Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) President Jose Tavares told reporters yesterday that Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd. has paid about 3 million patacas to the bureau as the cost of taking care of its hundreds of greyhounds that the company left behind in their kennels when the dog racetrack closed down for good in July.
According to Tavares, the 3 million patacas payment Yat Yuen settled on Tuesday was for the cost of taking care of the greyhounds at the now defunct racetrack from July to October 6, and that the company would continue to pay for the greyhounds’ expenses.
As of Monday, there were still 463 greyhounds in the kennels at the ex-Canidrome in Fai Chi Kei.
