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Originally Posted by molson
It's not so much as a breakdown issue - it's the way they're treated between races and when their career is over.
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There's good trainers and kennel owners and bad trainers and kennel owners, but the overwhelming majority of them are good.
As for what happens after their careers are over, greyhounds retire at young ages. Even the greats, who go the longest, generally retire at 5, maybe 6 years old at most.
That results in a lot of dogs, more than can be adopted out. I'll admit, I don't pretend to know what the answer is, but there's a lot of demonization of the greyhound racing industry that irks me, because much of the truly heinous activity is done by at most a handful of people.
Though I'll concede the fault in that lies in regulation and background checking that could certainly stand to be improved across state lines.