Fines for Abandoned Greyhounds

Sun, Dec 16, 2018

There are penalties in store for Macau Canidrome Co. Ltd., home of a former dog track that failed to find homes for 500 displaced greyhounds. The government will assess a fine of 50,000 patacas (US$6,200) per dog.

Track owned by lawmaker Leong

The Macau government will fine the owners of a former dog track that did not honor its pledge to find homes for some 500 racing greyhounds.

According to the Macau Post Daily, Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau President Jose Fonseca Tavares confirmed that the bureau will fine Macau (Yat Yuen) Canidrome Co. Ltd., operator of the Fai Chi Kei racetrack, 50,000 patacas (US$6,200) per dog for a total of up to 25 million patacas (US$3.1 million).

Yat Yuen is headed by legislator and gaming executive Angela Leong, who personally pledged to relocate the greyhounds when the Fai Chi Kei racetrack closed on July 20. At that time, 533 greyhounds were left behind, and the track asked for an extension to find homes for the dogs. Several rehoming efforts fell flat, and the fate of the dogs remains in question.

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