Exclusive | After Macau closes Asia’s only greyhound racing facility, what will happen to its 500 dogs?
With fewer than 100 days to go until last race is run, there is little physical evidence the ramshackle relic of gambling days gone by is going anywhere
Asia’s only official greyhound racing facility is on its last legs.
Dwindling attendances, the transformation of the city around it and, above all, changing public attitudes towards the treatment of animals meant when the official announcement came in January that the Macau Canidrome was to close its doors on July 21, it was hardly a surprise.
But with fewer than 100 days to go until its last race is run, there is little physical evidence the ramshackle relic of gambling days gone by is going anywhere.
Claims emerged in 2016 that the run-down facility was operating a “dog breeding’’ programme, following a high-profile international campaign by animal welfare groups that closed off the last international avenue through which the canidrome could import racing greyhounds.