Owner fires back at MP for labelling her greyhound as dead

By Katherine Ernst

A TASMANIAN greyhound owner is still fuming after her retired greyhound was declared dead by a Greens MP trying to shut down the industry.

During the week Andrea Dawkins, the MP for the electorate of Bass, tabled a document in State Parliament listing 16 greyhounds alleged to have died on the track within the first six months of 2016.

One of the greyhounds named in the document was Wee Fire, who earned $34,650 on the racetrack and was reported by Dawkins to have died from unknown causes at less than four years of age.

Dawkins has since been forced to issue a public Read full article

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