In October, state inspectors at Tucson Greyhound Park discovered a
little problem.
It seems that Kennel No. 1, recently home to 58 dogs, was a filthy
mess. A smattering of dog diarrhea—affectionately known as
“blowout” in the business—covered one wall. A bucket of putrid
water sat next to cages. Dog crap was abundant.
Or to quote the Arizona Department of Racing Report, inspectors
found:
• Black water in a bucket with a foul odor.
• Filth-splattered walls.
• Urine, blood and fecal stains on floors and walls.
• Spoiled food on the floor.
• Dog fur and other debris in the dog crates.
• Filthy conditions in the concrete area next to the
dog-turnout pens.
Then came the fleas. Oh, the fleas. For inspector Tommy Sanchez, it
was a skin-crawling experience. “On approximately 10/4/08, TGP had the
kennel bombed for fleas and ticks,” his report began.
Four days later, he entered the building with a veterinarian, and
they “conducted an inspection of the kennel, and no follow-up had been
done. There were thousands of dead fleas on the floor, filthy carpets
still in the crates, filthy crates, urine stains, feces (blowout) on
walls.”
They fetched a camera and returned “to take pictures of the filthy
conditions,” Sanchez continues. “When we arrived to the rear of the
kennel, our shoes and pants were completely covered in fleas up to our
knees, and they were still climbing.
“We quickly exited the kennel,” he writes, “closed the door and
worked desperately at removing the fleas from our clothing.”
But they weren’t quick enough. The infestation had so festered that
fleas eventually appeared in the ADR’s onsite offices, as well as those
of track administrators.
On Oct. 8, 2008, itchy officials gave Tucson Greyhound Park 24 hours
to clean things up, and track manager Tom Taylor assured them that
another exterminator was on the way. But on Oct. 10, janitors were
still unable to enter the kennel because of fleas, and Taylor told
state officials that the kennel would be cleaned a day later. Fleas
apparently kept that cleaning crew at bay; a follow-up inspection on
Oct. 16 revealed continuing filthy and infested conditions.
Finally, by Oct. 31—nearly three weeks after he was first
notified—Taylor had the kennel spiffed up and the fleas
eradicated.
Today, he has plenty of explanations for how this kennel at his park
became so nasty. For one, he says, the kennel operator, a Mr. Randy
Jordan, found himself low on cash. So the two men came to a mutual
agreement that Jordan would vacate.
However, according to the state report, “Trainer Randy Jordan …
was removed from the kennel due to numerous violations.”
Taylor disputes that, saying, “Randy closed his kennel down; we took
all the dogs and moved them out to different kennels. … Randy went
out of business. It was not due to any violations.”
But actually, says ADR Director Luis Marquez, Jordan’s record
includes a batch of violations. They included greyhounds weighing more
than their officially registered weight—which could skew betting
odds. There were also “drug violations on animals that he was racing,”
Marquez says, which garnered the trainer a $250 fine.
So with Jordan gone, what happened next was apparently a lot of
nothing. Or perhaps more of the same: Taylor contends that “the kennel
operator … moved out of that building, and we didn’t go in there and
clean it for two weeks. And the state went in and saw those
conditions.”
Marquez offers a slightly different take. “A situation like that,”
he says, “does not occur within two weeks.”
According to Taylor, however, the dog quarters are normally
spotless. “I mean, they clean those kennels three times a day,” he
says, adding that they’re also routinely inspected. “The state does it
twice a month, and we do it twice a month.”
But Marquez says the department beefed up its monitoring to
twice-monthly visits because of conditions exposed at Kennel No.
1. Before that, the track was inspected only periodically. “At the time
that we discovered this, we had to make changes in how we were doing
inspections,” he says. “We did some cross-training between our
investigative-division inspector and our veterinarians so that they
would be consistent. We also rotate now, so it’s not (always) the same
person doing the inspection.”
With Tucson Greyhound Park now under heightened scrutiny, the ADR
obviously hopes to avoid repeating the misery of Kennel No. 1. To
Taylor, though, it all remains just a wild aberration. “Most of our
kennels back there are extremely clean,” he says. “I could eat off
their floor.”
But we’ll have to take his word on that; he refused to let me visit
to witness conditions firsthand. “It wouldn’t be possible,” he says,
“and there would be no physical reason for you to do that.”
Taylor’s excuses—particularly laying the blame for conditions
on kennel-renters such as Jordan—simply don’t wash with Carey
Theil. She’s executive director of GREY2K USA, a group opposed to
greyhound racing. “There were multiple inspections of this particular
kennel that indicated major problems,” Theil says. “The photographic
evidence clearly shows severe flea infestations (and) feces on the
wall. That the situation was allowed to continue for at least two weeks
is deeply troubling.”
Nor does she buy Taylor’s argument for keeping the public—and
me—from viewing his kennels. “I think that Mr. Taylor does not
want to you to see conditions in the kennel compound,” Theil says. “He
certainly gives access to track-sponsored adoption programs when he
wants to.”
Nor does it make her rest any better knowing that Kennel No. 1 was
empty when the state intervened.
“Look, regardless of the employment issue (with Jordan), there is no
excuse for these types of conditions,” she says. “It is Mr. Taylor’s
obligation to ensure that the kennels at Tucson Greyhound Park are not
filthy and infested with fleas. This is just basic sanitation, and the
buck stops with him.”
This article appears in Apr 23-29, 2009.
This seems typical of Tucson Greyhound park’s “passing the buck” style of management-or mis-management. Every horror-show that happens there is someone else’s fault. Employees are not allowed to have cameras in the kennels, so they will not take photos of the dogs living conditions. Missing dogs the fault of a kill truck operator, horrifyingly filthy living conditions is the fault of a trainer. The buck does stop with Greyhound Racing being a antiquated, cruel, and dying sport. Do away with it and Tucson will be better off.
I used to think- these dogs are athletes, why wouldn’t they treat them well? Wouldn’t it make them run better if they were cared for? It remains that they are a disposable commodity and if one can’t run there are 5 more to replace the dog. If she breaks her leg on a poorly graded track, throw her away and get another to replace her.
I wouldn’t consider myself a whako animal rights freak, as the track would paint anyone who opposes the practice of racing these dogs…I just think it’s wrong to bite the paw that feeds you. These people make their living off the dogs, and the dogs suffer unspeakable torture for it.
Nothing in this news story is surprising. Years and years of reports like this just show that the only way to clean up this mess is to close TPG until it meets ADOR specifications. Additionally, ADOR needs to become even more aggressive with enforcement.
It tells you something about Taylor when he says he is willing to “eat off the floor”. Why not have a luncheon with reporters invited to watch!
Hugs, kisses and a huge thank you to Tim Vanderpoolfrom the Tucson and South Tucson community, and all who live in Pima County, for exposing yet another abomination on how the Tucson Greyhound Park ‘cares’ for its racing greyhounds. The steps taken by The Arizona Department of Racing to more closely monitor this operation is long overdue. If ADR is strapped for funding to pay investigators, perhaps it could recruit and train a team of volunteers with investigative experience to do some of the leg work. I,for one, would volunteer.
Arizona is one of few states where greyhound racing remains legal.In my opinion, I would like to see Governor Jan Brewer and her entourage make an unexpected visit to TGP. I wonder how long it would take before she ran from the kennel covered with ticks, fleas, fecus, and a visual experience that would sear her brain and cause her sleepless nights for many years. Assuming, of course, that she has compassion for our four legged, furry friends. It’s about time our elected officials stepped up to the plate and made greyhound racing illegal in Arizona.
For those readers who believe that greyhounds must be pretty dumb because they run around in circles, I point such readers to race car drivers. Don’t they charge around in their cars in a circle? Yes,they do, and for the same reason that people breed and race greyhounds – to make money. But greyhounds are not race cars. They are living creatures that are gentle and sensitive by nature and make wonderful pets once they are rescued from the track and and move into homes where dog lovers will provide a safe and loving environment.
In my opinion, Tom Taylor should find another way to make a living. Perhaps as a politician? He always has an excuse when something is amiss with the conditions under which greyhounds struggle to survive at TGP. SHAME ON YOUR TOM TAYLOR.
Anna
This is not an aberration. Tucson Greyhound Park is an abomination and an embarrassment to the community. Hundreds of dogs confined in small cages live in their own excrement so their owners can make a few more bucks from them.
Thank you for continuing to expose the filthy, substandard and horrific conditions at this sad excuse of a business. Shame on everyone at TGP.
Tucson Greyhound Park is financially “circling the drain,” with increasingly desperate attempts to stay open- including trying to switch to seasonal racing, meaning the “dumping” of hundreds of dogs when the end of the season is over at Tucson’s bottom-grade track: the dogs will have nowhere else to go.
Phoenix has a much better track, with strict controls over what their kennel operators can and cannot do with their dogs. Moreover, no racing hounds are housed at the track, unlike Tucson. I’ve been behind the scenes at both, and it’s a world better in Tucson.
Meanwhile, TGP continues to elude paying taxes on revenue generated- money that in turn goes to out-of-state owners. They continue to bring in unqualified- even criminal- kennel operators, who are slowly ground down financially until they can no longer operate.
Then there’s the manager himself- the man who decided Pa’s Missmakamess (“Missy”) should die for her hock fracture, rather than be given to a qualified kennel operator who offered to PAY for Missy rather than have her destroyed, to rehabilitate the dog rather than kill her.
Fleas, drugs, kennel operators (Kevin Mathieu- license suspended in other states, not caught by Arizona until AFTER Missy died), “heat-related” accidents where 8 of 35 greyhounds on a haul to Mexico (three dogs stuffed in a “hole” when the law says no more than two), hundreds of missing dogs from TGP employing a Colorado hauler who presumably had them killed- all this and more, that stinks more than blowout D on a cinderblock wall in Tucson.
Shut it down.
Bloody outrageous! It continues. The papers have done a pretty good job of covering this, but South Tucson The Slum will not fix it, Pima County will not fix it, Arizona will not fix it. Can you say, “FIX?”
Greyhound racing is about gambling and the dogs are the means to the end – money.
Close down greyhound racing. It’s a barbaric sport where innocent animals are abused, maimed and sometimes die. People can still go gamble at a casino where no innocent creatures get hurt.
Tim, thanks so much for this informative article.
This is business as usual at TGP. In documents that I have, there were 200 dogs euthanized at TGP from January 2003 through December 2007. That’s 60 months. That’s hypothetically 40 dogs a year or almost one a week.
Let’s not forget about the 140+ missing dogs also during that time period; the dogs who were stuffed into a vehicle and died on their way to Juarez, another racing hell hole that has since gone out of business; the two dogs who died one summer when their handler failed to cool them down after a race; the dog who was euthanized for a broken hock even though a kennel operator tried to save her and an adoption group was on her way to pick the dog up; the dogs who were given to a coyote hunter in central Calif. What do these precious dogs know from barb wire fences?
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
So what happens to TGP? Do they pay a fine? Is there any accountability? Or is it just business as usual like it’s always been?
Another sad fact is that you the taxpayer, the student, the teacher… all subsidize this cesspool. Tucson Greyhound Park gets over a million dollars a year in hardship tax credits.
Read the Arizona Auditor General’s report. While our lawmakers are scratching their heads trying to dig up some funds, nobody seems to care that greyhound racing gets a free pass. The ADR is 85% financed by another state agency even though greyhound track owners make millions of dollars.
http://www.azracing.gov/Archives/FY08_Annu…
And we call this “entertainment”?? What is wrong with our society? I don’t think any of us would even consider putting our beloved pets in these conditions, but we consider this acceptable for the docile, lovable, sweet greyhounds?
Lori Riegel
Yep, business as usual at TGP. Dead and missing dogs, filthy conditions, rules violations, Tom Taylor can excuse it all, and the state regulators either don’t care or are powerless to stop it.
Tom Taylor says you could eat off the floor of most of the Tucson Greyhound Park kennels. I say make him eat all his meals there as long as the “park”–now that’s an interesting term for a cesspool–stays afloat. Oh, its under water? CLOSE IT! Why should any greyhound be subjected to this sort of thing? Its abominable. And by the way, I’ve been back in the kennels several years ago. They smelled like a cesspool then too! Time for a change!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is too much. Close down the track.
This sort of report leaves me speechless with rage. How can people like this live with being such monsters?
Seems like Tgp is up to its old tricks again,prop 401 was supposed to clean things up and finally protect the greyhounds and give them a voice in how they are SUPPOSED TO BE TREATED!!!But NO once again DEADBEAT kennel owners and trainers being the lowlifes and SCUMBAGS that they are,rose to the occasion and grabbed the HEADLINES ONCE AGAIN.How long DO WE HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THIS GARBAGE.It’s about time the ADOR and their Corrupt BUDDIES THE ARIZONA RACING COMMISSION PULL THEIR COLLECTIVE HEADS OUT OF THE SAND AND SHUT DOWN THIS CESSPOOL OF CORRUPTION!!!I’ve BEEN THERE DONE THAT I HAVE SEEN ALL THE DISGUSTING,FILTHY,DEGRADING,WAYS GREYHOUNDS ARE TREATED ON A DAILY BASIS.Greyhound racing is nothing more than EXPLOITATION AT IT’S ABSOLUTE UTMOST!!! Let the greyhounds out OF PRISON!!!ONCE AND FOR ALL,AND MAYBE THE GOOD LORD ABOVE WILL HAVE SOME SORT OF MERCY ON YOUR ROTTEN SOULS!!!
Why do you think there is a security fence and guard that keeps the public away from the Kennel Compound.TO protect the greyhounds maybe,err WRONG!!!how about to keep SECRET ALL THE DIRTY LITTLE LIES,DECEPTION,AND ALL THE PUTRID LIVING CONDITIONS THESE TRULY GRACEFUll AND BEAUTIFULL ANIMALS LIVE IN.Please if you TRULY CARE ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON AT TGP,please support the efforts of Carey Theil and Grey2KUSA.Thousands of greyhounds HAVE DIED IN VAIN because of GREED,IGNORANCE OF CORRUPT RACING OFFICIALS,AND RACING COMMISSIONS TAKING BIGTIME BRIBES FROM RACETRACK OWNERSHIP.Once again,if you are truly concerned about the RACING GREYHOUNDS HEALTH AND WELFARE,PLEASE!!!SUPPORT THE EFFORTS OF GREY2KUSA.
How incredibly sad. Sad for the dogs who actually survived in this filth, and sad that this track is still legally able to operate. It is horrifying to think of what these dogs live through and how some of them die. Isn’t is time for us, as a country, to decide that we will no longer tolerate the exploitation and abuse of animals for entertainment? Michael Vicks received jail time and his share of bad press (and rightly so) for the abuse of his dogs which were used for fighting. The numbers of dogs abused daily in the greyhound racing industry far exceeds anything Michael Vicks could do. Isn’t it time that this industry be made to pay for their crimes against these dogs? Isn’t it time that abuse and neglect of racing greyhounds WAS a crime???
I’d like to see Taylor “eat off the floor” in any kennel at TGP! Let’s hope ADR inspectors continue their routine inspections and they will soon see that TGP is incapable of maintaining even the lowest standard of cleanliness. This track should have closed years ago. Bravo to Vanderpool for his candor in reporting.
Off track betting in Tucson supports this filth and the greyhound cruelty at TPG.
These businesses support the crimes at Tucson Greyhound Park – Midtown Bar & Grill, Putney’s, Old Father Inn, some Famous Sam’s, Jeff’s Pub and a few more that I cannot remember.
Off track betting helps keep this dying sport alive in Tucson.
Same ole same ole, as long as the NGA’s “BLOOD LOBBYISTS” keep padding the politician’s pockets this will never cease. Tucson has always been known to be a nasty place.
Everyone here that actually cares about these beautiful dogs, please visit the following link and feel free to post comments.
If one State passes gambling expansion the rest will be right behind, breathing life into the profiteers and more death into the dogs.
http://www.panhandleparade.com/index.php/m…
THANK YOU TIM VANDERPOOL FOR YOUR EXCELLENT INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING! This type of story is exactly why we have freedom of speech and a free press. Without people such as you this story would never get out. TGP has fences to keep people out. We, the people, have no other way to know what is going on there without you! TGP needs to end. PERIOD! Keep up the good work, and don’t let this story die–for the sake of the greyhounds living in these horrific conditions.
Ditto, Lizzie. Your comments are sadly accurate.
The track continues to point the finger, the understaffed state investigators continue to overlook it, and the dogs continue to be abused.
Thank you to the media who care to continue keeping tabs on this issue. If the state law can’t be enforced, I’m glad the media is willing to use their influence to help educate voters. “Tom Taylor” went by many other names through ten years of my exposure to the track. The answer isn’t to replace “Tom Taylor” because another one like him will eventually come along. Attitude trickles down from the top. Go there for change… and if the Florida owners of the track don’t quit pointing the finger and don’t make real change, let’s hope the State finally does their job and takes away their license for continuing to snub their nose at the law.
Thank you for exposing this story. It needs to be told for many to hear and cannot be told enough.
Tuscon should be ashamed of it’s city, and it’s people, for casting blind eyes on such a cruel abomination of filth and disease.
Now you know why all racing tracks should be closed and these poor animals put with loving families. This is a disgrace and the owner’s should be put in jail and forced to clean up their act. All this for the almighty dollar.
Thank you for exposing this horror.
This is a disgrace and a horror for these poor animals. This track and all others too should be closed and the animals given up for adoption. All this for the almighty dollar.
Thank you for exposing this deplorable situation.
Same song, different verse. Thanks to Mr. Vanderpool for such a wonderful article and yet these horror stories have been around the greyhound racing community for DECADES. I personally have two wonderful greyhounds adopted from the Tuscon track and even though they both had short racing careers, you can tell from their teeth, scars, and missing fur that their treatment there was less than deplorable. Nobody denies that greyhounds love to run…the issue is the industry sees them nothing more than a commodity…an object they can use and abuse until they don’t race anymore at which time they either shoot them or let adoption groups rescue them. In spite of the never-ending horror stories though, the breed is a real testament to just how great they are seeing just how wonderfully they adapt into a loving home. Too bad the love doesn’t start from when they are born in the kennel. So many tracks have closed already…just end this industry already and make the Tuscon track the next one to go on the chopping block!
Wow. A measly $250 fine for cheating but nothing for cruelty to animals? What a completely shameful situation.
We got one of our greys from that track. She came home with fleas and hookworms. She is an absolute doll and it breaks my heart to think that she could have been exposed to that.
Close the track.
Thank you, thank you Mr. Vanderpool for doing such an excellent job of reporting yet another deplorable situation at this end of the line track for these poor dogs. In my opinion, there is not one dog track in the U.S. that is free of mistreatment to greyhounds. Tom Taylor: isn’t he the President of the GPA Chapter in Tucson? And….he is also the General Manager of the Tucson Greyhound Park?? Does this mean that Greyhound Pets of America is actually part of the racing industry? That is a sad testament. As said in many other comments, these dogs for decades have been nothing more than money makers for their owners and a disposable commodity. For at least 80 years of dog racing in America, with tens of thousands over the years (actually over a million) greyhounds have been killed for a sport. When are we as a society going to wake up and put an end to this bloodsport for once and for all?
Advocate for Greyhounds
HEY HEY! HO HO! TGP HAS GOT TO GO!
TGP is not good for Tucson or for the taxpayers of Arizona and certainly not the dogs.
Tear it down and build a nice family park.
Hoping that many people read this and that the local community will take action to close this track.
Thank you Mr. Vanderpool!
Please come to Florida and help us here too! Now the Governor and legislators are trying to expand gambling to make up for shortfalls in the budget, and our greyhounds in Florida are in great danger as well!
Thank you Tim Vanderpool for this article!! Keep telling these horror stories and finally the American public will get the true picture. These dogs are NOT keep in clean qusrters, they are NOT given good food, they do NOT have affectionate human companions. They ARE kept in dirth cages 20+ hours a day, they ARE given grade D hamburger, they ARE the best breed in the world! Please continue your good work with more and more articles like this one!!!
“Until man extends the circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” …Albert Schweitzer
Thank you Tim Vanderpool for this article!! Keep telling these horror stories and finally the American public will get the true picture. These dogs are NOT keep in clean qusrters, they are NOT given good food, they do NOT have affectionate human companions. They ARE kept in dirth cages 20+ hours a day, they ARE given grade D hamburger, they ARE the best breed in the world! Please continue your good work with more and more articles like this one!!!
“Until man extends the circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.” …Albert Schweitzer
If everyone is outraged by this article by Mr.Vanderpool,why don’t you try to do something ABOUT IT!!Nothing works better in a situation like this than Bad Publicity.Make your feelings felt with PROTEST SIGNS,picket in front of the compound where the filthy,disgusting living conditions for these beautifull animals exist.Let the management and ownership see firsthand the displeasure of the public,and that violations of this EXTREME will not be TOLERATED any longer.
Why aren’t these INHUMANE conditions enough to shut that place down???!!! Would any of you want to keep your pet in that kennel? Or better yet, your child in a day care facility that was in that condition? Why do we continue to treat these poor helpless creatures as if they don’t matter to us? I was horrified at this report, and the best anyone can do is- CLEAN IT UP ??? Why not CLOSE IT DOWN??? That way, inspectors and reporters can focus on exposing OTHER tragedies in this community. If the caretakers in Tucson have no respect for these animals, what makes anyone think that their homes look any different????
the conditions at this track come as no surprise as this is the hell on earth that racing Greyhounds are forced to live with day after day. When will this hideoustrack close? May the day come soon when ALL greyhound tracks are no longer!
Tim Vanderpool–THANK YOU for writing this article and exposing what the truth is. It is through continuing stories about the horrors and abuses that these beautiful dogs face every day that will get the word out about how horrible greyhound racing truly is. Pleae keep up the great work.
It’s beyond disturbing to me that the pro-racing faction can defend this stupid “sport” and all its never-ending horrors. Tom Taylor and those like him along with the track subsidized GPAs in this country who keep their mouths shut regarding the abuses need to stop patting themselves on the back and acknowledge that THEY are a big part of the problem. Thank you for yet another informative article on the hell hole that is TGP.
Thank you Tim Vanderpool for exposing what is going on at greyhound parks. Keep up the good work – we need to show everyone how terrible the situation is for the dogs.
Situations like this and even worse will continue to happen until we totally eradicate the greyhound industry from Arizona.
Greyhound racing is an abomination that cannot be fought with “modest” measures that do NOT accomplish anything (like the last measure passed in South Tucson). Nothing has changed at TGP and the dogs keep suffering. I hope this article will help people realize that – as a community – we must work on concrete and effective strategies to get rid of greyhound racing forever.
A great Big Thank You to all who exposed the Tucson Greyhound Park BUT Why are they still allowed to stage greyhound racing there ?? Why have they not been shut down?
Can you imagine the misery of these poor dogs who have to live in filth so that they can be let our now and again to make money for their owners “YOU BET _ THEY DIE!!”
The owners cannot have gone into the kennel very often to look at the dogs or they would have had to expose them selves to all the fleas and worse!
I would make them live in the kennel for a month or longer under the same conditions!
Please people of the United States of America Campaign for the closure of all dog tracks and the welfare of all racing dogs once they cease to race
Keep up the good work Tucson Weekly
Jean for Greyhounds
York England UK
And because all this inspection stuff is just a cover-up,
or another – “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours,”
is obvious absolutely nothing will come of the elector
turn out. Where are all the vets who supported this?
Where’s the STATE inspector(s), not that they’re “clean”
either…all in all it’s just a vicious circle with the gentle
greyhounds paying the ultimate price – as usual……
Have things improved since this investigation? Just curious. This is not the first time I have heard about disgusting kennels. Some kennels in the Uk are disgusting dark and dank. poor greyhounds. Better conditions should be instigated by law. The way these wonderful loving royal sighthounds is both archaic and cruel. How would any of them like to spend just one day in conditions like that. as the lucky owner of three ex-racing greyhounds I am disgusted by such wanton cruelty to these most nobel loving hounds. Sincerly Lisbeth Mønsted Larsen Greyhound Action Denmark.
If that was kennel no. 1, I would hate to see all the others. It is obvious that these people involved in hiding the truth are going to get away with it until someone steps in and stops this behavior. When things like this happen to one of God’s creatures, I have to remind myself that the person doing this or soumething similar; they are without feelings and are only interested in the here and now. They will one day have to answer to God, the creator of these greyhouds and they were not put on earth for this kind have of neglect and abuse.
I wonder how they treat other human beings? I am not a gambler, but I am willing to bet that they are selfish and greedy people in all their dealings with anyone in their lives, even family members.
This makes me really sad.
One of the things that makes us human is compassion, and to think that all these animals are being treated like vermin is just disgusting.
When the investigators saw the conditions that the animals were living in, the the owner should NOT have gotten a few days to ‘clean things up.’ They should have shut it down right then and there and saved those poor dogs from even one more day of that treatment.
I trained greyhounds in the 90″s. But were I kenneled my dogs was at a compond owned by Jonny Ripitoe. Most of us that kenneled our dogs took very good care of them. Because I knew they were my paycheck.