, 1999

MASSACHUSETTS LICENSED GREYHOUND TRAINERS AND OWNERS DONATED MORE THAN 100 GREYHOUNDS FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH TO COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY, according to public records. Greyhound industry members, including some of the top trainers in the country, donated more than 2,600 greyhounds in total from 1995-1998. Approximately one-third of the dogs were used in teaching labs where they were killed after use; the remainder were killed within 24 hours of arrival at the facility.
Source: Colorado State University USDA Intake Records/ Rocky Mountain News - June 7, 1998

RACER C.G. DUDE HAD A HEAVY GAUGE WIRE INSERTED INTO THE SHEATH OF HIS PENIS WITHOUT ANESTHETIC by trainer John Duncan at a track in Raynham, Massachusetts, supposedly to keep the dog from sexual arousal that might alter his racing performance. Duncan reportedly performed this procedure regularly on male dogs in his care.
Source: Boston Globe/ Larry Tye, Robin Romano, November 8, 1992

87 GREYHOUNDS BURNED TO DEATH IN A FIRE AT A WOODEN KENNEL COMPOUND in Lynn, Massachusetts when flames ignited the shredded paper lining their cages. The independently-owned compound houses an estimated 1,000 dogs racing at Massachusetts' Wonderland racetrack. The state has no restrictions in its racing rules and regulations regarding housing and general treatment of the dogs.
Source: Boston Globe/ Brian McGrory, February 14, 1992

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