(For the woefully uninformed, a pierogi is a dumpling filled with potatoes, meat, fruit, etc. They are of Eastern Europe origin.)
It’s a dying breed. Too soon?
They’re reserving the tracks for us...
Greyhounds are a special breed. My best friend has 2 rescues and we walk at the dog park. Those 2 dogs will run around the perimeter 20 times, chasing no rabbits but just for the fun of it. They love to run. It’s what they do.
Bring on the cat races.
Here where I live in Florida, they have turned at least one of the Greyhound Tracks into a Poker Room, where gambling is still legal...
Another of the tracks is abandoned and looks like something out of the apocalypse....
How long will it be before the Maoists outlaw beef...chicken...pork...lamb...milk...cheese? They’ve made it clear that that’s their ultimate aim.
(For the woefully uninformed, a pierogi is a dumpling filled with potatoes, meat, fruit, etc. They are of Eastern Europe origin.)
In 2018 the voting public in the State of Florida was inundated with and subjected to exaggerated and false stories in the controlled media of “abused greyhounds” for months prior to the election, convicting the racing industry in the court of public opinion, to make sure that damned initiative passed. It was all a lie, those dogs loved racing and with very few exceptions were treated exceptionally well by their owners and handlers in the industry.
The “ballot initiative” process in the State of Florida is an unmitigated disgrace and disaster and a blatant abuse of power by an uneducated and uninformed mob of the voting public which is routinely propagandized and led by the nose by moneyed special interests on the left hellbent on curtailing free market economic activity and the Constitutional right of assembly.
Many residents lost employment and related small businesses closed as a result of this racing prohibition as well as thousands of talented and well-trained and cared for dogs now left to the vagaries of dog adoption in a state already inundated with dogs which annually have to be euthanized because there are no homes which can be found for them. The take at the tracks for these races was what kept the dogs economically and physically viable and gave them good lives.
Allowing uninformed and emotionally vulnerable voters to have control of the process of amending the state constitution by directly voting for crack-brained so-called “Amendment” schemes and then having them automatically become “law” is a direct affront to the powers and functions which are supposed to be reserved for the state legislature.
This malicious and devious run around the legislative process has become the left’s most productive wet dream. Uninformed emotionally unstable masses voting for ill-conceived but cleverly-disguised left-wing attacks on personal freedom and free market economic activity.
We are supposed to have a representative form of government but the left has turned the Florida Constitution into a grab bag of ill-conceived laws and prohibitions designed to further its nefarious goals.
Am not sure how this particular genie got out of the bottle down here but we see it every election year most notably from the high speed rail idiots who continually attempt to enlist this perverse political process in its efforts to get property owners to foot the bill for a boondoggle high speed passenger rail system which it hopes will get Floridians out of their pickup trucks and SUV’s forever.
Am also not sure what the hell the remedy is going to be to get this nightmare process purged from our state before it makes of the state a Marxist hellhole.
I used to go to the track in St Pete, and later to the PBKC. I knew it was just a matter of time when they replaced the rabbit with “Wishbone”.
ff
Celebrating this ending all the way.
Greyhound buses will be torched by angry mobs.
Yea the same idiots that lock their dog in a cage for 12 hours a day while at work think dog racing is cruel. We grew up with it. Race tracks in Wisconsin had picnic tables outside and playgrounds for the kids. They would parade the dogs around so kids could pet them. It was a family day out.
Use the parks to host transsexual games. That would limit the location of cootie spreading, with plenty of room for the audience.
This schmuck is part of the reason that his sport is going extinct. Like horse racing, dog racing is a sport where the patrons participate. They participate by looking at the histories of the animals' past races and their owner/trainer records and trying to predict the future. 15 minutes isn't nearly enough time to do this. But it's fun to try. Would that racing had marketing people who knew how to promote their sport. It isn't about something that happens briefly at 15 minute intervals or once a year for two minutes in May.
ML/NJ
If liberals and PETA get they way, they won’t stop at horse racing either. The sport is booming at various levels. Handles (wagering) were set in 2020 at many jurisdictions. Purchasing at auctions were near or at record highs. Ban the sport of horse racing and the breeding of thoroughbreds becomes non existent and the breed eventually obsolete. Liberals refuse to acknowledge the care and attention the animals received from countless hours of care from maintenance personnel. Like anything else, the rare bad in society gets elevated and the good pushed to the deep side.
I have no problem with the ending of this. Horse racing and circuses too.
Throw in marine parks like SeaWorld.
Zoos are a close second.
It’s animal exploitation for human entertainment. Play a video game or read a book instead.
I have participated in these things and am now not proud of it. I will NOT in the future.
I am NOT an “animal rights activist. Animals don’t have “legal rights” unless we give them rights. Hunting, protection laws etc.
I do love animals, usually more than most people. (even CATS)
Hunting is fine. I used to hunt. If you consume the kill or someone does or if you are part of wildlife management, I’m okay with that. Pure “trophy” hunting, I’m not okay with.
Torturing animals to run around a track, then throw them away, I also don’t support.
Cock fighting and dog fighting are an abomination!
Human fighting like boxing and MMA is a close second. Barbaric.