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plumeria · Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 106

Revealed: the man who killed 10,000 dogs
Daniel Foggo

THE secret slaughter of at least 10,000 racing greyhounds by one man has been exposed by an undercover investigation.
For the past 15 years David Smith, a builders’ merchant, has been killing healthy greyhounds no longer considered by their trainers to be fast enough to race. He buries them in a one-acre plot at the back of his home in Seaham, Co Durham.

Last week The Sunday Times covertly filmed Smith on two consecutive days receiving greyhounds from trainers before killing them with a bolt gun, dumping them in the plot and covering over the “graves” using a mechanical digger.

He told an undercover reporter it took him three years to fill the field, at which point he simply started all over again. “Within a year the bodies have gone,” said Smith. “It takes me about three years to get across there and by the time I get there I can start back here again and there are only a few bones left.”

According to Sunday Times calculations and testimony of two racing insiders, it is conservatively estimated Smith has killed at least 10,000 dogs.

The scandal, described as the “canine killing fields” by one campaigner, has shocked the government and greyhound industry, which attracts bets of £2.5 billion a year.

Ben Bradshaw, minister for animal welfare, said Smith’s business was “horrendous” and promised an inquiry into the slaughter and potential health and environmental hazard of such a large-scale dumping of dogs’ bodies. Alistair McLean, chief executive of the National Greyhound Racing Club, which governs the sport, described it as a “euthanasia factory” and promised an inquiry. “This is disgraceful. We categorically don’t endorse this kind of thing,” he said.

The RSPCA has previously expressed “grave concerns” about the fate of up to 12,000 retired greyhounds that go missing every year. A spokesman said: “There is no justification for killing these animals simply because they can’t do their job any more.”

Smith charges owners and trainers £10 to kill unwanted dogs, many only a few years old. One trainer, who asked not to be named, said: “This man kills dogs for 40 licensed trainers and there are at least 10,000 dogs in his field. People in the industry have been going to him for years. Many of the bigwigs knew it was going on.”

Since 1997 anyone has been able to own a bolt gun to kill animals without a licence, although they can be prosecuted if the animals are put down inhumanely or without the owner’s permission. A new code of practice proposed under the animal welfare bill would restrict the killing of greyhounds to vets using “humane” lethal injections.

After being confronted this weekend Smith said he would stop killing dogs, which he said he had done in the past for “humane” reasons.

link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2272175,00.html

This is a national shame, a disgrace of epic proportions. To profit from the widespread slaughter of these noble animals, surely this must be a crime. It's an outrage that this man and the men who paid him are going to go scott free and no one in Britain is going to do anything about it.

micfranklin · Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 3:14 pm Post subject:

Sadly, dogs in Britain are clearly not man's best friend, otherwise all those dogs wouldn't be dead. Hopefully someone takes a shotgun and blows a bullet right up his twisted ass :evil:

Madtractor · Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 3

sometimes i wonder what/who are mans best friends? if animals/dogs aren't, then there is little hope for us...

i would quite happily be a vigilante fighting for animals rights

mad

micfranklin · Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 4:57 pm Post subject:

Madtractor wrote: sometimes i wonder what/who are mans best friends? if animals/dogs aren't, then there is little hope for us...

i would quite happily be a vigilante fighting for animals rights

mad

I'd gladly join any animal defense group.

micfranklin · Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 4:57 pm Post subject:

Madtractor wrote: sometimes i wonder what/who are mans best friends? if animals/dogs aren't, then there is little hope for us...

i would quite happily be a vigilante fighting for animals rights

mad

I'd gladly join any animal defense group so I could shout out how wrong it is to harm animals.

spearsy23 · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 5586 Location: Fulton, Ks

micfranklin wrote: Sadly, dogs in Britain are clearly not man's best friend, otherwise all those dogs wouldn't be dead. Hopefully someone takes a shotgun and blows a bullet right up his twisted ass :evil:

If they've got a shotgun they're not going to blow a bullet up his ass.

JackarooSundown · Joined: 29 Oct 2005 Posts: 433 Location: Three thirty.

spearsy23 wrote: micfranklin wrote: Sadly, dogs in Britain are clearly not man's best friend, otherwise all those dogs wouldn't be dead. Hopefully someone takes a shotgun and blows a bullet right up his twisted ass :evil:

If they've got a shotgun they're not going to blow a bullet up his ass.

:rotf:

Demonic Spoon · Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 6788 Location: Ohio

...

I find it ironic that something like this is posted, but you don't post stories over the mass amounts of cattle that are killed for food. Why is that?

JackarooSundown · Joined: 29 Oct 2005 Posts: 433 Location: Three thirty.

Demonic Spoon wrote: ...

I find it ironic that something like this is posted, but you don't post stories over the mass amounts of cattle that are killed for food. Why is that?

Because that is what cows are made for. Dogs are meant to be happy and enjoy an elevated status above all other of our quadripedal comrades.

Pzatchok · Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 6945

Move to a few parts of Asia and that man would be called the neighborhood butcher.

Whats a man with a dog in NK? a pet owner.

Whats a men with three dogs in NK? A rancher.

Demonic Spoon · Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 6788 Location: Ohio

Quote:
Because that is what cows are made for. Dogs are meant to be happy and enjoy an elevated status above all other of our quadripedal comrades.

Please tell me you are joking.

KungFuBob · Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 12

Demonic Spoon wrote: ...I find it ironic that something like this is posted, but you don't post stories over the mass amounts of cattle that are killed for food. Why is that?
Because cows are a bunch of commies! :wink:

JackarooSundown · Joined: 29 Oct 2005 Posts: 433 Location: Three thirty.

Demonic Spoon wrote: Quote:
Because that is what cows are made for. Dogs are meant to be happy and enjoy an elevated status above all other of our quadripedal comrades.

Please tell me you are joking.

Naturally.

John Galt · Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 20926 Location: Minnesota

Had they served their purpose better their owners would not have felt the need to dispose of them. They are just dogs, and they all had quick deaths. Greyhounds are ugly as well and I don't particularly like them. One of my highschool's mascots was the greyhound. Terribly lanky animal. Bred too much as well... not particularly good dogs. So no one wants them once they have outlived their usefullness. I don't see exactly what the problem is here. We put dogs to death everyday. Thousands, everyday. People call that humane. Hell, PETA puts thousands of dogs down.

Hyde · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:51 pm Post subject:

John Galt wrote: Had they served their purpose better their owners would not have felt the need to dispose of them. They are just dogs, and they all had quick s. Greyhounds are ugly as well and I don't particularly like them. One of my highschool's mascots was the greyhound. Terribly lanky animal. Bred too much as well... not particularly good dogs. So no one wants them once they have outlived their usefullness. I don't see exactly what the problem is here. We put dogs to everyday. Thousands, everyday. People call that humane. Hell, PETA puts thousands of dogs down.

whats wrong with you. he killed 10,000 perfectly healthy dogs. you are sick.

Demonic Spoon · Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 6788 Location: Ohio

Flaming a moderator is a really bad idea

And, once again, what makes these dogs more worthy of life than all the cows and pigs that are killed for food?

Hyde · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:02 pm Post subject:

Demonic Spoon wrote: Flaming a moderator is a really bad idea

And, once again, what makes these dogs more worthy of life than all the cows and pigs that are killed for food?

well...we use those cows as food. he slaughtered these dogs and then just through them into a pit. he could have sent them to some organization like the spca and allowed that dog to live and have a home instead of mindlessly slaughtering them. and i should step down just because he's a mod? forget that. he's sick and i'm going to say it just like i would say to anyone else in here.

Demonic Spoon · Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 6788 Location: Ohio

No, I never said you should step down because he's a mod..I agree treating a moderator differently is stupid.

But when you flame a mod, you can be sure a mod is going to notice it.

And what's your point? Who gives a rats ass if we use them as food? We don't need steak; we WANT it. We could just as easily eat vegetables.

So why are dogs worthy of life and not cows?

Wolverine · Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 10835 Location: Podunk, Colorado

*shrug shoulders*

Like DM said, why isn't there a thread about cattle? Its a dog, just another animal, they don't deserve an "elevated status" above all other animals.

But wait, where the thread about PETA killing animals? PETA killed OVER 10,000 dogs.
And another site.
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

social · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:33 pm Post subject:

The shame of Britain eh? I would've thought Britian's imperial past, its part in slavery, its..*cough*..role in the arms trade, would be its shame.