At the end of last month, the last of the hundreds of abandoned Yat Yuen (Macau) Canidrome greyhounds left the Fai Chi Kei kennels, due to a sterling effort by rescue groups around the world, led by the Society for the Protection of Animals (ANIMA) President Albano Martins, and the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM). Now it is the turn of the city’s strays to find the loving homes they deserve.
Last week the MPD Weekender sat down in a local hotel with Fátima Galvão, the head of the Macau Association For Stray Dogs and Animal Welfare (MASDAW), to talk about the difficulties and problems faced by her organisation, the Municipal Affairs Bureau and the animals that are rescued or abandoned.
Galvão said that while the rehoming of the greyhounds overseas was a priority it stretched the Municipal Affairs Bureau as it did not have the staff to give the abandoned animals in their care the attention they needed.
A group of dogs living on a construction site last month. Three females are constantly giving birth. The owner of the place only feeds them and doesn’t allow the dogs to be desexed. If injured or caught by the Municipal Affairs Bureau the dogs new dogs will be brought in. Photo Fátima Galvão
