Fears over fate of Macau greyhounds return as animal rights activist quits group, saying she could ‘no longer stay quiet’ over situation
Zoe Tang says government-imposed deadline to desex all 523 dogs within 60 days is ‘ridiculously tight’ and some could die
Less than two weeks after an initiative was unveiled to build a purpose-built International Centre for the Rehoming of Greyhounds – devised in an unlikely alliance between animal rights activists and one of the most powerful women in the world’s premier casino hub – fresh doubts have emerged over the future of the dogs.
One of the most prominent champions of the dogs has quit Macau’s only animal rights group, Anima, citing what she described as a “ridiculously tight” deadline imposed by officials in the city that all 523 greyhounds be desexed within a 60-day period.
Zoe Tang, a Hong Kong resident who had been active with the group for six years and at the forefront of the campaign to ensure the dogs’ future, also voiced fears the deadline and the conditions in which the animals were still being kept at the ramshackle canidrome meant some of them could die.
In a separate development, Tang’s former colleague and head of Anima, Albano Martins, said on Monday the group was studying the feasibility of a canine airlift of the 532 greyhounds to the United States and Europe by charter flights.
