The Northwest Animal Rights Network is a registered non-profit organization. All donations are tax-deductible. It is estimated that nearly 50,000 greyhounds are born every year, and twice that number, including pups and retired or aged greyhounds, are shot or sold to laboratories. Live lures are considered a must by trainers to get the dogs excited enough to chase the fake lure around the racetrack. When they cease to be profitable they are either shot or sold to laboratories that perform invasive physical and psychological tests.
Horses live just as unglamorous lives as greyhounds.
Racehorses are put on the track when they are only two years old, an age at which their bones have not yet matured enough to withstand the pounding on hard surfaces at unnatural speeds. Trainers drug their horses in order to minimize the pain of hairline fractures which, without drugs, would restrict the horses from being able to walk, let alone race at breakneck speed. Racehorses, like all other performance animals, are shackled by human-imposed constraints such as whips and blinders. The horse racing industry is also unique in that they are exempt from all anticruelty laws, according to Bob Baker, a Humane Society investigator. Individual states receive a percentage of every dollar wagered on horse races, and for this reason, state prosecutors are negligent in pursuing any cases that involve disputes with the racing commission.