Why do farang feed soi dogs?

[yardrunner]

2 hours ago, marquis22 said:

A farang I have heard about feeds them choc coated raisins, not sure why, but he says they love them. 

perhaps because he knows that chocolate is poisonous to dogs

[Bangkok Barry]

It would be interesting to know how the massive number of soi dogs began. People abandon dogs in every country (some even leave babies in the street too, and for the same reason - they can't cope). But why so many in Thailand?

 

As for feeding them, many Thais do so. It certainly isn't only farangs. You'll see them hanging around the food stands hoping for (and getting) a handout. There even used to be a dog on Soi Cowboy that would tap people on the back of the leg if you were buying something, hoping you'd buy an extra one for him. I label that as cute and harmless, certainly not aggressive. And it is Thais who put t-shirts on the dogs when winter sets in and the temperature falls at night.

 

Mostly they are perfectly harmless if left alone. If you are aggressive against them then they might react in the same way as a person would, and take issue with you.

Edited November 13, 2017 by Bangkok Barry

[MyFriend You]

16 hours ago, Rc2702 said:

Better to feed something with leftover grub than let it rot.

Anyone that reads my posts knows I am no fan of Soi Dogs, and would like all the unhealthy ones rounded up and taken care of (permanently)  - but I have no problems feeding them my left over food.  Usually give it to the gate guards and they feed them, dogs in my new neighborhood don't bother me.

[MyFriend You]

4 hours ago, sharktooth said:

Would that include scattering sugar on their floor to keep the ants happy?

I don't kill cockroaches, they pick up after me and the big ones eat the little ones to keep the population down.

[MyFriend You]

2 hours ago, csabo said:

I live alone at the end of a private soi with a one other house tucked in back. I have seen a brown timid dog near that home and assumed they were the owner. Out on the main soi there are a dozen or so soi dogs but this one is too timid to tangle with them and ventures onto the soi occasionally but jumps back into the wooded area to avoid almost everything. He leaves me and my dogs alone and I do the same. The problem is the old French lady who lives further down the main soi with 2 dogs of her own. She comes all the way to my private soi drives down and puts out plastic bags of food and tins of water out for the brown dog often with chicken bones. The plastic bags blow all over and make a mess and the tins are always full of mosquito larva. My wife told her to buzz off one day. She kept coming back and I finally told her if she wants the dog or to take care of the dog do it near her house.  She adamantly refused and couldn't understand what my "problem was". I told her I was tired of cleaning up after her and the dog and my dogs sniffing around rotting leftovers with bones etc. She refused. So I took my dogs down on the public main soi in front of her house for a walk and she went ballistic. "You cannot walk your dogs here blah blah blah". The hypocrisy was astounding. I'm moving in 2 weeks so not going to escalate it but to answer the OP. People, especially some animal lovers, don't give a crap about other people. If you want to take care of a soi dog take it home (like I did) if not, leave it alone. You are either prolonging the inevitable or disturbing your neighbors. 

Farang Soi Dog Wars................mind boggling

[observer90210]

Maybe the chap feeding them, is a smart ass and has put animal contraception in the food ?

[MyFriend You]

45 minutes ago, dave moir said:

Chocolate and raisins both bad for dogs

Now we know why he feeds the dogs chocolate covered raisins  -  he's slowly killing them off, and it will look like a natural death.   Good for Him.

Edited November 13, 2017 by TunnelRat69

[robsamui]

D'you know - I've been living here in Thailand for 22 years now and I still have mixed feeling about this subject - I really can't sort them out.

 

When I first came here, living in BKK, I was filled with surprise and pity - there were nice little doggies all over the place, seemingly not belonging to anyone - sleeping on heaps of sand on construction sites, in doorways, sometimes asleep in the middle of the street.

 

Then I found myself getting chased on my motorbike, with snarling dogs snapping at my feet and ankles. The I noticed I was being woken at night by a bellowing, shrieking, howling chorus that rose and fell, every hour, all night long. Then I saw how many of these nice little doggies were disease-ridden with festering, running sores. Then I noticed how most Thai people seemed to ignore them totally, as if they didn't exist, even those who were crippled and had been badly injured by vehicles.

 

22 years later and living on Koh Samui I've reached the following conclusions. Firstly, to react to the Thai way of life with Western thinking, attitudes and assumptions is a mistake in all respects, and that includes dogs.

 

In the west dogs are either working dogs or household pets. Stray dogs are rounded up and impounded. You need a licence for a dog. If you neglect your dog, you will have trouble with the law. Dogs are valued. Dogs are individuals. They are well-fed and loved, given healthcare and medical care. They are trained to be obedient and follow commands. They live indoors and are taken out under control, on a lead. And then we come to Thailand with all this in our heads and see Thai dogs.

 

I've never seen a Thai attempting to train a dog. The only times I've seen a dog on a lead were rare pedigree breeds. All the other dogs here spend their time outdoors - it's a tropical climate. Thais - and Thai society - have a totally different attitude towards dogs. There are many who have dogs as pets. But the vast majority of dogs in Thailand are soi dogs. They belong to nobody, live on the street, and only have allegiance to people who feed them regularly. Once they find a regular source of food they make camp. If that goes away they move on again. It's a fact of Thai life. 

 

On the one hand I can't now understand what all the fuss is about about dogs - I've been here too long and soi dogs just seem normal to me - I have no desire to take care of the "poor little unloved things" or airfreight a couple back home - this is my home now. I'll just as cheerfully chuck a rock at an aggressive one as I will give a friendly pat to a nice waggy one.

 

But also I'm saddened that Thais on the whole have such a low regard for them, their health and well-being and their part in Thai life. 

 

Somewhere between the seeming outrage of many westerners and the apparent indifference of the Thais, I'd like to see some kind of middle road. But this is the way things are here, and I've learned to live with it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 13, 2017 by robsamui

[HooHaa]

3 hours ago, MickGC said:

Should never feed a dog chocolate

http://kb.rspca.org.au/why-is-chocolate-toxic-to-dogs-and-other-pets_476.html

i suspect that was rather the point.
 

raisins even more so than chocolate.

 

our friend finds poisoning animals amusing

 

Edited November 13, 2017 by HooHaa

[jak2002003]

48 minutes ago, seancbk said:

Does that include killing christians?

I hope so... how about throwing Christians into a big pit with a few rabid street dogs... and seeing if their god will save them or the dogs?

 

 

[isitworthit]

Better to feed something that appropriates a kind jester 

Than waist it on someone that does not know the meaning of kindness 

Or treating there fellow man with respect 

[Jools]

Rama IX thought enough of a Soi dog to adopt one. His sense of compassion is good enough for me.

[isitworthit]

36 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

It would be interesting to know how the massive number of soi dogs began. People abandon dogs in every country (some even leave babies in the street too, and for the same reason - they can't cope). But why so many in Thailand?

 

As for feeding them, many Thais do so. It certainly isn't only farangs. You'll see them hanging around the food stands hoping for (and getting) a handout. There even used to be a dog on Soi Cowboy that would tap people on the back of the leg if you were buying something, hoping you'd buy an extra one for him. I label that as cute and harmless, certainly not aggressive. And it is Thais who put t-shirts on the dogs when winter sets in and the temperature falls at night.

 

Mostly they are perfectly harmless if left alone. If you are aggressive against them then they might react in the same way as a person would, and take issue with you.

True but better to spread the Hate for Farangs 

Than admit a Thai feeds them too 

Its not about the dogs its the hate that is the issue 

[HooHaa]

8 minutes ago, isitworthit said:

Better to feed something that appropriates a kind jester 

Than waist it on someone that does not know the meaning of kindness 

Or treating there fellow man with respect 

well said, despite the fact that its completely incomprehensible.

[EcigAmateur]

Some of us know that animals are worth 100000 better than any human being.

 

 

[Cranky]

Went down the 711 last week and fed the dogs some nice steak, with a few Viagra inside.  Hysterical results, expecting a few puppies soon.

[isitworthit]

4 minutes ago, EcigAmateur said:

Some of us know that animals are worth 100000 better than any human being.

 

 

Wow spead it 

[isitworthit]

6 minutes ago, EcigAmateur said:

Some of us know that animals are worth 100000 better than any human being.

 

 

Wow spread it

[jak2002003]

7 minutes ago, EcigAmateur said:

Some of us know that animals are worth 100000 better than any human being.

 

 

Some of us have no social skills, have personality disorders that prevent them communicating and understand other human beings, or are just anti social and freaks.  These are the kinds of people that mostly feed packs of street dogs, and become animal hoarders living in filthy stinking conditions with neglected animals.

 

These people tend not to socialise with humans, instead having the animals as their 'friends' as the animals are totally dependant on them and make them feel important, when in fact they are social misfits with a negative impact on society.

 

They spend most of their time sitting alone in their filthy houses covered in animal filth and parasites, living a very sad and pathetic life... and in need of psychological help.  

 

And, if they have any family, even their own children, they think a stinky aggressive wild dog is worth 100000 times more than their own children!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 13, 2017 by jak2002003

[steven2018]

Those who have hate do not know the (dogs) suffering.

 

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[Stevemercer]

It is interesting visiting Cambodia. There are no soi dogs at all. The only dogs one sees on the streets are the very old, infirm or sick. I wonder why this is?

[yellowboat]

4 hours ago, thaipo7 said:

I feel sorry for starving and mistreated animals.  While a GI here 47 years ago they was this mangy German Shepard and I fed it and it grew a beautiful coat of hair.  Spent  years here than and was so sorry to have to leave it to starve and then die.  47 years later and I will still feed a soi dog.  They did nothing wrong to wind up like they are. 

47 years and what has changed ?  Thailand is taking the scenic route to development. 

[MickGC]

25 minutes ago, jak2002003 said:

Some of us have no social skills, have personality disorders that prevent them communicating and understand other human beings, or are just anti social and freaks.  These are the kinds of people that mostly feed packs of street dogs, and become animal hoarders living in filthy stinking conditions with neglected animals.

 

These people tend not to socialise with humans, instead having the animals as their 'friends' as the animals are totally dependant on them and make them feel important, when in fact they are social misfits with a negative impact on society.

 

They spend most of their time sitting alone in their filthy houses covered in animal filth and parasites, living a very sad and pathetic life... and in need of psychological help.  

 

And, if they have any family, even their own children, they think a stinky aggressive wild dog is worth 100000 times more than their own children!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Take a deep breath and relax mate. Not everyone who feeds soi dogs ends up the situation you describe. I feed them myself and my bungalow is quite clean and I have a lot of human friends.

[Ron19]

Because they are  hungry and they are domesticated animals - man's best friend. It is not their fault their dirt-bag owners deserted them. I have had some great pets that I rescued from the street.

I have one and you couldn't wish for a more placid and better friend.

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[nasanews]

Because they are dogs too otherwise they won't get drunk then feel sorry for dirty animals.

[janpharma]

10 hours ago, Ulysses G. said:

Because they are  hungry and they are domesticated animals - man's best friend. It is not their fault their dirt-bag owners deserted them. I have had some great pets that I rescued from the street.

In our village farang feed them and had them sterilised...they became great friends...

[seancbk]

1 hour ago, Stevemercer said:

It is interesting visiting Cambodia. There are no soi dogs at all. The only dogs one sees on the streets are the very old, infirm or sick. I wonder why this is?

 

Old, infirm and sick dogs don't taste as good.

 

[Denim]

10 hours ago, Ulysses G. said:

Because they are  hungry and they are domesticated animals - man's best friend. It is not their fault their dirt-bag owners deserted them. I have had some great pets that I rescued from the street.

 

Sorry to disagree but a man's best friend is his angle grinder. Dogs come second.

[oldlakey]

2 hours ago, EcigAmateur said:

Some of us know that animals are worth 100000 better than any human being.

 

 

I hope you are not basing that comment on any involvement in human trafficking 

[oldlakey]

2 hours ago, steven2018 said:

Those who have hate do not know the (dogs) suffering.

 

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If they are a Buddhist, there is always next time for a bit of first paw experience