b'Let Us Pamper Your Pets. Going Grey. lettersEditors Note: The article, Going Grey by Cate Bronson inYou will always findthe winter issue of The New Barker generated some phonethe salon clean andcalls and emails:Pamperingneat. Our stylists treat each pet with lovingThank you for taking the time to call me back. As discussedpets forkindness.We use all- there are always two sides to any story. I would like to seemore thannatural products, and 25 years. our equipment is state- where journalist Cate Bronson gained her information.of-the art. In our quiet,What proof does she have to be able to support (the claimsrelaxed atmosphere,made) in her article, Going Grey? Do you have any support-everything is focuseding evidence to show that the article she wrote and youon the comfort and safety of your pet. published is true?Whisper Thank you,PET STYLES Sharon Dippel, by Jennifer Dade City, FLA Salon for Dogs. Cate Bronsons response:Apart from online articles and books, my statements are426 Patricia Ave.,Dunedin 727.736.2468www.PetStylesbyJennifer.combased on personal experience from inside the track andwhat I witnessed firsthand (I held a valid State of Floridatrack license until 2014, allowing me access as a volunteer).ONE-ON-ONE INSTRUCTION IN: My experience at a local track permitted me thes\x00\x00"ASIC\x00/BEDIENCE\x0e opportunity to see fourteen abused racing greyhounds afters\x00\x00#OMPANION\x00!NIMAL\x004RAINING\x0e theyd been seized from an abusive owner. His dogs weres\x00\x00!MERICAN\x00+ENNEL\x00#LUB\x00 found emaciated and covered in tics. I saw these dogs in this\x08!+#\x00#OURSES\x0e state with my own eyes. I have also seen racing dogs at thes\x00\x000ROTECTION\x004RAINING\x0e.O\x00MATTER\x00THE\x00SIZE\x00OR\x00BREED\x0c\x00 track crammed into cramped cages at the kennels for mostTHERE\x00IS\x00NO\x00ISSUE\x00THAT\x00WE\x00 of the day, allowed less than an hour of turnout, three timesCAN\x07T\x00lX\x00THROUGH\x00TRAINING\x00AND\x00 per day. And yes, they whimpered (and they howled) foreducation. attention, almost none stop. I saw many dogs (the majority)!NDY\x0c\x00(EAD\x004RAINER\x0c\x00 retired due to a variety of injuries from racing. One girlWITH\x002ILEY\x00AND\x003MOKEY\x0e (named Martha) hobbled on a broken leg for more thanfour weeks through the holiday season, waiting for theMore W Wag, Less Bark. opportunity to have corrective surgery.813.509.1630 |CBSTampa.net I used the following books as reference forscheduling.cbstampa@gmail.com my statements:1. Anne Finch, Pet Owners Guide to the Greyhound, 1997, Interpet Publishing, p. 15.2. Cynthia A. Branigan, Third Edition,Adopting the Racing Greyhound, 1992, 1998, 2003,Wiley Publishing, Inc., p.46-55.3. Lee Livingood, Retired Racing Greyhounds forDummies, 2002, Wiley Publishing, Inc., p.16. (This islikely outdated now, but the author estimated births at33k and adoptions leveled off at 18k, leaving euthanizeddogs around 15,000 annually. The author did notspecify if this number is worldwide or for a specificcountry. But any number over ten thousand is in thetens of thousands).The most important point of all is not to quibble overnumbers and lose sight of the purpose behind my article(and what activists and pro-industry supporters both claimto advocate), and that is to save greyhound lives by gettingmore dogs adopted and fewer of them euthanized.Thank you,Cate Bronson,St. Petersburg, FL12THE NEW BARKER www.TheNewBarker.com'