Greyhound Welfare

RWWA Is Committed To Ensuring That The Best Levels Of Care Are Given To Greyhounds Throughout All Stages Of Their Lives, Through A Program Of Investment, Education, Monitoring And Regulation. When A Greyhound Retires From The Racing Industry, At Any Age, RWWA Will Aim To Ensure Every Healthy And Behaviourally Sound Greyhound Is Re-Homed.

The RWWA Holistic Greyhound Welfare Strategy looks at all stages of a greyhound’s life and documents the disciplines and controls required around these stages. The central disciplines that make up the strategy include:

• Controlling supply via greyhound breeding controls;
• Increasing demand for greyhounds as pets;
• Increased resourcing of the industry Greyhounds as Pets (GAP) program;
• Educating the Industry;
• Monitoring performance against key metrics;
• Tracking of all greyhounds at every stage of their life cycle;
• Regulation and policing of the industry; and
• Overarching governance to ensure that the animal welfare strategy is applied across all stages of animals lives.