Every year in Ireland over 30,000 greyhounds are killed by the greyhound racing industry. After they are finished their racing career, they are often brutally murdered - greyhounds have been found in ditches and at the bottom of canals, usually with their ears cut off (this is where their tattoos that identify their owner are). They have been found battered to death, and shot in the head with a bolt gun. They are often sold to vivisection labs or to Asia where they are eaten, or to Spain where the racing conditions are the worst in the world. Dogs are raced pregnant, sick and with no veterinary care. After which they are hung from a tree to die - the faster dogs are hung higher up the tree to die quicker. Greyhounds are a commodity and there are many more dogs that never even make it into the racing industry, as they are too slow. Out of the 40,000 dogs bred annually here and in the UK approximately that same number are disposed of ever year by the greyhound racing industry. Ask yourself, where are all the greyhounds?