Elephant dies under scorching sun in Trang

By The Nation

 

An elephant fell and died while hauling logs under the scorching sun in Trang’s Huay Yot district on Saturday.

 

Suchart Buakeard, the head of the elephant raisers in Trang, said the animal, which was 35 years old and weighed about 4,300 kilograms, collapsed and died while hauling rubber-tree logs in Ban Tha Maprang village in Tambon Huay Yot.

 

The owner, Somkid Kaewsawat, 56, said the elephant staggered and had shaky legs before it collapsed and died 20 minutes later. Somkid said he had raised the elephant for 10 years

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30339112

 

 

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Well it sounded like you also mistreated this poor creature.  Elephants are not on earth to serve Man Shame on you 

3 hours ago, realenglish1 said:

Well it sounded like you also mistreated this poor creature.  Elephants are not on earth to serve Man Shame on you 

There are hundrets of years, horses, bulls, elephants etc serves farmers.....

In my youth Horses were quite commonly used , the Milkman, the Coalman and the Brewery all used horses. They were used,not misused and treated as valuable assets, I would be surprised if a Thai Mahout treated his main scource of income any differently .

16 hours ago, ujayujay said:

There are hundrets of years, horses, bulls, elephants etc serves farmers.....

Just because there are hundreds of years of use does not make it right

Greed ....  Karma, will bite that owner in the RASE...

its slavery for animals should be a crime to use animals in any such way

 

if a human died working hard under the scorching sun for his paymaster it would be called  abuse. No different for the animal

Working an elephant to death for lumber in the hot sun really is douchebag worthy. They need to be sanctioned in some form or another...pretty bad really.