I did an ink portrait of my beautiful foster boy, Brice ( @good.dog.fosterer ). . I'm getting excited for #inktober ! I don't think I'll be able to participate every day (because I'm moving house and also doing @finders_keepers in October) but I'll do my best!!! Who else is doing #inktober this year?! . . . #illustration #drawing #art #design #ink #painting #greyhound #adoptadog #adoptdontshop #rescue #fosterdog #petsnotbets https://www.instagram.com/p/BoBCFhPHGXD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3txcz6mxs95q
A message from my long time friend @warriorforanimals I'm protesting the richest greyhound race in Australia because it is time to shut it down for animal cruelty. Dogs are slaughtered for being too slow to win races, over 17,000 young dogs are killed each year in Australia by the greyhound racing industry. #BanGreyhoundRacing #PetsNotBets #ShutItDown https://www.instagram.com/p/B390iKSDO8y/?igshid=mjflzogt1ylx
Enjoying time in the garden this weekend 😍 dodging the rain! . . . #longdoggo #lurcher #instagramdogs #instahound #greyhound #greyhound_feature #rescuedog #whippet_feature #dogs #petsnotbets
Absolutely thrilled to repost this fabulous news from @grey2kusa one step closer! ・・・ Greyt News! Florida Constitution Revision Commission Executive Committee just voted unanimously in favor of Proposal 67 for the greyhounds! One more vote and the dog racing ban will be placed on the November ballot in the sunshine state. 📷 Jade of FL . . . . . #BanGreyhoundRacing #AdoptDontShop #Petsnotbets #shopgoodcubed #crueltyfreefuture #florida
#Repost @dp4k.m (@get_repost) ・・・ #Repost @animalsaustralia Australian greyhound trainers who have pleaded guilty to shipping dogs to China will only be banned from racing for 2.5 years. By then, the dogs they abandoned overseas will likely be dead. Do you think rules are tough enough? ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ #greyhoundracing #truthaboutgreyhoundracing #petsnotbets #companionsnotcommodities #endgreyhoundracing #bangreyhoundracing #cultureofcruelty #adoptdontshop #rescuedracer #retiredracer #livebaiting #adoptagreyhound #shutitdown #endgreyhoundexports #greyhoundexports #macau #canidrome #shanghai. #picoftheday #dog
#Repost @dp4k.m (@get_repost) ・・・ #Repost @animalsaustralia Australian greyhound trainers who have pleaded guilty to shipping dogs to China will only be banned from racing for 2.5 years. By then, the dogs they abandoned overseas will likely be dead. Do you think rules are tough enough? ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ ▫️ #greyhoundracing #truthaboutgreyhoundracing #petsnotbets #companionsnotcommodities #endgreyhoundracing #bangreyhoundracing #cultureofcruelty #adoptdontshop #rescuedracer #retiredracer #livebaiting #adoptagreyhound #shutitdown #endgreyhoundexports #greyhoundexports #macau #canidrome #shanghai
Love is like a wildflower garden, there’s all sorts of colours to be found 🌈
Today is the last day of Pride Month, and what better way to mark it than a colourful rainbow of hounds in a rainbow wildflower garden! 🌸 Us Greyhounds come in all colours and sizes, and we don’t care who our humans love as long as they love us too! There’s no room for hate or bigotry in our Rescue Hound Pack (unless it’s hating Greyhound Racing of course! ❌)!
We hope everyone had a joyous Pride Month! Stay Loud and Proud 🌈
#ImageDescription: Robert the Greyhound (fawn/blonde) stands beside Molly (brindle) and Ned (Black) the Greyhounds wearing anti-racing vests and rainbow bandanas in a wildflower garden.
Look at all of these incredibly beautiful greyhound pieces!!!! The gloriously loving humans at @houndandboneprinters have gathered artists together to help raise funds for @greytgreysrescue - a volunteer run, non profit rescue group dedicated to rehoming ex-racing greyhounds. As you all know, I'm a HUGE advocate for the rescue and rehibilittiin of ex-racing greyhounds (being a foster carer myself), so this cause is VERY important to me. @houndandboneprinters have donated all paper/printing/packaging and the artworks in this fundraiser have been donated by the artists. @sophiemcpike @lauren_guymer @nevahosking @Ashleyronning @madisonrgriffiths @gala.sphere @cami11e__ . . . . #fundraiser #cause #donate #houndandbone #artist #illustration #greyhound #greyhoundrescue #bangreyhoundracing #petsnotbets (at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
Repost By animalliberationorg: 💔 We are sorry Drunken Jake and Kasatka. - Another two victims of the cruel greyhound racing industry. - ☠️ Drunken Jake and Kasatka were killed after suffering broken wrists on NSW tracks last week. - The footage shows Drunken Jake falling at an incredible speed. - Australia, it is time to ban greyhound racing! - #PetsNotBets #CompanionNotCommodity #BanGreyhoundRacing (via #EasyRepost @AppKottage) #picoftheday
I made a small lino print of the Cuddle Puddle Puppers!!! The next 15 people to purchase a Cuddle Puddle Puppers will will snag a free lino print!!! Yay!!! Free stuff!!!! . And yes... I used a glue stick as a roller! I lost my usual one! Haha . . . #lino #linoprint #pingame #pastelpin #bigpin #artpin #cutepin #dogpin #printmaking #print #blockprint #greyhoundsofinstagram #greyhound #petsnotbets
That is a sentence used by practically every pro-greyhound racing supporter at some stage during any greyhound racing argument. And there’s a kernel of truth there, you can’t stop a dog from running, and Greyhound do indeed love to run and have a genetic instinct to chase. But what happens when the dog doesn’t want to run?
This is Greyhound “Songful Bird”. She is 23 months old, born and bred in Ireland, exported and racing in the UK. Whilst being loaded into Trap Two at Kinsley Greyhound Track, Songful Bird very clearly did not want to enter the box and struggled to get away from the steward/handler. She made a break from the box but was pinned to the ground by Four grown men and roughly manhandled back into the trap. Upon leaving the box, she veers dramatically across the track, almost clipping another dog and endangering the rest with her erratic running pattern. This is not a dog running for fun, but a dog, panicked and running in fear.
Songful Bird very clearly did not want to race at this occasion, and despite her attempt to flee, was forced into a situation where she was distressed, roughly handled and potentially suffered physically injury but the grown man falling ontop of her or the resulting blind panic run away from her aggressors. The race should have been stopped at the first sign of issue, or the very least, Songful Bird should have been pulled from the running. But the bookmakers were already set up and ready, and for them, the show must go on.
Very telling that none of the stewards present felt anything was wrong forcefully shoving the dog into the trap, and that neither a track vet or welfare officer stepped in at any point to remove the clearly distressed dog from the situation. If welfare was truly at the heart of Greyhound Racing, Songful Bird would not have been put through this abuse.