For decades, greyhound racing has appeared resilient to welfare concerns. Despite ongoing media exposés about injury rates, training methods, doping and questions about how racing dogs live when ...

For years, greyhound adoption networks have provided a safety net for the racetracks’ discarded dogs (“Want a Pet Greyhound? Good Luck,” Personal Journal, Feb. 9). Compassionate adopters have provided ...

This year, greyhound racing in Britain turns 100 years old. The first race ran on July 24 1926 in Manchester, where six dogs chased a mechanical hare around a track. Recently, the Greyhound Board of ...

It’s been more than four years since New South Wales greyhound racing was rocked by a special inquiry that found overwhelming evidence of systemic animal cruelty, including mass killings. Overbreeding ...

Nearly 1,000 greyhound racing dogs either died or were killed last year in England, leading animal welfare groups to call for an end to the sport in the United Kingdom. The staggering death numbers ...

Greyhound racing has returned to Lithgow after a multi-million-dollar redevelopment of the track, but animal welfare groups say the upgrade will not stop dogs dying at the circuit.

TAUNTON – Denise Schumitz calls greyhound dogs “the 45 mph couch potato.” They run fast in short sprints, but don’t require much exercise beyond routine walks and play, are quite passive, and tend to ...

20 greyhound dogs have been rescued from Madrid, Sprain and brought to the United states, with five of them coming to Kansas City directly.

WEST MEMPHIS — It’s the end of an era — not just for West Memphis, where greyhound racing began more than 100 years ago on dirt tracks at local farms — but also for the state and region. At the end of ...