****Update 4/14/2021 - See below for update****
As you can see in the
above screen shots, this person claimed to be speaking on behalf of a greyhound
named W.W. Flicka. This person is associated with an organization claiming to
"protect dogs" in Florida. Now I have to ask, if a person is
claiming to be about protecting dogs and speaking for a particular dog, would
not such a person do all they can to find a dog they admit they do not know the
“whereabouts” of?
When I heard about this
testimony my first thought was that something just didn't add up. Individuals
and organizations want the public to think and vote the way they tell them
regarding greyhound racing in Florida and yet, they do not know the current
location and condition of W.W. Flicka, a greyhound they not only claim to speak
for but that they use as a poster child against racing. Do they really not know
or just lied during testimony?
With that in mind I set
out to discover where in the world is W.W. Flicka.
I posed the question to
someone in April 2018 and received an answer - W.W. Flicka is on the farm.
Ok...that was
easy.
In June 2018 I found
myself in close proximity to the farm I was told that W.W. Flicka was at. I
made a phone call and in less than 5 minutes I had the location verified. I
then asked if I could visit and spend time with W.W. Flicka.
Without any hesitation
the voice on the other end of the phone gave an enthusiastic "yes".
Ladies and gentleman,
despite a particular person who claims to be speaking for W.W. Flicka, who
stated for the record before the Florida Constitutional Committee that the
whereabouts of W.W. Flicka was “unknown”, I am happy to report that W.W. Flicka
whereabouts have never been unknown and all it took was asking one simple
question.
W.W. Flicka is a happy,
bouncy tiny girl who never stopped wagging her tail and giving kisses during my
visit with her. Following are some photos of W.W. Flicka and myself taken by my
wife who has granted me permission to reproduce the photos in this
blog.
So, the next time you
are indoctrinated with rhetoric from those who seek to protect dogs by banning
racing in addition to making no effort to back up claims of unknown locations,
ask yourself, why was it easier for them to testify that W.W. Flicka's whereabouts
were unknown when it was always known by those who truly care and love greyhounds.
How is lying showing concern for the dogs? Why it's almost as if those who seek
to destroy the greyhound industry wanted the public and the Florida
Constitutional Committee to think that W.W. Flicka was missing...or worse.
Rory: From parts unknown...
Revisiting the WW’s Flicka blog from 2018.
Some questions that still remain -
1. Why was Flicka removed from Florida jurisdiction and moved to a farm with little to no oversite from any racing regulators?
2. Why didn’t the industry itself disclose the whereabouts of Flicka as soon as Flicka's whereabouts were publicly questioned?
3. Why did a person "from parts unknown" need to locate and disclose the whereabouts?
Not a can of worms I would want opened in oral arguments or in depositions.
#ProtectTheDogs, #ProtectTheGreyhounds, #VoteNoOn13, #FloridaCRC, #FloridaVotes
