TASMANIAN businesswoman Jan Cameron has offered use of her 250 hectare Southern Tasmanian property to rehabilitate and re-home former racing greyhounds in the wake of a live baiting scandal.
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Ms Cameron announced yesterday she had joined forces with Animals Australia, the organisation which last week helped ABC’s Four Corners expose the use of live rabbits, piglets and possums to train dogs interstate.
She has written to racing authorities and state racing ministers offering to make her Drysart property available if they help with grants for infrastructure and rehabilitation costs.
Ms Cameron said the offer was conditional on Animals Australia managing the rehabilitation and re-homing centre, as she wanted to ensure that any healthy greyhounds unsuitable for re-homing would have sanctuary for life.
Animals Australia communications director Lisa Chalk said Racing Queensland has already seized 70 dogs, and others were in the custody of suspended trainers.
Ms Chalk said many of them could be disqualified from racing because they were trained by illegal methods, and Animals Australia was concerned about what would happen to them once they could no longer race.
The Tasmanian government last week ordered a review into animal welfare safeguards in the state’s greyhound racing industry.
However, Racing Minister Jeremy Rockliff said there was no evidence the practice had taken place in Tasmania since 2008.
