Comments on: Health Inspections For Racing Cows, Pigs, Goats, Sheep, and Deer https://boiseguardian.com/2015/05/05/health-inspections-for-racing-cows-pigs-goats-sheep-and-deer/ A different slant on the news. Wed, 06 May 2015 14:51:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: bikeboy https://boiseguardian.com/2015/05/05/health-inspections-for-racing-cows-pigs-goats-sheep-and-deer/#comment-99486 Wed, 06 May 2015 14:51:18 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=11872#comment-99486 While on the topic of critter-racing…

Has anybody heard whether the Weenie Dog Races are still on?

The Boise Host Lions scheduled a racing event on May 30 as a fund raiser… the Second Annual! But then an area greyhound rescue group threw a wrench in the cogs, pointing out that dog racing is a felony in Idaho.

Story: http://www.kboi2.com/news/local/Wiener-dog-racing-legal-or-not-298408171.html

Oh, the irony! Lions being jailed for racing weenie-dogs!

Perhaps a veterinarian in the Guardian reading audience could tell us if dachshunds can get the dreaded mouth blisters.

]]> By: chicago sam https://boiseguardian.com/2015/05/05/health-inspections-for-racing-cows-pigs-goats-sheep-and-deer/#comment-99482 Wed, 06 May 2015 13:35:41 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=11872#comment-99482 I can assure you VS is no joke if it shows up. Closely related to hoof and mouth disease it showed up in dairy cattle in Idaho in the 1990’s. The state was quarantined and serious economic harm to dairyman raising replacement heifers for the California market as they had no where to go with their heifers which when impregnated could not wait for the quarantine to be lifted. There is also online a story where the contact person for a minor outbreak in Montpelier in horses is referred to a Wayne Hoffman with the Idaho Dept. of Agriculture.

]]> By: Grumpy ole Guy https://boiseguardian.com/2015/05/05/health-inspections-for-racing-cows-pigs-goats-sheep-and-deer/#comment-99476 Wed, 06 May 2015 03:48:28 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=11872#comment-99476 I heard on NPR just last week that pigs can run as fast as 30 MPH. Is the Guardian now an advocate of and for (healthy) pig racing?

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