Covertly recorded vision shows a greyhound languishing at Macau’s Canidrome race track. (Supplied: Animals Australia)
The top body for greyhound racing in New South Wales, Australia “has charged 179 dog trainers and owners with breaching the industry regulator’s rules, for the alleged unauthorized exportation of dogs to Macau,” ABC Radio exposed today (Friday).
Exporting dogs to Macau has been banned since 2013 because of an assessment by the national greyhound racing body that it doesn’t comply with Australian welfare standards.
The charges are the result of “an investigation Greyhound Racing New South Wales launched in December last year, following disturbing revelations on the ABC’s program “RN Breakfast” about how hundreds of Australian dogs were being sent to Asia to live and race in inhumane conditions.
The Macau government is under mounting internal and external pressure to close down the Canidrome on grounds of documented cruelty on greyhounds.
You can listen to the full recorded program here:
https://radio.abc.net.au/search?service_guid=RN-bst-20160610-7498948
Thank you for continuing to highlight the greyhound export issue.
Advocates worldwide are working hard and will continue to give their all for these gentle souls.
Very good, informative update on the situation, thank you for sharing the emerging news from Australia. This is still a very important and current topic.
Thank you yet again for a succinct and informative article. The exploitation and killing of ‘racing’ greyhounds has become a matter of urgent concern to a rapidly growing number of people from all walks of life, and from all around the world, including Macau itself of course. Keep up the good work, Daily Times, you have my utmost respect!
Thank you for publishing this update on the greyhound export issue regarding the Australian trainers. The global community are still applying large amounts of pressure to move this issue forward & hopefully stop Ireland continuing to sell & transport greys to their death in Macau
Thank you for keeping this topic alive and allowing readers to make their own decisions based on facts.
Thank you so, so much for keeping this barbaric, cruel trade in the headlines – we MUST bring an end to this, all those dear, sweet, gentle souls have only us to fight for them, they deserve so much better than what they are getting right now.
If saving face is a cultural imperative, surely the Government and Power brokers would close racing down now. Any longer and they risk being seen as ireactive and out of step.
Precedent is no excuse for bad practice.
Thank you so much for keeping this very emotive and cruel subject in the headlines. These dogs are very gentle and will be living inconstant anxiety and fear! You are keeping them in the fore front of the news.
Many thanks to Paulo Coutinho, Macau Daily Times, for keeping readers up to date on this matter. Tens of thousands of people worldwide are following this story closely, and praying for the closure of the Canidrome and the safe return of all those beautiful, gentle dogs to their home country if possible, or at least to be homed with loving adoptive families elsewhere. Greyhounds make greyt pets! x
Thank you for continuing to speak of the plight of the greyhounds in Macau.
The Canidrome MUST be closed!