Welfare of greyhounds used for racing: report

Footnotes

1. DT/RSPCA Joint Report (Appendix III)

2. GBGB response via email

3. DT/RSPCA Joint Report (Appendix III)

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28. GBGB response via email

29. 2014 independent study by Indecon International Consultants commissioned by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine of the Government of Ireland

30. DT/RSPCA Joint Report (Appendix III)

31. Molyneux, J. 2005. Vets on track: working as a greyhound vet. In Practice, 27, 277-279.

32. Mellor, DJ, Beausoleil, NJ, Littlewood, KE, McLean, AN, McGreevy, PD, Jones, B, Wilkins, C (2020) The 2020 Five Domains Model: including human-animal interactions in assessments of animal welfare. Animals, 10, 1870.

33. Dockerty, R.J. (2016) A multifactoral approach to improving welfare in the racing greyhound. PhD Thesis, University of Liverpool.

34. Heritability = Proportion of an observed trait that is due to genetic effects rather than environmental

35. DT/RSPCA Joint Report (Appendix III)