New Hampshire

LOCAL FOX REPORTER BREAKS STORY ABOUT GREYHOUND KILLING AT NEW HAMPSHIRE TRACK. Last Monday, Fox 25 investigative reporter Mike Beaudet, based in Boston, looked into allegations that large numbers of adoptable greyhounds are being killed at Hinsdale Greyhound Park (HGP) and buried on racetrack property. read more
Source: Grey2K USA - February 8, 2003

GREY2K USA BOARD MEMBER FILES COMPLAINT AFTER GREYHOUND DIES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. Dr. Jill Hopfenbeck has filed a complaint against Hinsdale Greyhound Park veterinarian Dr. Carl Nelson for permitting a dog to race with collapsed lungs and massive internal bleeding. Sav's Wilson Lee or "Willie" was unable to finish his last race and collapsed before reaching the finish line. read more
Source: Grey2K USA - December 6, 2002

A TRUCK HAULING GREYHOUNDS OVERTURNED WHEN THE 19-YEAR OLD DRIVER FELL ASLEEP after driving virtually non-stop from New Hampshire to Georgia. No greyhounds were injured. The dogs were from the more than 500 greyhounds left behind by owners at the Lakes Region Track in New Hampshire every year at the end of the live racing season.
Source: WAGA-TV Atlanta, November 1, 1999, Gwinnett County Police Report, November 3, 1999

HUNDREDS OF DEAD GREYHOUNDS REPORTEDLY BURIED IN THE 1970'S ACROSS FROM THE SEABROOK, NEW HAMPSHIRE DOG TRACK WERE SPECUALTED TO BE THE CAUSE OF E. COLI BACTERIAL CONTAMINATION RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN THE TOWN'S WATER SUPPLY. Two wells near the track were found to be the cause of the contamination. One resident claimed 1,000 greyhounds were buried at the site in the 1970's. Water Superintendant Warner Knowles questioned that figure but said he had no firm numbers. Both wells are now permanently closed.
Source: The Hampton Union/ Susan Morse, September 13, 1996, WBZ-TV, September 11, 1996

7 GREYHOUNDS WERE SOLD BY A NEW HAMPSHIRE TRAINER TO A CANADIAN WHO INTENDED TO CROSS BREED THEM WITH HUSKIES TO MAKE FASTER SLED DOGS. After numerous rescue attempts, officials finally rescued the dogs from an unheated shed in freezing temperatures. The dogs were housed two to a crate.
Source: The Concord Monitor/ Ann Marie Timmons, January 11, 1996

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

38 GREYHOUNDS SHIPPED FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE WERE DISCOVERED IN THE KEY WEST TRACK COMPOUND LAYING IN THEIR OWN FECES AND VOMIT IN BARE WOODEN CRATES on October 16, 1990. Their trainer had not arrived. The dogs were grossly underweight.
Source: Miami Herald, February 27, 1991