Greyhounds used in Canine Blood Bank

[Catherine]

After a life of racing Greyhounds are being used as blood donors for other dogs.

Greyhounds are  the universal blood donors of the dog world. There blood can be used by most other dogs. 

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&...F_eFV5Saxg


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The whole idea of dog blood banks sounds so positive and life giving.
However there is going to be a dark side to it.
Not all dogs donors are pets living good lives helping other dogs to live.

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&...YLvbVbc1-w

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&...GsvOT_S1mA


It is not wrong for greyhounds to give blood, but it is certainly wrong to house the dogs in squalor and bleed them over and over like that.
We have a situation where it is not what is being done that is the problem. The problem is how it is being done.

Sadly we have found another way to "factory Farm" something.
If we persist in the factory farming model the whole idea of dog blood banks could fail. Lives would be  lost as a result. 
We need to fight the negative methods of  producing blood. Voluntary donations from healthy pets is a much better way to do this. We really need to choose the better way.

[Tobi]

This is deeply saddening indeed. You are right we have to find a way to stop this. I didn't know things like that were going on. WHY do humans have to think up those sorts of schemes?? WHY?

[Catherine]

There are greyhound owners who are willing to bring their dogs to give blood on a reasonable schedule. It doesn't hurt the dog's health and they don't mind doing it. Why do we have to turn it into a "factory farming" experience for the dogs. The "farmed" dogs are not pets and they have miserable lives just like they did on the race tracks. 

Something good like dogs helping other dogs is being turned into a terrible act of cruelty. They run the dogs into the ground because they don't care if they die. They will just get some new ones.  How do we think these things up? Who gets the idea that a good thing could make more money if we make it into a bad thing. It is the money isn't it. Once money is the main motivation things will go badly.

[Tobi]

(09-24-2017, 06:52 PM)Catherine Wrote:   How do we think these things up? Who gets the idea that a good thing could make more money if we make it into a bad thing. It is the money isn't it. Once money is the main motivation things will go badly.

Yes sadly, that's what it's about.
It's the survival instinct gone crazy. The only animal (insect actually) I can think of who does those kinds of things is the Ant, who 'farms' Aphids. But you can bet your life the methods are not quite as cruel as ones humans could dream up.

I hope something can be done to help those dogs? Is there anything online which we can make a stand and protest about?
I'll take a look tonight when I have more time.

[Catherine]

I will look for a petition. This dog farming needs to be stopped.

It puts the dogs receiving the blood at risk. Farmed dogs are not well and they could carry all kinds of illnesses. These illnesses would be transmitted to the dogs receiving the blood. 

It is cruel by nature to the donor dogs. They deserve good lives in happy homes. 

What is it about greyhounds that they are subject to abuse through most of their lives. They are gentle graceful dogs. Why are they not treated well?