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Victorian
Greyhound Weekly Edition 80
Volume 2 Number 28
Friday 13 April
Gap Café now open Greyhound Racing Victoria’s adoption program now has a city-based showcase with the opening of the GAP café. The café is the first in Melbourne to have a greyhound theme and unlike most other food and beverage venues, dogs are allowed inside the premises as well as an outdoor area featuring decking and grass. The café has been built to promote to people in metropolitan Melbourne our beautiful greyhounds and increase the interest in greyhound adoptions. It is based a short walk from Greyhound Racing Victoria’s Chetwynd St offices in West Melbourne and is just 100 metres from the popular Flagstaff Gardens. Minister for Racing, Martin Pakula officially opened the GAPCafé on 14 March. “The Greyhound Adoption Program café will help to improve animal welfare by making adoption even easier and driving up the number of rehomed racing dogs. We’re supporting the greyhound racing industry because it employs thousands of Victorians and injects hundreds of millions in the economy,” Minister Pakula said. With GAP’s headquarters based in Seymour in rural Victoria, GRV CEO Alan Clayton said it was important GAP was visible in the city, as evidenced by
the Baxter facility in south east Melbourne. “Since opening in 2015, we have adopted almost 500 dogs from Baxter alone,” Mr Clayton said. “Given the large number of people in metropolitan Melbourne, we want to promote our dogs to the largest audience possible.” Clayton said the café was another example of GRV’s focus on animal welfare as its overriding priority. “It can be an adjustment for greyhounds not only to go from life as racing animals to life as pets.
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