Tracking technology to protect greyhounds will go ahead in Victoria after unanimous support
by Tory Shepherd from World news | The Guardian on (#6A20H)
Motion from Animal Justice Party MP succeeds as regulator welcomes opportunity to update and enhance our existing systems'
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Technology to track greyhounds - monitoring puppy births, stopping greyhounds from going missing" from records, saving them from illegal exportation and recording euthanasias - is set to go ahead in Victoria with the backing of the government and the racing industry regulator.
Georgie Purcell, an Animal Justice party MP, told the parliament on Wednesday about dogs routinely going missing and being illegally exported and killed". In a motion, she called for a digital system to improve greyhound traceability through an automated whole-of-life tracking system".
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