About 300 greyhounds at the old Canidrome have periodontitis, Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) Administrative Committee President Jose Tavares said yesterday, suggesting that the dogs get treatment for their disease outside of Macau.
Tavares made the remarks when responding to a member of IACM’s Consultative Committee during their regular meeting at the bureau’s head office.
The bureau took over the Canidrome in Fai Chi Kei when the government ordered two years ago it be closed for good. Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome that had a dog-racing concession granted by the government in the 1960s moved out of the former racetrack on July 20, leaving behind its roughly 530 greyhounds in their kennels there.
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