Importation of Greyhounds

[Alan Williams]

couldn't believe it when I was told a canterbury trainer has just imported 5 greyhounds from Australia. In a time when we should be finding home for what dogs are here. GRNZ must have rocks in there heads to allow this to happen. Are these dogs being sent back to Australia when the ban comes in or is it another 5 dogs we have to find homes for or is the trainer going to look after them 

[Palliser]

On 4/11/2025 at 3:03 PM, Alan Williams said:

couldn't believe it when I was told a canterbury trainer has just imported 5 greyhounds from Australia. In a time when we should be finding home for what dogs are here. GRNZ must have rocks in there heads to allow this to happen. Are these dogs being sent back to Australia when the ban comes in or is it another 5 dogs we have to find homes for or is the trainer going to look after them 

If true, then that really is typical of why the greyhound industry in this Country has achieved the status of hopeless 

[Susan]

Didn’t 80 go to Aussie a couple of weeks ago so really they need 75 more imports.

[meomy]

On 4/11/2025 at 3:03 PM, Alan Williams said:

couldn't believe it when I was told a canterbury trainer has just imported 5 greyhounds from Australia. In a time when we should be finding home for what dogs are here. GRNZ must have rocks in there heads to allow this to happen. Are these dogs being sent back to Australia when the ban comes in or is it another 5 dogs we have to find homes for or is the trainer going to look after them 

Much better to have Greyhounds imported and exported to boost the economy than some of the inferior rubbish we have coming into the country that's been permitted since Deregulation, isn't it?

 

As an aside, Steve Abel who put submissions in to Chloe Swarbrick who introduced the bill to ban Greyhounds has a very close association with the Green Party.

 

Grant Robertson who pushed for Greyhounds to do something about the industry did so during the era of the most stringent State of Emergency New Zealand has ever had which meant that people who may normally have become aware of pending changes and legal rights to raise matters in public meetings were disproportionately excluded. That in itself is a serious injustice and may be deemed to be repugnant to the inherent rights of those involved in whatever way with the Racing and Breeding etc of Greyhounds 

 

Note also in the Allen & Clarke draft related to Minimising Gambling the lean towards who is after an increase of Public Funds to line there own pockets.

 

It pays to cross reference who is lurking in the background with there own Agendas.

[Idolmite]

9 hours ago, meomy said:

As an aside, Steve Abel who put submissions in to Chloe Swarbrick who introduced the bill to ban Greyhounds has a very close association with the Green Party..

Steve Abel has "has a very close association with the Green Party"??? He's a member of parliament for said party, the masters of self-implosion. That's extremely inseparably close.