At the Macau Regency Art Hotel in Taipa on Friday afternoon an announcement was made in front of local and international media that Anima and Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. had made peace for the good of the 533 left behind greyhounds after the closure of the dog racing track on Friday August 20.
At a joint press conference that would have been beyond the wildest imagination of the assembled media just a few short weeks ago former sworn enemies President of Anima Albano Martins and Executive Director of the Canidrome Angela Leong On Kei announced that they had set up a non-profit association named International Rehoming Centre for Greyhounds (Macau) (IRCG) that will be completely funded by Leong until all the greyhounds are re-homed or until the unadopted greyhounds die.
On Thursday the Civic and Municipal Bureau (IACM) announced that Yat Yuen had applied to move the 533 greyhounds still living in cell-like kennels in the now defunct racetrack to a “vacant” building on a privately-owned plot of land in Pac On in Taipa.
This undated image of an artist’s impression of the improved greyhound’s kennels at the future premises in Pac On was shown during Friday’s press conference at the Regency Art Hotel in Taipa. Photo: Lesley Wells
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