The "Vote No on Three" people tried all their tactics: downplaying the cruelty, the injuries and deaths that surround the "sport" of greyhound racing; trying to shift the emphasis away from this cruelty and concentrating on the jobs that would eventually be lost; making deceiving signs that read "Save Our Dogs" with a pawprint on them; trying to argue that Grey2K received money from less than animal friendly groups; trying to insist that the dogs would be homeless if they couldn't live at the track; that they LOVE living in those "dens" for hours on end.

Guess what? This year, it didn't work.

Question Three passed, easily, which proves the general masses are waking up.

By 2010, the horribly cruel sport of greyhond racing will be extinct in Massachusetts, and hopefully will follow suit in all other states.

This was not a decision made only by "animal rights extremists," another position advocates of the tracks like to pronounce. No, it was made by people who realize that no living creature deserves to live this way. To all those who own tracks, support the tracks or work at the tracks, or anyone who confines animals in cages for ridiculous lengths of time: YOU try living in a cage for 22 hours a day. Try it for a week. Then get back to us and let us know how you feel about it.

Meanwhile, we will revel in the fact that you can no longer do this to greyhounds in Massachusetts come 2010.

Thank you voters. Thank you Committee to Protect Dogs and thank you Grey2K USA.

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