Anima, an animal rights group in Macau, is taking aim at the Macau Canidrome. The greyhound racetrack has announced plans to relocate the greyhounds to the Jockey Club temporarily, but Anima has balked at the idea.

Macau Canidrome is currently looking for a permanent home for the 600 canines. It presented its Jockey Club proposal to the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) last Friday, but the animal rights group has argued that the conditions and lack of space at the Jockey Club make the location unsuitable for the animals.

Albano Martins, the head of the activist group, said, “The Jockey Club has no capacity or even quality for those animals to be there,” said Martins. “There are two stables completely destroyed. They need to be rebuilt. They need to do fences, to close many of these areas. And I don’t believe that any of them (stables) can have more than 40 animals each. I don’t believe. So even if they have 50, all together (it’s) one hundred animals there.”

The racetrack also asked for an extension of three months, which was supposedly needed to give the dogs time to pass through a quarantine period and customs clearing process. However, the IACM immediately rejected the request, adding that it would facilitate the processes for the company.