Greyhound racing involves serious welfare concerns including high injury rates, inadequate retirement planning, and the fate of thousands of dogs who fail to make racing grade.
Racing greyhounds face welfare harms throughout their lives: intensive training from young age, racing on hard tracks that cause muscle and skeletal injury, kennel housing that restricts natural movement, and uncertain retirement outcomes. The most serious welfare concern is the fate of the surplus dogs produced by an industry that breeds far more animals than can be placed in homes. Track closures have accelerated adoption need but not provision.