Geoffggi

1 minute ago, Thunglom said:

Think bout it - loads of countries have had feral dog problems, in the UK it peaked around late Victorian times. Then public health measures the public became more aware.

covid has brought about a wave of pet buying in the UK and this has lead to an increase in stray dogs.

 

however there are some crucial difference in Thailand.

To have a dog population the dogs need food - and dogs primarily feed of rubbish/garbage. In Thailand were is a secondary problem of feeding dogs as people hope it makes merit.

 

To curb the dog population the first step is CNVR capture neuter, vaccinate release.  - release is important as it stops the dog's place being filed by another.

the next major thing to do is cut off the supply of food. This is a public health issue and requires a better garbage disposal regime - from bins used by business to collection and dumping. If the dogs can't access food the population will start to shrink - and the dogs will even stop breeding.

Te other side of the food supply are the merit-making general public who think they are being kind to animals by feeding them - all they are doing is promoting the growth of the population.

any Thai people also quite like a few dogs hanging around in their Soi and put food out every morning - their reasoning is they keep crime down by barking and chasing singers away. (including joggers and anyone passing through on a bike.

 

In your mind I suppose you think you are correct, in my mind these methods have been going on here for years to no avail, it needs a more direct approach and that is my final conclusion.

8 minutes ago, Thunglom said:

Not correct.

If you go in and cull a population -of say 100.000 dogs.

you first problem is HOW.

Poisoning kills all sorts of other wildlife

Shooting is not guaranteed effective - you end up with wounded animals crawling into places and dying later and you have tens of thousands of carcasses to dispose of. This is a serious logistics problem. furthermore do you want people firing live ammo in an urban environment?

There is also the certainty of a public outcry in Thailand as shown in BKK a few years back.

Those are just some of the immediate problems.

however this is then followed by the second wave.

If you remove a lot of dogs from an area, they are quickly replaced with dogs from adjacent areas and the rate of breeding will rise as well. 

you then end up with dogs from a wider area coming into your "culled" area and bring with them diseases such as rabies and also they may not be neutered and vaccinated so diseases spread thyoughboth dog and human population.

On a world scale culling only works on relatively small and isolated populations such as those on islands. Even then care has t be taken not to introduce new animals into the area.

This is government thinking, feral dogs used to be a problem in the UK but not any more, there are way too many feral dogs & cats here in Thailand and they need to do something about it sooner rather than later - End of !!!

11 hours ago, Thunglom said:

Culling has been shown not to work.

Not if it is maintained ................LOL

Obviously the Thai police have never heard of or consider in any way "Unstable, Overloading or Insecure Loads" and the government have the cheek to say they want high class tourists with endangerment of the roads like this meaning nothing as far as anyone in authority is concerned.

21 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

“I was delivering colored dye and paint from Samut Sakorn to Ban Bueng when a pickup truck in front of me immediately changed lanes without any warning".

You weren't tail-gating or travelling too fast for the load you were transporting by any chance????

50 minutes ago, Denim said:

Well, certainly managed to create a stink since his arrival.

Unpleasant Odor please ..................LOL

10 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

City health officials will be sent to two hotels in Bangkok’s Bang Rak district to collect specimens for testing from staff who were in close contact with the American businessman from Spain, who was identified to be Thailand’s first case of Omicron variant infection, Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang said today (Wednesday).

They should also be sent to collect specimens from the two Thai ladies who have returned from Nigeria plus anyone they have been in contact with, this is not restricted to foreigners .........

26 minutes ago, webfact said:

Thailand’s six-party opposition bloc has issued a joint statement outlining the government’s failures during the past three years under the leadership of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.

This has to be false news, they haven't had time to put that kind of list ..............LOL

Witnesses to the accident reportedly told Phan Thong police that one of the two motorbike riders might have been driving the wrong way on the road.

All to familiar occurrence in Thailand people riding the wrong way.