fredwiggy

Actually what I've shown everyone here is the opposite of being a narcissist, so you might want to look up what makes one. No pets are valueless. They are part of the family and bring joy, loyalty and protection of humans and their property. They do have to be trained not to attack others. Dogs and especially cats, which are natural born killers unless they are shown love to other animals, will attack other animals. They are territorial and will protect what they think is theirs. A dog or cat can learn to not attack when a puppy or kitten, if they are allowed around other types of animals. If they aren't they will attack anything that comes into their territory, mainly to protect their owners and property. If they are spayed or neutered, they will be less aggressive, and they should be anyway unless you want babies from them. Cats kill more animals than anything else if they are allowed to do so. Cats that are raised in homes with birds and lizards, guinea pigs or rats and snakes, will not attack. Left in the wild, all animals that are meat eaters will kill anything they can catch. Just like humans. Pets are a mirror of their owners. if you love your pets, they will be a lot less likely to attack anyone or anything. Just having dogs or cats and letting them run loose has them acting like animals. A good dog will protect its territory from intruders, but you can teach them that neighbors are okay by allowing them to interact. Dogs have good memories, and remember who did them harm. Look at how dogs go to one person and not near others. They can sense who's a hurtful person.

Any exercise is better than none. Some are better than others.

Okay, I exaggerated a little but it does happen, and more and more with time, and we aren't seeing all of those that are happening. Thailand is a small country but crime here is not small, especially with intentional homicides which rival the US. Give it time. You'll see crime here over time increasing.

Exactly. Walking is one of the best exercises to stay healthy, along with changing your diet, but weights build muscle, and the more muscle you carry, the more your body burns calories. You protect your joints, as long as you don't lift too heavy. The only thing that comes close is swimming for all body tone.

Many go into gyms not realizing the work that's involved in changing your physique. The fact is, you don't have to be a bodybuilder to get the positives from going to a gym. What you need is a trainer that will stay with you until you learn what you have to do. Some will train a person a few times then let them loose, and many forget what they're supposed to do, get sore and quit, not realizing that sore means success, and aren't doing the most important thing which is changing their lifestyle, starting with a healthier diet. You can train like a bodybuilder and get great results, even if you have no intention to compete. Most do quit for those reasons, as motivation is hard to change if you've spent a life being a couch potato. Will power has to be found, as diet is the most important facet.

Lately I've been smoking Wikipedia.............https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Thailand.

Most got for a chance at improving health, strength, fitness and self esteem. Most don't do what they need to attain this.

Westerners go to work also, and to gyms before and afterwards. Most Thais cannot afford gyms.

Yes, spend a little money and build pedestrian overpasses. End of pedestrian accidents if the people use them.

And no paying compensation in lieu of a jail sentence. A civil judgement should come after the jail term, so the family who is left behind, especially without a breadwinner, can survive.

Education and being taught respect for life is first. Second is extreme punishment if you drive through a pedestrian zone and kill someone. When others see a 10 year mandatory jail sentence with no possibility of leniency, others think that could be them and slow the hell down around people.

I thought you knew all about me from your statements, like Malcy. Again, so write this down. I visited Thailand, I stayed in a hotel where my eventual wife worked. We dated, traveled, fell in love. I came back, married her, had a child, moved here to be with them, found out she was nuts, divorced her, will move back as soon as I can re -establish back home. In retrospect, it was a life changing deal going to Bueng Kan first, but since my daughter was born, it was worth the insanity I went through.

There is a thing called the internet where you can learn anything about the world. Books can teach you a lot, and researching is at your fingertips these days which makes looking up anything faster. Thai violence didn't just start the last two decades.

They weren't written in Thai. World history is available to anyone who likes history. I also listened to Thais in the US who were born and lived here much of their lives.

People who frequent gyms are those that think enough of themselves to take care of themselves, which in turn takes care of those you provide for, as a healthier body means a healthier outlook on life and care for others. if you love yourself first, only then can you love others.

Why would I read Thai books when western books are decades ahead of thinking here?

Malcolm, I've said this before. You have no wives, or children, so your comments about them mean nothing, as you have no life experience in a family besides the idiocy you were taught by your parents and grandfather, which you have shown here a number of times. I had custody of my children until they left the house at 19. That means I was available to them every day of those years, unlike my wife and girlfriend who lost custody to me because they weren't parent material. I'm light years more aware of what constitutes a family and life itself, than you're shallow, teen aged thinking.

Missing from what? My children in the US are adults, with families and careers. Thailand is also a land of almost daily mass shootings.

Like I said, some people will eat anything, including domestic animals. They also drain lakes and net them out here, leaving nothing for the population like western countries do with conservation. There aren't any deer here besides those in protected provincial parks, besides those poached. Again, no conservation and selfish behavior only thinking of themselves. The respect for life itself here pales by comparison to the west, as can be seen how they treat women and children.

Again, people that kill domestic animals that aren't attacking humans are those with mental issues. A chicken can be replaced. A dog can be restrained if it's known to attack chickens, which many well treated dogs will do if they aren't raised around chickens and know them as part of the family unit. This isn't a dog with no home but an owned dog, and again, this man threatened humans. That isn't normal behavior if your chickens are being attacked by your dog. A normal human, raised to respect life and others, will negotiate a deal with the person who lost the chickens, as they don't cost much and are yes, food , and not a family pet.

Are being trained, neglected and or abused, so they have no respect for humans and will attack.

Many are growing up with no fathers in the household, or ones that don't teach their children respect for life. Bullies come from bullies. One upmanships are different. Normal competition in a household comes from jealousy that is normal growing up, kids thinking their parents love the other more. This happens all over the world but more in places where fathers aren't available and aren't held accountable for children they make. Children join gangs because they don't have a good dad to teach them how to relate to others without violence or control. They look up to other children who are bigger or tougher and mirror their behavior. Children grow up here too fast because of these missing dads, and you can see what happens in the daily news, how they attack others 5-10 against one, using weapons and kicking while down. No respect for life.

I live 30 kilos from the nearest city. A lot of the dogs here that I feed, that come to my house , live on other's farms and houses. That story said it killed his chickens, and after he killed it, he went and threatened the dog's owners. That's going way too far, as it again could have been settled amicably. My story is a little different. Someone, likely a family member or someone who hates my ex's family, has been poisoning dogs and cats for many years, before I even moved here. Many dogs here that have owners run loose all over, as they don't really care much about animals after they're past kitten and puppy stage. They don't give them shots, train them or even feed them properly. I do know that if you killed someone's dog, one that runs loose all the time, with your car, they're the first to ask for compensation, as I've heard this happen before.

I haven't seen it happen but know it did in Texas where I lived. Dogs on other's ranches. Dogs, even pets, do chase down deer, often with negative results all over. I was hunting myself, a couple of miles from any roads or houses, and saw 4 running through the woods, a German Shepherd, and three smaller dogs, likely chasing deer as a group.Coyotes cause much more damage to deer and livestock, so they're hunted all year long in many states.

I haven't seen or heard about from anyone I know here that they're eaten here, although I have heard that some do, from others who have lived here. I have seen most everything else eaten here.