Lisa Owen

All we're doing at this stage, Lisa, is just gauging interest to see if there's any demand for it.

So we're projecting that 31 July there'll still be about 1,700 dogs to rehome.

So we believe there may be some individuals might want to send some dogs to Australia.

We're not talking about sending every dog in their kennel, but there may be a trainer looking to send two or three, and then you add who would be competitive in Australia and a chance for them to minimise some of the expenses they've incurred.

So we're looking to see whether collectively there is enough interest to justify a charter flight.

So at this stage, all we're doing is gauging interest.

So what is the spirit?

Well, we are looking to ensure that some of our people may reduce some of the losses they're incurring.

And it also ensures that

Some of our top competitive greyhounds go and race in Australia, no different to what happens with the thoroughbred and harness horses, who also will be in line with strong welfare standards.

There's no guarantee that it will happen unless we can make it viable up around the 60 to 70 number.

But it's still a very minor number of the 1,700 that will need to be rehomed post 1 August 2020.

No, they would probably race them.

It would be only the very top dogs that would be competitive, no different to the top thoroughbred and harness horses who go over to Australia and race.

It's something we think could be a win-win from a transitional agency point of view and from our own point of view, our view in terms of supporting our people and reducing some of the impact that they've had.