Anima Macau is expecting a response from Legislator and Sociedade de Jogos de Macau (SJM) Managing Director Angela Leong, regarding its demand to release all the dogs racing at the Canidrome, in anticipation of the termination of the group’s land contract in July 2018. Albano Martins, Anima’s President, requests the local government to enable Anima Macau ‘to run the Canidrome premises for one year, after it finishes its activity or whenever it decides to close the business.’ Their aim in requesting this is to allow an adoption programme to be put in place, Mr. Martins explained. Anima’s president states that the Canidrome currently owns some 650 dogs, over 500 of which are indirectly owned by gamblers. “Some of the owners of these dogs have already said that they would like the animals to be delivered to us,” Mr. Martins said. Above all, he added, “we don’t want that the possibility of having those dogs racing illegally in China is created. And at the same time, we wish to avoid that they end up in a cooking pot. The picture that it would create for the image of Macau is very bad if the greyhound dogs are sent to China.” In the written letter delivered to the Canidrome Chairperson, Anima further claimed that ‘the transfer of all those dogs to Anima, free of any charge for [the] organization, will be made also without any future costs for Canidrome, as [Anima] will keep all animals and pay all future bills.”