Whats Happening in Guam?
The island of Guam in the South Pacific ran a greyhound track for 32 years which closed in November of 2008. The following excerpt was taken from www.guamgreyhounds.org:
On November 24, the Guam Greyhound Park started a public giveaway of 150 of the racetrack’s greyhounds. Dogs were given away free to anyone who came to the track. None of the greyhounds were spayed or neutered. No record was kept of who got the greyhounds, how many each person took and no legal transfer of title was made. Obviously, no standard adoption process was in place: no home check and no information about greyhound behavior or care.
It has been reported that many people took the free greyhounds believing they would make good guard dogs. Some of the islands dog fighting “fans” took greyhounds to bait fighting dogs or to breed, thinking it would make the fighting dogs faster or quicker. It didn’t take long for the greyhounds to show up stray or in very bad circumstances.
If it was not for Americans from the West Coast truly standing tall and trying to rectify a horrible situation, surely most of the dogs would have died. Now, each week, greyhounds take the long flight from Guam to Hawaii and then to Los Angeles, California. These dogs are being distributed to adoption programs across the west coast. NGAP did its part by shipping 18 oversized #700 kennels to California to be used for the airlift. Words cannot express the sadness you will feel when you view the pictures of the greyhounds being rescued from Guam.
Click below to read the heartwarming stories of this rescue.
