Llanharan's Hope Rescue has criticised the Welsh Government's Animal Welfare Plan for not imposing a ban on Greyhound racing.
The Animal Welfare Plan for Wales 2021-26 aims to enable "all animals in Wales to have a good quality life" by introducing a broad range of policies to maintain established reforms.
Although Hope Rescue welcomes its positive measures, it believes not enough is being done for racing Greyhounds.
A Welsh Government statement reads: "Our plan includes the realisation of four Programme for Government commitments in relation to animal welfare, and also outlines how we will integrate a broad range of ongoing animal welfare policy work, including statutory guidance for existing Regulations, licensing of animal exhibits, welfare of animals in transport, and Codes of Practice.
"The need for review of existing animal welfare legislation is recognised, along with maintaining some flexibility should new policy actions be required.
"Finally, the plan addresses how, and where appropriate, we will work in collaboration with other UK administrations to achieve our objectives in the best interests of animal welfare in Wales, and beyond."
Hope Rescue launched a petition in September to 'ban greyhound racing in Wales' - and is set to be considered for debate in the Senedd.
Their petition, which has been signed by more then 20,000 people, reads: "In Wales we have one independent greyhound track racing once a week.
"Since April 2018, Hope Rescue & their rescue partners have taken in almost 200 surplus greyhounds from this track, 40 of which sustained injuries.
"There are plans for the track to become a Greyhound Board of Great Britain track, racing four times a week, greatly increasing the number of surplus dogs and injuries.
"Greyhound racing is inherently cruel and greyhounds have little legal protection. It is already banned in 41 US states."
Hope Rescue is urging dog lovers to write to their local Member of the Senedd to asked for their support towards a ban on Greyhound racing, rather than regulation.
A spokesperson for Hope Rescue said: “We’re overwhelmingly supportive of the Plan, just not the potential proposal for greyhounds when there is the option to consider a ban.
“We strongly believe that greyhound racing is an inherently cruel sport.
“Every year thousands of greyhounds suffer catastrophic injuries or are killed while racing, including at our local track in Ystrad Mynach.
“The industry also creates thousands of surplus dogs annually that then need rescuing by overstretched animal welfare organisations.
“One example is a greyhound called Sienna, that badly broke her leg racing at Valleys track and needed to have it amputated.
“Regulation will not prevent dogs like Sienna from getting injured, it will not prevent them from dying and it won’t prevent them from needing to be rescued by overstretched animal welfare organisations.
“A ban is the only way to truly protect greyhounds in Wales and stop plans to intensify it. Greyhounds deserve better.”
The Government plan comes after Wales’ Greyhound racing track, Valley Greyhounds in Ystrad Mynach, announced their intention to sell the race track to the owner and promoter of Harlow Greyhound Stadium in Essex.
He intends to register it as a Greyhound Board of Great Britain licensed track.
In response to the petition, a Valley Greyhound Stadium spokesperson said: “The valleygreyhounds.org website publishes very comprehensive records of all races at The Valley including detailed analysis of what happened to every greyhound in every race.
"This data shows that, out of 4,652 runs by greyhounds in races during the period of The Valley's association with Hope Rescue, only 24 greyhounds suffered a serious injury (typically, a bone fracture) during a race.
"This represents a serious injury rate of only 0.5 per cent, compared with an average of 0.6 per cent for the UK's eighteen professional greyhound racing tracks.
"Out of 409 greyhounds that ran in races at The Valley during the same period, 231 greyhounds were retired while attached to The Valley.
"The Valley Greyhound Stadium approached Hope Rescue for details of the ear marks of the greyhounds referred to in the charity's publicity to enable it to cross-reference the data with its own very detailed records."
A spokesperson from the Greyhound Board of Great Britain said: "The petition claims that our sport is inherently cruel; this statement is utterly false and insulting to the thousands of hardworking individuals within our sport.”
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