Hundreds of Greyhounds safe!

[Catherine]

The notorious Canidrome in Macau has finally been shut down!!!!! 
In the fifty years it has been open tens of thousands of greyhounds have been killed. No dog gets out alive. A dog that wasn't fast enough was killed. It has been described as a death camp for dogs and rightly so. 
Slower dogs from other places like Australia were sold and ultimately sentenced to death.


https://www.thedodo.com/close-to-home/ca...loses-2018



https://youtu.be/znq5AHPYcoM

Now that it is closed the hundreds of dogs still there are going to be cared for until they can find homes.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/help-a...4zu93.html

Since the Canidrome was the worst of the worst of greyhound racing sites the situation for greyhounds has improved greatly. Dogs from Australia can no longer be shipped off to the Canidrome.  It won't be worth it for those breeders to continue.
It also sets a precedent that greyhound abuse is no longer acceptable. 
Dare we hope that this is the beginning of an actual cleanup of an industry that seems to be based on animal cruelty.

[Tobi]

It's good to see this place has been shut down. And that the Greyhounds now have a chance of being re-homed.

What a horrible industry. A cruel life for those dogs. Only Humans could dream this up for the sake of money......

[Catherine]

It is a sick industry. This one place is just part of it, but it was a particularly bad part. It feels good to  know that for one group of greyhounds the horror is over and they actually get a chance to live. So many dogs before them died without ever knowing love or comfort. They lived miserable neglected lives of deprivation and abuse that only ended in death.

I like the fact that they are going to build schools on the land. It will be a useful and happy place in future. I just hope the remember all the dogs that died there. They deserve to be remembered.