I write on behalf of greyhounds the world over. When will people stop abusing these wonderful dogs and allow them to live the life they deserve?

In Spain, they are hung and stoned to death when the coursing season is over.

In this country, we cannot hold our heads high either, for they are thrown from speeding cars, shot, drowned and starved of food and love.

Greyhounds have such a wonderful presence - they are graceful, friendly, lazy and so cunning when they want the couch.

To watch them run free, curl up with a kitten or sprawl over the couch is lovely. The people who abuse these dogs don't know what they are missing when they treat them with such disregard.

If they put as much energy into finding these wonderful animals homes as they do into ways of abusing them, greyhounds would have a much better life worldwide.

-Caroline Bassett, Bellingham Crescent, Hove