Pathum Thani Dogs Poisoned and Shot Dead

I was in Kanchanaburi was actually shocked how wild the dogs are.

We could literally not walk back to our hotel, but there were groups of dogs just going wild. We had to get escorted in the back of pick up to our hotel gates.

They are problematic in India too, after government decreed you couldn't touch them. Crazy

On 5/12/2026 at 10:24 AM, Brettoj said:

Obviously the dogs become a problem for someone. What else are they to do?

If the dogs injured a child who lives nearby, most people wouldn't blame a parent for rural justice. We really can't moralize on the killings without knowing much more.

18 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

My wife had a dog when she was a child and it was poisoned by eating a rat in the field which the farmers poisoned. That's at least the story she told and seems plausible.

That same thing happened to our cat, if it was up to me I wouldn't have bought a cat in the first place.

19 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

My wife had a dog when she was a child and it was poisoned by eating a rat in the field which the farmers poisoned. That's at least the story she told and seems plausible.

I just got back from my next door neighbors with whom I discussed the possibility you raised that dogs might be being poisoned inadvertently by a farmer who put rat poison out to kill rats, and that the dogs might have scavenged a poisoned rat and been inadvertently poisoned in turn. The reason your theory intrigued me is because I knew that at least two of the dogs that died were world class scavengers.

Just to pass this info along, and not at all intending to refute what your wife said, but the three women who I discussed this with all said this was unlikely, at least in our area. They claimed that almost everyone used traps rather than bait, and pointed out that almost no one would want to use bait, because field rats are often valued and hunted for food. Last month, when I was investigating the death of my dog, several other people said the same thing.

I realize that what may or may not be being done in my village doesn't necessarily mean no one is using bait to kill field rats elsewhere in Thailand, but, sadly, I'm still adhering to the belief that most of these poisonings are intentional rather than inadvertent.

3 hours ago, Gecko123 said:

I just got back from my next door neighbors with whom I discussed the possibility you raised that dogs might be being poisoned inadvertently by a farmer who put rat poison out to kill rats, and that the dogs might have scavenged a poisoned rat and been inadvertently poisoned in turn. The reason your theory intrigued me is because I knew that at least two of the dogs that died were world class scavengers.

Just to pass this info along, and not at all intending to refute what your wife said, but the three women who I discussed this with all said this was unlikely, at least in our area. They claimed that almost everyone used traps rather than bait, and pointed out that almost no one would want to use bait, because field rats are often valued and hunted for food. Last month, when I was investigating the death of my dog, several other people said the same thing.

I realize that what may or may not be being done in my village doesn't necessarily mean no one is using bait to kill field rats elsewhere in Thailand, but, sadly, I'm still adhering to the belief that most of these poisonings are intentional rather than inadvertent.

Interesting thanks for sharing. Yeah we'll never know what happened and that was over 20 years ago now. You simply shouldn't let your dog roam around or leave it outside barking and possibly upsetting people.