In Macau, closed Canidrom – dog racing no more!

In Macau, closed Canidrom – dog racing no more!

In Macau, closed Canidrom – dog racing no more!
In the Chinese administrative region of Macau, authorities sheltered more than 500 greyhounds after China’s only dog racing track closed there. This is reported by the Associated Press.
The former Portuguese colony was the only place in China where dog racing was allowed. But the only stadium there was closed: animal rights activists achieved such a decision after they caught the owners in animal cruelty. Activists claimed that the owners of the canidrome euthanized those dogs who performed poorly in the races. They demanded that the stadium be closed and offered to place the animals in families all over the world.
On July 20, the management company owned by the billionaire and wife of a local gaming magnate, Angela Leong Na Kay, left the stadium, Macau Business writes. But when representatives of the local Bureau of Civil and Municipal Affairs arrived at the site, they found that 533 dogs remained at the kanidrome. Some of them had health problems, including skin diseases, according to AP.
According to Macau News, the Macau management company (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. He does not consider dogs to be part of his assets and offers to take care of them to local authorities. But the municipal bureau said they were just shirking their responsibilities of caring for the greyhounds. Now the owners of Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. They can be fined under the Animal welfare Act, and volunteers will take care of the dogs.
Meanwhile, volunteers have already started caring for the animals. Macau Business reports that on July 21, volunteers came to the stadium, walked all the greyhounds in two shifts and provided them with medical care. Volunteers will come to the dogs every day until they are officially recognized as abandoned. Then they will start looking for new homes.
The canidrome first appeared in Macau in 1931, following a similar stadium in Shanghai, which was built in 1928. In 1938, it closed, and in 1949, after the ban on gambling, it stopped working as a canister in Shanghai. But in 1963, the new owners renovated and reopened the Macau running stadium. The hounds were mainly supplied from Australia.
The popularity of dog racing has declined dramatically in recent years. One of the reasons was that this sport is criticized by animal rights activists. Their main complaint is that dogs decommissioned from racing are most often killed.
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