MrPhysio

For everyone's safety, tourist and thai, plus improve the water quality, all the Soi dogs need to be removed. It is officially recognised that the dogs are diseased, flea and worm ridden, which causes them to become irritable and dangerous. Their waste is washed into drains and out to sea or the reservoirs. Tourists are chased off pavements onto the road in front of traffic, or packs of dogs run at people. Howls, barking and fights throughout the night and early mornings. Those feeding and watering the dogs are making the problem worse. The excuse for not desexing or culling these animals is that it goes against the Buddha teachings. Yet people who abandon the animals when moving house or when the animal is sick and vet bills cannot be paid, are causing the animal harm in much bigger anti Buddha ways. All dogs should be licensed, immunised, and tagged with identification and owners fined. And before that occurs, clean up the problem. Driving North it is common to see the dog road kill. Do not use Buddha as an excuse - the problem is out of control. Too many dog attacks occur. For instance, there are many aggressive dogs around Pratumnak, including around the new Fishermans Village, Police Station near Big Buddha, the bus parking area, and most side Soi. It is time for Pattaya City to once again deal with the problem as they had to do once before in Pratumnak. Urgently. Please.

Interesting set of answers. The ‘article’ is a sponsored advertisement from Cigna. An advertisement is not going to cover the negatives compared to the positives. Bottom lines: 1. Know your pre-existing conditions and expect an interpretation that the condition will bar you from a payout, no matter how insignificant. 2. You already know your age. If over 70, there is very little hope for you to obtain a policy worth the premium or risk of refused payouts. 3. If you have the money for a very expensive policy, you may as well self insure, by putting aside a chunk of income for unforeseen illness treatment. 4. The bigger the hospital bill the harder an insurer/underwriter will try to find a way not to pay. 5. Insurers get you to list major pre-existing conditions, because they tag your conditions to a long list of other risks you do not know about and then you have claims refused. 6. Failure to disclose a risk will be used against you, even if you did not realise that minimal or trivial risk could be tagged to other problems. 7. People are warned about under insuring, but there is no way to fully insure for all eventualities, even if you could afford it. 8. And once you declare anything, it is on your record for life and will be used to deny your claim. 9. If you still wish to insure, check websites for your intended insurer which show listed difficulties people have when claiming, along with long approval delays. There are websites that independently rate and list claims problems along with the poor behaviour of some companies. Note: some companies provide false testimonials on their websites, to balance or counter the real complaints. Other insurers are known scammers with small offices and registered in very dodgy locations. Do your research and try not to get caught - including by the bigger companies where there are well documented scandals associated with illegal or questionable claim denials.

If you wish to quote compromised sources, that is up to you. My sources, in my understanding and constant reviews, indicate that the majority of news agency reports are compromised and one way or another use incorrect data. Hamas falsifies death figures repeatedly claiming their dead fighters to be children or women, identifying Gazan deaths as caused by the IDF instead of by their executions or human shield deaths. Who began the war(s), who initiated the October 13 2023 deaths, who blew up buses full of Israeli and Arab children, who killed a dozen Druze children by a rocket into a playground, who commits war crimes by placing explosives under houses, schools and hospitals, who teaches children in UNWRA schools to hate and wish to kill Israeli’s, who supplies the children with suicide belts????????

Hmmm. Many posters in this thread should define hatred by looking in the mirror. It would be good if people checked and identified known propaganda sources before commenting. Al Jezzera is not a credible news agency - with previously identified ‘journalists’ involved in terror activities, including October 13 2023. The Palestinian Authority has frequently supplied proven bogus death figures quoted by the UN, where much later the UN has revised down the exaggerated numbers. The UN agencies such as UNWRA members have been identified colluding/assisting Hamas terrorists. The UN has admitted that it stopped the distribution of aid supplies into Gaza, despite Israel supplying many aid trucks. The majority of photographs of starving children are fake, unverified, yet displayed by terrorist sympathiser media and those complicit with blood libel tactics. Please try to separate fact from fiction by suspending the hate fostered in you by manipulators of the truth. Jordan does not want those falsely calling themselves ‘palestinians’ as this group is known as trouble makers across the Arab world, especially Jordanians and Egyptians who took them in the past. The ‘palestinians’ have consistently refused every proposed two state solution. They openly call for a one state solution by taking over Israel and killing the population including the 20% of Israeli Arab population as they want a world caliphate that the terrorists only want for their brand of Islam, and that excludes all non muslims and muslims not of the terrorist persuasion. If you do not believe me, look it all up to self verify, but not from the terrorist supporting sources.

Declaration: I have been bitten by a dog on my leg near the Big Buddha facility and required expensive Rabies vaccine plus wound dressings. It does not stop there. I live in Pratamnak Hill zone where every Soi, bus parking area, vacant lot has a pack of dogs that bark and howl all hours of the day and night. These packs run at tourists and residents alike, including women with babies in pushers, forcing people to panic and run onto the road. I have had dogs run at me barking, growling, and getting the pack to join in. This is happening all around the new Fishing Village complex, and the management of my accommodation state that the City refuses to do anything to stop and or remove the animals. People from other areas come on scooters with food and water for the dogs and the fishing village lets the animals hang around in their large carpark. I am not talking about one or two pests, but close to 30 animals on 3 streets where they guard their territories. I see people with bandaged calf muscles, the dog bite favourite target snack. I hope those feeding the dogs come here and take the pest dangerous animals to their own homes instead of aggravating the existing problem here for the rest of us. Instead, they smirk and continue to encourage the problem in someone else's neighbourhood. I implore the local government department to shift the animals or cull them, as a warning. And to fine people feeding the animals, because the dogs breed, increase the problem for everyone via attacks, disease spread, and noise pollution. And the usual dog lover responses to comments like mine will be ignored as part of the problem, unless the dog lovers come here and rehouse these animals somewhere else. Note: I recently travelled North and saw many dogs dead on roads hit by cars. The dogs in my neighbourhood run onto the streets and that has cars, trucks, and buses using their horns at all hours of the day and night to shift dogs off the road. So, lovers, come here and rescue your favoured animal before it gets hit, bites someone, or forces someone to run in front of a car. Authorities and businesses in the area, do something to address the problem.

Two stages here. 1. Avoid being bitten. Use insect repellant and clothing to cover exposed areas. 2. If bitten THEN use Ivermectin. If you expect to be in areas where sandfly bites could be possible, then thinking ahead is a good idea. The Ivermectin needs to be more preplanned if travelling as an after bite precaution and the insect spray/lotion as a preventative. People can be bitten despite having insecticide if you have been in water, sweating, wiping presprayed skin via clothing etc or missing skin during application. Best to be prepared, especially if you know you are an insect magnet.

No, I would not go on a suborbital flight for 11 minutes, even if free. The recent flight was a stunt for feminism, but failed. As one poster mentioned the phallic shape for the feminists to travel into sub orbit tended to lessen the triumph for feminism. The best comment I saw was in a Sky News Australia interview by Rita Panahi with a female commentator describing the the transport rocket from Bezos as an “oestrogen enema”. Enough said.

Took a bit of scrolling before the above answer showed up. Insurance companies find every possible exit route possible if a claim is made, including pre-existing conditions. And as above - age above 70 years adds a nightmare. As a health professional I kept up all the health checks and monitoring - asking questions of medico’s as preventative maintenance. Doing so creates a medical history that is searchable by insurers who are able to wriggle out of paying even by a simple mention. Plus- they ‘value add’ conditions and although one condition may be covered they deny stating that having that condition means you are prone other conditions by extension and they deny coverage. Posters do not know if this gentleman knew ahead of time that he could be caught out - there are obviously elements we do not know about. But if on ventilation, there is a risk of multi- system failures, especially if high pressure ventilation is used. Kidney failure is one such example. Then, transporting someone to the UK because hugely expensive if he cannot be unplugged from the machinery.

It is not unusual to see male public urinals visible from an open entrance by whomever walks past, including females heading to their toilet area. Everything on display - therefore this is more about the hygiene aspect and odour than the visuals.

Be careful out there. Rosuvastatin is not Tadalafil (Cialis). Rosuvastatin is for cholesterol reduction - as per the name, it is a statin. High blood pressure (Hypertension) and poor circulation can create the need for Cialis/Viagra medication. If you take a statin, it works very differently. But Statins can cause bad muscle pain in some people. People should be very cautious about taking medications after advice from well-meaning people, but it is a significant risk. People with hypotension (low blood pressure) or positionally caused problems when standing up (orthostatic hypotension) can be badly affected by Cialis and Viagra-like medications, just as statins can cause problems. Russian Roulette (apology to the Russki's) is mixing different medications on top of a health condition. I am a retired health professional, but I advise readers to get a medical opinion - even if you have had previous experience of medication but have not had a health check recently - we change as we age. Stay safe.

Correction: Australia & New Zealand travel on the Left side of the Road, the same as Thailand. The US & Canada use the opposite - Right side. Getting it wrong causes death very quickly.

A great deal of information is supplied here by helpful posters. The amount of contradiction may be less than helpful. I would happily meet and talk with you if you are in Pattaya: zero cost, no strings. My training is as a health professional, but I am retired and have no intention of working in Thailand. That does not mean I have retired my wish to assist other humans simply by having a chat. Respond by replying here.

Some time ago, I remember reading where residents in a condo were complaining about another resident waking around in a state of undress, knocking on other residents doors late at night. And they could not get anyone to help them stop the harassment. Is this the same place and undressed individual? As to the comment about carrying a knife (or whisk), added to the comments about Australian nationality plus the observation of the offending part indicating Jewishness. I am wondering if the knife was used for self circumcision or he was knocking on doors for someone to provide a swap for the whisk? But, for clarity, men of a certain age from Australian parents are likely to have been circumcised regardless of religion - that is as it was accepted back then.

It's funny that the example above from a similar story describes housekeeping sending a male member to sort out the problem with another male 'member'.