Interesting to see if GrNsw or Grv decides (or bothers) to try to follow suit, as word was going around the traps a while back suggesting that there was plenty of "international business" coming out of a couple of high profile, major kennels, and which would make Qld look like a blip on the radar.

And I wonder how many prominent sires widely known to have exited our shores had all their passports / paperwork in order? I'd be betting that PLENTY might have "slipped through the net".

But like I said, does / should anyone really care in any event? Weren't the "Doggy Passports" mostly a flagrant revenue raiser anyway?

Exactly what I was thinking. Are they just a revenue raiser?

Jack, thinking positive. Couple of things................1.the Asian Culture and way of thinking is totally different to ours and 2. they eat dogs in China.

I was there living the culture for three months in the middle nineties and even though times have changed culture always remains constant.

I would love to see photo's of the studs and other dogs that have been sent there for profit to see there living conditions. We have lost some really top class breeding stock.

Charlie ... a couple of friends of mine have just come back from China and said that the VAST majority of Chinese don't eat dog and the small MINORITY that do, eat a dog bred specifically for that purpose ... they don't just go out into the street and nab the neighbour's pooch .. which seems to be the image conjured up when mentioning 'eating dogs'

Those teens are now in their thirties and still remember how the kangaroo's and other aussie animals were poorly treated so much so that they wrote to the consulate for action.

Just Googled "dog eating in China" Yuk Mid 2015 is when things might have slowed down or stopped. They had a dog eating festival!

And I am not saying our greys are being eaten......just that I hope they are living how we would keep ours here. Cheers

The passport to export registered greyhounds (note the word registered) to certain countries i.e. those countries that do not have animal welfare strategies in place, was instigated to try and stop our greyhounds being exported into an unknown future however, the passport ruling has failed 100%. The passports gaping loophole can only be eradicated by a Federal Government ruling which will not be happening any time soon

How very sad that all that can been seen when discussing the rehoming of greyhounds is the $ sign.

Yulin Dog Meat Festival 2015: Chinese Increasingly Disinterested In Controversial Event by Michelle FlorCruz

Chinas annual dog meat festival, held every June, has drawn international criticism of the event, where thousands of dogs and cats are killed and eaten. The Yulin Dog Meat Festival, a summer solstice celebration held in southwest Chinas Guangxi province, though criticized most heavily by the West, has become less popular among Chinese as well.

Eating dog meat has never been a widespread tradition in China, limited almost strictly to a few cities in southern China. Still, for those who celebrate, holding the annual festival is an important enough tradition that organizers continue to hold the event despite calls from animal rights activists and even local governments that place restrictions on the event.

On Twitter, several celebrities and animal rights groups joined in using the hashtag #StopYulin2015 to send around a petition on Change.org calling for the governor of Guangxi province to stop this year's events. The Chinese social media platform Weibo found that the Chinese general public was also on the same page. A report by the Chinas official Communist Party newspaper, the Peoples Daily, found that #YulinDogMeatFestival was trending on Weibo, with more than 350,000 posts opposing the event, in addition to #SayNoToYulinDogMeatFestival.

Data provided by Chinas biggest search engine, Baidu, shows that interest in the festival has declined over the years. Searches for dog meat on the search engine have declined during the seven-day period preceding the annual event by 38 percent year on year. Similarly, searches for dog meat festival declined by 57 percent year on year, and other terms also associated with the event, like "how to cook it" and "when is the festival," have also declined.

Despite a general distaste for the festival, hundreds of traders gathered this past Sunday for the annual feast, where dog meat is still served traditionally with lychee fruit. Animal rights activists picketed the event and did their best to block streets, raid slaughterhouses and buy dogs that were still alive in an attempt to save them.

Though the slaughter and consumption of dog meat is not illegal in China, the decreased interest likely has to do with a couple factors: increased pet ownership and health officials speaking more outwardly of the health risks associated with consumption. A pet ownership boom in China has given way to an estimated 30 million households keeping dogs as pets, likely contributing to the festival's diminishing popularity. Rights groups say that the government has an obligation to step in and stop the festival on the grounds of health-related issues. Adam Parascandola, the director of animal cruelty issues at the Humane Society of the U.S., said in a statement that the festival is a total breach of Chinas very clear laws on animals for human consumption, adding that ignoring them is a form of flouting national laws.

The festival in Yulin began in 2009 among the citys dog traders. Similar events in other cities, like Jinhua, located in east Chinas Zhejiang province, cancelled their 600-year-old dog meat festival in 2011 after widespread criticism.

2 of the above have been issued monetary fines (Why? What's the real difference?); while the other 4 have in effect been let off with a warning / caution against further, similar 'breaches'.

And to 'correct' an earlier post, I note that some of these alleged 'breaches' "suddenly deemed as important" are stated to have occurred (wait for it!) "between 2007 - 2009"!!!

Yep, good to see our Integrity monies are being prudently spent (not!!!) .... and that the team sure was on the ball!

And therefore it begs the question: WHAT took so long to detect these alleged 'breaches'; and HOW (or from WHO) did the information suddenly become available?

Also, can anyone enlighten me: When were "Passports" first introduced; when were the "rules" updated making it an 'offence' to export without a Passport; and what other 'changes' in policy have since occurred? It might be very interesting to get a handle on these latter points.

The mind boggles ....

POSH IN TANG