GREYT SHAME ON THE 'BBC'

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PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY TO ALL YOUR GROUPS AND CONTACTS NATIONAL AND
INTERNATIONAL INCLUDING ALL ANTI -GREYHOUND RACING CAMPAIGNERS WORLDWIDE AND
ALL WEBSITES,TWITTER, MYSPACE AND FACEBOOK FOR MAXIMUM PUBLICITY

GREYT SHAME ON THE 'BBC'

BBC promoting Greyhound racing as "A great fun night out" (UK)-please take
action now-worldwide response needed. Please read the important appeals
below from the brilliant 'Greyt Exploitations' who campaign for the
abolition of betting on greyhounds.

We are therefore asking all our national and international supporters to
take action now. Please make all your correspondence polite.
EVERY LETTER COUNTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD IN ORDER TO INUNDATE AND EDUCATE
THOSE THAT INSIST ON PROMOTING GREYHOUND RACING

Please also see the important and very interesting update about this case at
the end of the appeal below.
When you write please ask them to cancel all races for this poor dog called
'Show Me the Bunny' and stop the promotion of an industry that are known
literally as dog killers. Please include these website links below into your
email showing the terrible plight of the racing greyhound-
www.greytexploitations.com
www.GREY2KUSA.org
http://www.actionforgreyhounds.co.uk/

Many thanks for your support for the greyhounds
Greyhound Crusaders/SWAP team UK

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From: Greyt Exploitations
To: info@greytexploitations.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 11:03 PM
Subject: BBC promoting Greyhound racing as “A great fun night out”

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Please take action - BBC promoting greyhound racing as “A great fun night
out”

BBC Radio 5 Live’s sports presenter and fan of greyhound racing Colin Murray
has taken ownership of a white and brindle 2 year old female greyhound.
Named by the show’s listeners - Showme Thebunny will run the risk of injury
regularly at Sheffield’s Owlerton dog track on Friday evenings - with Colin
Murray’s ‘Kicking Off’ show providing live coverage.

An article in the Greyhound Star reports – “With the GBGB working on ways to
encourage syndicate participation across the country the initiative is
timely and provides an exciting opportunity to showcase all the excitement
the sport so readily offers up” and encourages readers to “Tune into the
show on Friday nights when the regular national exposure for the sport will
be a welcome outlet for greyhound racing news and views”

Please complain to the BBC regarding their national promotion of an
inherently cruel gambling industry. Colin Murray has also described 'Showme
Thebunny' as “Our greyhound – your greyhound if you’re listening – you’ve
adopted her” – so please also call for her immediate withdrawal from the
track.

Please remember to be polite at all times and enclose the links to these
newspaper articles specifically on Sheffield dog track.
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/top_greyh ... _1_1835738
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/owlerton_ ... m_1_251271

Email Details

BBC Standard Complaint Form - https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/

Tweet http://twitter.com/#!/ShowMe_TheBunny

Please also write to Kriss Akabusi–who contributed to the programme and who
we are sure will be unaware of the cruelty involved in greyhound racing
admin@akabusi.com

Click here to listen to Colin Murray and his studio guests laugh and joke
about Showme Thebunny’s knock at the first bend – a bend that takes so many
lives and is often the last for these gentle souls.
http://s428.photobucket.com/albums/qq1/ ... o5live.mp4

Many thanks ~ as always ~ for your care and compassion for the dogs

Important update
September 13th
Since our appeal - BBC promoting Greyhound racing as “A great fun night
out” - it has transpired the avatar used to promote BBC radio presenter
Colin Murray’s racing greyhound ‘Showme_Thebunny’ on Twitter and
consequently dog racing to a national audience – was copied and reproduced
from Max and Molly Designs without permission.

Jane's artwork used to promote greyhound racing to a national audience by
the BBC

Jane Jones – the proprietor of Max and Molly Designs is an advocate for
greyhounds and generously donates a percentage of the profits from her
business to grassroots rescue – rehabilitation and re-homing groups in
Scotland.
A series of complaints requesting the avatar be removed were ignored until
the BBC’s legal department were contacted. Although Jane’s artwork has now
been removed – there has been no apology or statement from the BBC.
Please write to Colin Murray and ask that he makes a public apology on his
radio show ‘Fighting Talk’ and that he makes a donation to one of Jane’s
chosen charities for the use of – albeit for 4 weeks – Jane’s artwork that
helps to raise much needed funds for the thousands of dogs that are dumped
and abandoned by the racing industry - an industry Colin Murray is
promoting.
Email details
fightingtalk@bbc.co.uk
5live@bbc.co.uk
A timeline of Jane's complaint can be seen HERE
http://www.maxandmollydesigns.com/2011/ ... the-bunny/

Website: www.greytexploitations.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/greyt.exploitations
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/Greytexploitations

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ShowMe TheBunny’s Kennels
15.10.11
Many thanks to everyone who wrote to the BBC in support of the dogs and complained regarding their promotion of greyhound racing and the gambling on dogs to a national audience.

The standard reply from the BBC was - in our opinion - at best non factual and at worst condescending.
The BBC stated ShowMe TheBunny ‘is not owned by the programme or the BBC, it is owned by the British Greyhound Board’.

We are not familiar with an organisation called the British Greyhound Board and question whether it even exists.

However in compliance with the GBGB Rules of Racing – the name of the owner or lessee of a greyhound must be published in the race card and the race card published on September 23rd - the owner/lessee of ShowMe TheBunny is clearly listed as ‘Kicking Off With Colin Murray’.



Further proof of ownership – if ever it was needed - can be found on Sheffield dog track’s Blog http://owlertonstadium.tumblr.com/ - which states “Colin Murray, a sports presenter on BBC Radio Five Live, has taken ownership of one of our greyhounds”



So we sent investigators along to ShowMe TheBunny’s kennels in South Yorkshire to see the canine star’s home and to evidence the grim reality of a self regulated industry failing to enforce the most basic environmental legislation.



Please click here http://greytexploitations.com/resources ... ys-kennels for the full report on ShowMe TheBunny’s Kennel and details of how you can help





Many thanks ~ as always ~ for your care and compassion for the dogs.




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