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Deep divisions in "Doggie" commnunity

category international | animal rights | opinion/analysis author Saturday March 05, 2011 13:52author by Battling Cruelty to Animals in Ireland Report this post to the editors

Greyhound industry in turmoil

Hares getting a break...Coursing and greyhound racing fans savaging each other!
What the nice coursing folk enjoy watching when they're not savaging each other
What the nice coursing folk enjoy watching when they're not savaging each other

Fans of hare coursing and greyhound racing seem to taking a break from setting dogs after hares and beating unwanted greys to death with spades (or hanging them)...they're tearing each other apart on the net!

The more respectable fans post on a site called Greyhound Knowledge Forum, which is accessible to the public and in no way secretive to be fair to it, while a smaller hardcore element post on a site called Greyhound Nuts, which is restricted to fans who have a special devotion to the "sport" of hare coursing.

Bitter recriminations are flying back and forth on both sites concerning how the Irish Coursing Club has handled a series of challenges to the "sport", with many fans questioning how the club managed to find itself on the brink of financial wipe-out. The name-calling and scurrilous accusations on Greyhound Nuts have to be read to be believed. Anti-coursing activists have heavily infiltrated "Nuts" to keep tabs on the exchanges.

The track men are attacking the coursing clubs, and the coursing diehards are slating track folk for not giving them more support at a time when the ICC is facing possible meltdown. Many track men are furious at having to pay a fee to a coursing club before they can race a dog on the track, a crazy rule that has seen vast amounts of money that ought to be going into greyhound racing go instead to hare coursing, apart from the unfairness of forcing all greyhound owners to pay money to coursing clubs.

Ah well, at least if they're attacking each other, the animals might get a well-deserved break!

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Been reading Greyhound Nuts Forum     Genuine sports fan    Sun Mar 06, 2011 00:30 
   Understanding animals?     Mike Novack    Mon Mar 07, 2011 18:07 
   Nature is Pitiless.     Top Cat.    Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:04 
   The difference?     Mike Novack    Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:46 
   ICC Costs     Jerry Hunt    Wed Mar 09, 2011 15:55 
   Costs yet to be awarded and ICC in big trouble     Friend of the Irish Hare    Thu Mar 10, 2011 21:39 
   Coursing     practical man    Thu Jun 23, 2011 11:21 
   Hare Coursing indefensible on all fronts     Countering pro-cruelty guff    Sat Jun 25, 2011 23:12 


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