The Greyhounds racing: the truth behind the Greyhounds racing Industry
In Macau the situation is very bad: 30 dogs are being killed at a very young age, between one and three years old.
The effect of that killing is that the track replaces all animals (around 700) in two years time!
We have calculated with the information provided by the Macau track that they are killing of around 30 animals per month.
The number of animals being inactive for reasons such as tiredness, injuries or sickness reaches, using the track’s own numbers, is more than 40 per cent in several months!
The ratio of injury is over 20 percent in many months also. The track is old and the number of races per day as well the number of races per month exceeds the good sense. Even in an old track we believe that those figures are not real, meaning only an excuse for them to kill innocent animals without invoking lost of competitiveness!
The concession contract only obliges the track to have 12 races per day and 160 days of races per year. What are they doing? 18 races per day and 264 days of races per year!
As all you know, the races are conducted at night, from 7:30 pm to 11:45 pm which, compared with other tracks all over the world, is really very intensive and a torture for those animals.
Anima can not close the eyes to this torture.
When we were informed at the end of 2011 of the situation of the Canidrome, we could not imagine how serious it was.
Anima is organizing an International Roundtable on Greyhounds in July in Macau! A petition for the end of the concession is already online and signatures are being collected all over Macau. In less than three weeks we have more than 5,000 supporters!
Let’s put an end to all this cruelty!