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I got interested to see what West Highland Terriers there are for sale, I always thought that if parents are registered the pups must be registered also or is that only if one has a prefix? I was also under the impression that if the dog and bitch are purchased on the Limited register they are not to be bred. The ad proves me wrong.

yes, that is what I was thinking cavNrott, perhaps it is too risky (though I am not a nutter :D) I dampened a bowl full for the chooks but they won't eat it.

My friend bought a 20kg bag of Coprice dry dog kibble (photo of product below), her dog decided he didn't like it anymore so there is 2/3 of a bag left. Can any rescue near Brisbane use it? I can give it to my son who lives in East Brisbane so it can be picked up from there after 5pm weekdays or I can drop it off if between Redland Bay and Capalaba. Let me know if it will be of use.

O dear , I didn't realise that. It's Ok. Notice: Topic starter was looking for Dam not for bitches. No need to play rough. :) More studies needed that is for sure. Actually she was looking for bitches that were about to become Dams. and I was being tongue-in-cheek

O dear , I didn't realise that.

Daisy's three lower front teeth have always been sticky-outie but in the last month or so she has a growth appearing between, and slightly behind the teeth, it has made them more protuberant and pushing her bottom lip out (looked like a tiny camel's bottom lip) I took her to the vet and was told it is either an irritation causing the growth (her three teeth were beginning to become slightly loose) or she has squamous cell carcinoma. He said wait a few weeks as the teeth may just drop out and the tumour-like lump will go down but if they didn't they could remove the lump and teeth and send the lump off for histology. I waited but the teeth were nearly at 45° to her jaw as the growth was becoming larger so I decided to get the growth removed, unfortunately they couldn't save her three teeth which was unfortunate as they (and all the others) are good and shiny-white. Anyway, the vet phoned me today and all is good...Daisy's histo result is Hypoplastic Plasmacytic gingivitis. What a relief. I'd be interested to know if anyone here had this in their dog? I also wish that I had taken some photos of what it looked like pre-surgery

hahaha, love this "get that camera out of my face" photo RRPS

This may be of interest (Mac loves his as he feels safe from zombies sneaking up on him while he is asleep) Cudo say they have Hound Houses on special, I don't know if they are a good price or not If you Google 'Cudo Hound House' it'll take you to the page or here is the link http://products.cudo.com.au/hound-house-0

I am so sorry Huski

Mac had already buried his big bone in the garden but that wasn't to his liking so decided the shower was just the place. I wondered what the noise in the bathroom was! I really didn't need this at 5.45 this afternoon

If you Google this sentence--> 'if a waiver is signed does the Australian consumer law still apply' you will find some of the links are informative, it seems that you may still have further legal rights against the supplier.

http://www.techrepub...ftag=TRE684d531 3D Systems gets 10,000 injured dogs running again with 3D printed knee implants By Lyndsey Gilpin March 11, 2015, 3:54 AM PST // lyndseygilpin 3D Systems partnered with Rita Leibinger Medical to 3D print metal knee implants for thousands of dogs, which has sped up surgery and recovery for pets around the world. 3D Systems built prosthetic legs for Derby the dog last year. Image: 3D Systems You've probably seen the adorable story of , who was born disabled but received some incredible 3D printed prosthetic legs that allowed him to run again. The story went viral in late 2014 and, in many ways, changed how the world looked at the potential for 3D printing.After all, when our beloved pups are involved, we begin to take things pretty seriously. Little did the world know that 3D Systems, who made those prosthetics, had another advancement for dogs in the works. The 3D printing company partnered with Rita Leibinger Medical to create and print metal orthopedic knee implants to fix a very common, but difficult problem of injuries in dogs' hind leg ligaments, often caused by trauma, degeneration, or genetics. "With this implant we experienced faster, more successful surgery and a faster recovery period," Rita Leibinger, owner and founder of Rita Leibinger Medical, said in a press release. To date, 3D Systems has made more than 10,000 of the implants, allowing the dogs to walk about six weeks after surgery, and it has made the process much more efficient for veterinarians as well. The partnership between 3D Systems and Rita Leibinger Medical, which is headquartered in Germany, started in 2012. Peter Mercelis, technology and application developer manager at 3D Systems, said that Rita Leibinger Medical immediately realized the possibilities of 3D printing and started to work on improvement of the classic TTA (Tibial Tuberosity Advancement) implants and procedure to create TTA Rapid Implants 2. By reorganizing the bone force and making the knee more stable, the implant can fix the problem without the vet needing to repair the ligament. The classic TTA surgical procedure involved the use of a large fixation plate, which is now obsolete because of the new developments in this technology. The titanium implant has an open structure that promotes rapid bone ingrowth, as well as less of a risk of infection. TTA Rapid Implants 2 Image: 3D Systems The new implants were developed by a small team of engineers from both companies. They went through about four design iterations "to improve the ease of the surgical procedure, the long term bone-ingrowth, and the appearance and the manufacturing costs," Mercelis said. Because 3D printing has such short lead times, those iterations could be done on a short-term basis, and sometimes in parallel. Dr. Yves Samoy, from Ghent University in Belgium, perfected the surgical procedure, and worked with 3D Systems' manufacturing facility in Belgium to scale up the prototyping. Of course, dogs aren't the best at being patient and resting when they need to. So, every time one can get back to full speed after surgery, it's considered a success story. "The dog owners and even the vets are really surprised to see the dogs recover this fast from an orthopedic surgical procedure," Mercelis said. Although much smaller than human healthcare, the animal healthcare market is a multi-billion dollar industry -- and implant costs make up a huge portion of that. With 3D printing, the total cost of the procedure is reduced, and even better, it is also less invasive. The TTA Rapid Implants 2 will also be more widely available, and the two companies are working on scaling them down for smaller dogs and cats, too. They are also working on other implants, which will become commercially available soon. "The complex geometries, large size and weight differences of the patients are all in favor of 3D printing technology," Mercelis said. "3D Systems and Rita Leibinger Medical are currently already working on the next success stories, by developing several spinal implants." Because we can all always use more dog videos in our lives, check out 3D Systems' showcasing the 10,000 happy dogs that have benefitted from this new implant.

Now that everything has settled down I find it funny also (apart from having to carry a randy-Mac outside to the veranda and having Penny behaving like a tart at 4.15 this morning) Mac is still peering hopefully through the lounge-room sliding glass door so Penny must smell pretty good :laugh: Where did you get the corn silk tablets from cavNrot?

The vet put Penny (16) on Stilboestrol for urine incontinence. First week 1 tablet daily then twice weekly afterwards, it has been working really well...no more wee while she is sleeping. I had noticed that Mac (15) was more interested in both Penny and Daisy the last couple of days but this morning the place is Retirement Home Bedlam. I have needed to keep Mac outside (he is currently frantically trying to slide the big glass door open) as he is jumping Penny who doesn't mind the overtures, in fact she is doing little flirty dances. I phoned the vet at 8.00, she said to give Penny just one tablet weekly, the vet also kept laughing and said something along the lines of Viagra in the old peoples home. So, just a heads up for any DOLer who has a bitch on Stilboestrol and also has a dog. My sympathies go out to breeders who have a dog as well as a bitch 'in season'

From the Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/mar/10/crufts-organisers-say-no-evidence-dogs-were-poisoned Crufts organisers say no evidence dogs were poisoned • Kennel Club insists allegations of mass poisoning are 'rumour and speculation' • Says not yet 'any definitive proof 'as to the cause of death for Irish setter Jagger Following the news about Jagger, other breeders have come forward to say their dogs fell ill at the show. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters Peter Walker The organisers of Crufts have said there is no evidence to suggest several dogs were poisoned at this year's show, following reports that as many as six animals fell ill after appearing at the event. The Kennel Club said allegations of mass poisoning were "rumour and speculation", and there was not yet any definitive proof as to the cause of death for Jagger, an Irish setter who died less than 48 hours after leaving Crufts. Jagger's owners, Aleksandra Lauwers, Dee Milligan-Bott and Jeremy Bott , say they believe the three-year-old dog was fed cubes of poisoned meat during the show at Birmingham's NEC. Crufts mystery: dog world asks whodunnit over death of Irish Setter Bott said a vet who examined Jagger in Belgium after the dog died found cubes of meat containing what appeared to be slug killer and other industrial poisons. They said the death appeared to be "a random act" rather than a fellow competitor targeting them. Following the news other breeders came forward to say their dogs had fallen ill at the show. Animals allegedly involved included a shetland sheepdog, a west highland white terrier, an Afghan hound and a shih tzu. However, the secretary of the Kennel Club, Caroline Kisko, said that while the claims were deeply distressing, "we must make it absolutely clear that there is currently no evidence that any dog has been poisoned at Crufts". She said: "The facts surrounding Jagger the Irish Setter's tragic death some 26 hours after leaving Crufts are still being established, and whilst there are suspicions about poisoning, the veterinary surgeon who carried out the postmortem has told the Kennel Club that she cannot comment on where, when and indeed if poisoning has taken place until the results of the toxicology report are available. The Kennel Club is talking to and supporting the owner at this difficult time. Advertisement"Whilst reports surrounding the welfare of dogs at Crufts are taken with the utmost of seriousness a number of the reports in the news about dogs becoming sick after leaving the show have been from anonymous sources, who have not reported the allegations to us or the police, and we cannot look into claims about which we have no direct information. We urge these people and anybody else who may have similar concerns to come forward and report them to the Kennel Club." Kisko added: "There have been reports about a few dogs who were unwell whilst at the show who were taken to one of the show vets and we can confirm that the vets at Crufts established no connection between sickness and poisoning. "Whilst there is a great deal of rumour and speculation and currently no evidence of any poisoning taking place at Crufts we are very clear that anyone caught attempting to deliberately sabotage another competitor's performance, particularly if a dog's welfare is put at risk, will face severe disciplinary action, which could include a ban on competing at all Kennel Club licensed events. Furthermore anyone who puts a dog's welfare at risk could face prosecution under the Animal Welfare Act." A spokeswoman for the club added that there were "any number of reasons why a dog may display symptoms such as sickness" at Crufts. West Midlands police said that while it was working with the NEC and Crufts to preserve any possible evidence, it had not as yet received any complaints or been asked to investigate any suspected poisonings.

http://www.theguardi...cancer-research Frankie the dog delivers the diagnosis through smelling patients' urine samples, according to a study conducted by the Arkansas University for Medical Sciences. German shepherd mix Frankie, a formerly stray dog rescued in Little Rock, Arkansas, was trained to diagnosis thyroid cancer through scent imprinting. Photograph: AM Hinson/BBC Jessica Glenza in New York A group of researchers in Arkansas have trained a dog to detect thyroid cancer by smelling patients' urine samples. The german shepherd-mix named Frankie predicted with 88% accuracy which patients had thyroid cancer and which had a benign disease. The formerly stray pup was rescued from a busy street in Little Rock, Arkansas. The study is researchers' first crack at using canines to diagnose thyroid cancer through scent imprinting – a way of training dogs to recognize a particular smell. It follows an earlier study that showed dogs could reliably distinguish between the urine samples of healthy people and those with cancer. "We've all looked at it from a skeptical, scientific standpoint, but the data just keeps leading us to the fact that this has remarkable clinical potential," said Arny Ferrando, one of the lead researchers, said in a press release from Arkansas University for Medical Sciences, where the study was conducted. Over six months, researchers at UAMS scent-imprinted Frankie with samples of blood, tissue and urine from patients with cancerous thyroid growths. Frankie was trained to turn away when benign thyroid disease was smelled, and lie down at the scent of metastatic thyroid carcinoma, a common thyroid cancer. Researchers gave Frankie samples of patients who came to the university clinic with symptoms of thyroid cancer. The results of Frankie's diagnosis, which was blinded to researchers, was compared with surgical pathologies, according to the study. Of 34 patients, Frankie accurately predicted the diagnosis 30 times. "Detecting and diagnosing thyroid cancer can be difficult, because it's often looking for a very small number of occurrences in a very large background of benign nodules. It is also difficult to say with certainty that a patient is cancer-free after surgery," said Donald Bodenner, director of the thyroid center at the university and chief of endocrine oncology, in a statement. He was also a lead researcher in the study. AdvertisementThyroid cancer is one of the fastest-growing cancer diagnoses worldwide, though the death rate has remained stable for years – leading some to believe that doctors are detecting growths that don't need treatment. Diagnosis rates have risen especially fast in countries such as South Korea where health officials have started mass screening. Compared with other cancers in the United States, thyroid cancer has a relatively low death rate. The American Cancer Society predicts that the cancer, which grows in the thyroid gland located in the neck, will result in 1,950 deaths in 2015, most of which (about two out of three) are diagnosed in people younger than 55. "Having a technique with which to do these things with a higher degree of certainty would be a tremendous advance in thyroid cancer," he said. Researchers said they were interested in the future in determining what olfactory elements are present in the samples that allows Frankie to determine which are cancerous. Dogs' sense of smell is often cited as being up to 100,000 times more acute than that of humans, according to PBS. The findings were presented at the Endocrine Society's annual conference Endo.

That's a beautiful dress! WM, you can buy material here--> http://www.spoonflow...om/fabric/22124 it is $17.50yd for cotton fabric Just make yourself a dress :D

There are these two DD (Rhodesian Ridgeback Rescue QLD) --> Sharka and Zulu https://www.facebook...gebackRescueQld

O MY! what a ripper pup. I Googled to find out what they look like---> a Rasta dog...just love them

There is a video in the link which I can't load so perhaps a DOLer can do so http://www.theguardi...nes-in-tanzania Apopo trainer Miraji Saidi with his rat. The animals can each search 200 square metres of land in just 20 minutes. Photograph: Sam Jones for the GuardianThe pre-dawn silence at the foot of the Uluguru mountains is disturbed only by the cries of drowsy birds, the whisper of boots through grass and an intermittent clicking sound that is irresistible to 60 pairs of tiny, almost translucent, ears. When the sun finally rises over the blue peaks to flood the fields below, it illuminates one of the more unlikely scenes of human-animal cooperation. Watched over by men and women clutching bananas and the small clickers used to train puppies, dozens of African giant pouched rats shuttle across taped-off alleyways trying to catch the lingering scent of TNT from some of the 1,500 deactivated landmines that have been sown in the red earth. Most scamper back and forth with an apparent mix of delight and concentration, as if they know that each time they find a mine and communicate their discovery with a fit of scratching, they will be rewarded with a click and a mouthful of fruit. One or two, perhaps still sleepy – or irked at being yanked from their warm wood shavings, dropped into cages and put in the back of the "ratbus" for another day's drills – look less enthusiastic, dawdling in their harnesses along the rope line held between two trainers. But by the end of their nine-month bootcamp, almost all the rats being schooled by the Belgian NGO Apopo in the southern highlands of Tanzania will have acquired the necessary skills to navigate minefields in Africa and beyond. Once operational, they will sniff out mines, which are then checked and cleared by their human colleagues. Facebook Twitter Pinterest The giant rats that save lives by detecting landmines - video Though their forebears have already helped to reclaim millions of square metres of land in Angola and Mozambique - the latter of which is expected to be declared mine-free soon – this cadre of rats could find themselves deployed to Cambodia, where Apopo is working to clear up the explosive legacy of three decades of conflict. The idea of using rats to sniff out mines came to Apopo's founder, Bart Weetjens, 20 years ago as he read an article about gerbils being taught to recognise the scent of explosives. Weetjens, who as a boy bred hamsters, rats, mice and gerbils, began to wonder which rodent would best serve those whose limbs and livelihoods are threatened by landmines. Rats detect mines in Tanzania – in pictures View gallery "I placed myself in the situation of subsistence farmers in Africa, those populations affected by the problem, and looked at the resources these people have at hand to develop a tool that would empower them to address this life-threatening problem more independently from expensive imported know-how and technologies," he says. AdvertisementScuttle forward the African giant pouched rat, Cricetomys gambianus. Not only are the animals intelligent and blessed with a sense of smell to rival that of dogs, they live for up to eight years and are – at an average weight of about a kilo – too light to set off pressure-activated anti-personnel mines. What's more, they are easy to find. The rats, which are native to most of sub-Saharan Africa, are so ubiquitous that they are either seen as a pest – because of the damage they do to crops – or as food. The only downside is that they are nocturnal and very susceptible to sunburn, meaning that their delicate ears and tails need to be slathered with sunblock to protect them against skin cancer as they work under the tropical sun. Despite the £4,500 ($6,900) cost of training each animal, they are far cheaper and quicker than their human rivals: Apopo says its rats can each search 200 square metres of land in just 20 minutes; people using metal detectors would take five days to search the same area. In Mozambique – which was heavily mined during the independence struggle and the country's subsequent 15-year civil war – Apopo's rats, handlers, manual demining teams and armoured vehicles have so far found and destroyed more than 13,000 landmines, reclaiming more than 11million square metres (1,100 hectares) of land. Today, as training manager, Abdullah Mchomvu carries a clipboard and keeps a beady eye on the handlers as they drill rats named after footballers, a 1980s action star (Dolph), a mythical beast (Dragon) and, less glamorously, someone called Ron. Twelve years ago, he was among the first Apopo staff to take their rookie rats into the minefields of Mozambique's Gaza province. Now I have no problem going into a minefield. If the rats go into an area and don't find anything, I'm fine to go in Training manager Abdullah Mchomvu "On the first day, I was totally afraid," he says. "There were a lot of skeletons in army uniforms and I was worried that if the rats scratched too hard, they might set off the mines." However, the rats quickly proved their worth: every spot over which they stopped and signalled later disclosed a hidden device. "Everything they found was a mine, so that reduced my fear," he says. "Now I have no problem going into a minefield. If the rats go into an area and don't find anything, I'm fine to go in there." Trust in the rats is vital, according to Tim Edwards, Apopo's head of training and behavioural research. In the rare event that one of the animals repeatedly proves itself unable to master the techniques of mine detection, it is withdrawn from training but kept on as a playmate for its more successful peers. "We do have a range of what people might call personalities in the rats: some are a bit more active and are really eager to go and run really fast when they get on the ground," he says. "Usually, any extreme behaviour – either too quick or too slow, or too social or not social enough – can make them a little bit too difficult to train. We see quite a bit of variance, but ideally we have a nice balance between a rat that's easy to handle but is also active and aggressive enough to go out there and find the mines." To keep the gene pool strong and clear, rats are bred from high-performing male mine rats and wild females. But even that blend is no guarantee of detection perfection. "At each stage, there is a test and the rat must pass the test after a certain number of tries, otherwise it's deemed unsuitable," says Edwards. "Some rats do fail and we're doing dangerous work and we don't want to put rats into the field that can't do it." Apopo's rats are not all engaged in detecting explosives. While the mine trainees are on their way back to headquarters, their medical colleague Wilbard is hard at work in the laboratory, sniffing samples of human sputum to see if he can pick up the familiar bouquet of tuberculosis. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A young rat being rewarded with a syringe of avocado and banana during an early stage of training. Photograph: Sam Jones for the Guardian The samples, which come from hospitals and clinics in Dar es Salaam and Morogoro, are heat-treated to kill the pathogens before being handled by staff and put before the rats. Although the sputum has already been checked once by conventional lab tests, the rats often find missed cases of TB. If two rats identify TB in the sample, it is taken for re-examination in the lab. Clinics and hospitals then contact the patient to begin treatment and prevent further contagion. Apopo says its rats have so far identified more than 7,000 tuberculosis patients who were missed by human technicians, potentially halting more than 24,000 further infections and increasing detection rates by more than 45%. Once again, the rodents have the edge on their human counterparts when it comes to speed: TB-detection rats such as Wilbard can screen 100 samples in 20 minutes; while the same task would take a lab technician four days. Georgies Mgode, a microbiologist who works as Apopo's Tanzanian tuberculosis programme manager, says the rats have already done much to halt the spread of the disease, which killed 1.5 million people around the world in 2013. "If you consider the number of patients who have been cured of TB because of the rat technology, the impact is huge," he says. "A person who suffers from TB loses a lot: they can't work; they're stigmatised." With sufficient support from policymakers, the general public and private partners, he adds, huge progress could be made in reducing the burden of TB in Africa and improving people's economic prospects. Apopo, which received an award of £200,000 ($305,000) last year from the People's Postcode Lottery, believes the rats have even more to offer than mine detection and TB screening. It is not inconceivable that the rodents could one day be seen strolling on leashes through airports, sniffing at suitcases, or working in hospitals. "We do have a lot of interest from other people in the medical industry and also from the security sector, who would like to be able to check for contraband and other dangerous items in cargo," says Edwards. "Currently, there's a lot of interest in sniffing for cancer. We've also been contacted about hypoglycemia and some other medical applications. There's so much potential; it's just a matter of finding the time and the resources to investigate it." For now, Weetjens sees the animals as miniature, but potent, agents of development. By diagnosing TB and helping to get farmers and communities back on to land long denied them, he says, the rats are playing an important part in social transformation and local empowerment. He laughs off the common misconception that Apopo clears minefields by sending in legions of kamikaze rats who sacrifice themselves, pointing out that it fits, all too neatly, with centuries of anti-rat propaganda. "For many people it's a logical jump," he says. "It clearly shows what the prevailing opinion about rats is: since the Middle Ages, they have generally been seen as vermin and transmitters of plague – for which, by the way, they were not responsible. It was the fleas on the rats – and people – that transmitted the plague, not the rats." In fact, he adds, rats have always had a symbiotic relationship with humanity. "In a way, we should be grateful to them for cleaning up our mess or at least take some responsibility for their profusion: they eat the garbage we produce." Although giant pouched rats are still seen by many in Tanzania and elsewhere as little more than candidates for either the panga knife or the pan, Mchomvu also feels their efforts are long overdue some recognition. He has worked alongside them to dispose of far worse than rubbish. "In Mozambique, people fought, they laid mines and then they shook hands and went away," he says. "But they left all those mines behind and they killed farmers. Now our rats are clearing the land and helping people use it again. To me, they are just heroes." • This article was amended on 5 March 2015 to correct the figure for the People's Postcode Lottery award to £200,000 rather than £175,000.

Daisy was seven when I bought her, I also received her papers. On Daisy's birthday I decided to contact her breeder by email. I sent her birthday photos and info on how she was doing. That evening I received a phone call from the breeder who was very happy I had contacted her, she said she loved hearing how her dogs are going. I usually email Daisy's breeder with birthday photos and an update each year now.

Reasons for live baiting .... This in the Gympie Times: http://www.gympietim...-that-/2563958/ DISGRACED greyhound trainer Tom Noble claims that hundreds of greyhounds would have been destroyed by their owners if they hadn't been able to kill live animals. The Churchable trainer, now banned from the sport for life, said greyhounds who refused to chase were given live kills on the lure in a final bid to prove they could be competitive. Mr Noble said he was known as someone who could get a dog to chase if the owner was desperate. "It is the wrong thing to do but if you've got greyhounds and you're desperate, what are you going to do - put your dog down?" he said "Wouldn't you rather put a feral pig down than your dog if you were in that position yourself?" edited as I didn't put in all of the article

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Do you think it may be worth while putting an advertisment in 'The land' newspaper? http://www.theland.com.au/ If you contact them they may possibly give you a reduced rate for rescue. Just a thought :)

For those, like me, who didn't watch Four Corners here is an article from Business Insider article (I have deleted the photo) http://www.businessi...6ba2d-278988661 Greyhound racing industry in damage control after horrifying Four Corners exposé on live baiting The Australian greyhound racing industry is in crisis and scrambling to control illegal practices that have gone undetected for years after the ABC TV's Four Corners showed some of the country's top trainers using live animals, including rabbits, possums and baby piglets to train dogs. The distressing secret footage shows dogs chasing, mauling, killing and tearing apart live animals apart as part of their training. In one instance, a possum remained alive, despite being torn nearly in half, and was still attached to the mechanical lure only by its spinal cord. In a damning indictment on the sport, the program, titled "Making A Killing", broadcast footage of dogs being trained using banned live baiting in three states, Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales. The incidents were captured in secret surveillance footage by animal rights group Animals Australia. Live baiting is banned and illegal across Australia, with the penalties for animal cruelty ranging between two and five years' jail in the various states and fines up to $30,000. It's sometimes referred to as "blooding" the dog. Some trainers believe the dogs will perform better as a result when chasing mechanical baits during a race. Organisations such as the RSPCA continue to campaign against live baiting and last week conducted raids on five properties in the three states after the Four Corners program passed on details of its investigations. Lyn White from Animals Australia claimed up to 70 people were implicated in the investigation, including top trainers, a greyhound racing club president and a former steward. One of the men caught tying a live pig to the lure has twice won greyhound trainer of the year. The industry responded to the revelations last week by suspending 22 people for using live animal baiting – six in NSW, including a licensed trainer, 10 in Victoria and seven trainers in Queensland. A number of greyhounds have also been scratched from competition and a trial track in Box Hill, NSW, closed, and the Tooradin trial track's registration suspended. The also face up to 10-year bans from the sport as well as potential criminal charges. GRV CEO Adam Wallish forewarned of the damage to the industry in an internal email obtained by the ABC. He warned against attacking the messenger, saying "Be angry at those within the sport that are doing the wrong thing and undermining the values for which we stand. "We should all be shocked and outraged by the allegations in the story and prepared to fight the small minority that continue to partake in such practices jeopardising the future of the sport." The Four Corners exposé has brought a swift response from state governments, with Victorian minister for racing, Martin Pakula, announcing immediately after the program that he told the racing industry to cancel its awards night next week. Additionally I have instructed GRV to cancel next Friday's Greyhound Industry Award night and Chairman Peter Caillard has agreed #4corners — Martin Pakula (@MartinPakulaMP) February 16, 2015 Pakula and agriculture minister Jaala Pulford also announced an investigation into animal cruelty in the greyhound racing industry by Victoria's chief veterinary officer, as well as an independent investigation by Racing Integrity commissioner Sal Perna. The Government will also give $3 million to Greyhound Racing Victoria to improve its animal welfare and integrity measures, including surveillance technology to assist with detection and prosecution; and a dedicated steward to inspect and monitor the 15 private trial tracks registered with GRV. "Live-baiting is barbaric, abhorrent and illegal – it has absolutely no place in Victoria's racing industry and it must be stopped," Pakula said. Four Corners detailed how there had been just two prosecutions for live baiting in the last 10 years. Greyhounds Australasia CEO Scott Parker claimed it was difficult to detect because live baiting occurred in remote locations. Racing Queensland, which declined to appear on the progam, announced a $1 million taskforce to combat live baiting and cruelty claims on Sunday. In NSW, racing minister Troy Grant said he was "shocked and appalled by the absolutely abhorrent and distressing footage shown in the Four Corners report". The NSW Government is currently overseeing a scheduled five-year statutory review of the Greyhound Racing Act 2009. The Minister's response was to extend the date for submissions by two weeks to March 2, 2015. Greyhound Racing NSW (GRNSW) announced the establishment of a taskforce headed by former High Court justice Michael McHugh to "investigate the extent of live baiting within the NSW greyhound racing industry". But it's not the first time the $3 billion industry has been plagued by serious allegations. In October 2013, the ABC's 7.30 aired claims by a former NSW industry vet of doping and cruelty. GRNSW denied the claims at the time, but former NSW auditor general David Landa, who was asked in 2011 to examine claims of misconduct, quit in 2012, saying he was obstructed from investigating by the industry body, who "simply did not want oversight". Landa added that he wrote to the NSW Racing Minister George Souris with advice but did not get a response.