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Tucson, Arizona | Published: 10.27.2006
PHOENIX - Up to 200 greyhounds that were transferred by a Colorado man from Tucson Greyhound Park almost a year ago cannot be accounted for, authorities said.
Greyhound activists fear the dogs could be dead although the Colorado man claims the animals are fine.
The Arizona Department of Racing, which regulates greyhound tracks, is trying to solve the mystery.
Tucson Greyhound Park is the end of the line for racing greyhounds, advocates for the dogs say. Once a dog cannot win there, its career as a racer is over.
The Tucson track also has a spotty record in supporting adoptions, said Mary Freeman, president of Arizona Greyhound Rescue in Tucson.
She said four adoption groups in Southern Arizona place several hundred dogs a year, but with an estimated 50 a month no longer able to race, "there is no way to absorb that many dogs here."
Because of the expense of maintaining what owners, trainers and kennel operators consider unproductive dogs, many of them are donated to track operators to dispose of.
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