Greyhound overbreeding myth exposed

By Bruce Teague

Now that Greyhounds Australasia has published the final stats for Australian greyhound racing in 2015 we are in a position to confirm a point made by a couple of readers recently.

Over the 12 years from 2003 the number of litters whelped in Australia fell by 6.3% to 3,006 (all these figures exclude New Zealand where conditions are often different). The numbers are quite erratic from year to year, for unknown reasons, so the drop would have looked even greater had you started in the busier years of 2004, 2005 or 2006.

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