Dear :

I am very disappointed to learn that [name of sponsor] is promoting greyhound racing. I urge you to stop supporting this cruel industry.

Each year, thousands of young greyhounds who are unable to run fast enough to win are killed. Additionally, every week at tracks around the country, truckloads of failed or injured greyhounds are killed or worse, sent to research laboratories. In total, the greyhound racing industry kills approximately 20,000-25,000 greyhounds annually in the United States alone.

Greyhounds routinely suffer inhumane treatment starting from the breeding farm, to the training farm, in transport, and at race tracks. Greyhounds who make it to racetracks are typically forced to live in crates for 18-20 hours per day. Some dogs are left muzzled almost constantly. Greyhound rescue groups nationwide routinely receive racing dogs riddled with external and internal parasites, open weeping sores, and broken bones because it is more profitable to bring in fresh dogs or neglect existing dogs than to provide proper care.

Contrary to industry propaganda, the majority of racing greyhounds are not adopted out as pets. With the already huge problem of pet overpopulation, with millions of cats and dogs being killed at shelters, it is just not possible to find homes for the thousands of dogs that the greyhound racing industry discards every year.

The killing and the abuse will never stop unless the greyhound industry is banned or goes bankrupt. Please educate yourself by going to the following web sites: http://www.greyhounds.org and http://www.grey2kusa.org. Please stop supporting this atrocity.

Sincerely,

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