Lawmakers are proposing law to stop pet abandonment, prevent disease spreading

By Thai PBS

 

 

Lawmakers are now proposing an amendment to the Animal Cruelty Prevention and Welfares of Animals Act that will require pet owners to register their dogs and cats, and implanted with microchips as part of the effort to preven pet abandonment, and spread of deadly disease.

 

Failure to abide by the law, pet owners will be penalised. The amendment was in line with the current spread of rabies with dogs and cats becoming potential disease carriers. Over 30 provinces were reported to have rabies infection cases now.

 

Under the amendment, pet owners in Bangkok will be required to register their pets with the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration while those living in the provinces will register at local administrative offices.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/lawmakers-proposing-law-stop-pet-abandonment-prevent-disease-spreading/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-03-14

All this time spent of catching strays, checking them for rabies and vaccinating them BUT no one thought about sterilization?

 

I mean, they went through the trouble of catching them, might as well perform a quick snip-snip. That would reduce the spread of strays and cost less in the long run in feeding them/taking care of them.

You can make all the laws you want but with a police force to lazy and incompetent to enforce the law its just a paper tiger.

crazy idea of an amendment of law as it will just  let the idiots let loose their unwanted pets on the streets not caring if they are taken to an inhumane government shelter or not as no one will enforce it or chase up the owners.

 

you get the feeling this whole rabies exageration of a few hundred dogs was another intimidation story to press through this crazy amendment to satisfy the control freaks in power

 

 

11 minutes ago, robblok said:

You can make all the laws you want but with a police force to lazy and incompetent to enforce the law its just a paper tiger.

29 minutes ago, Thian said:

the only ones that should be put down are these control freaks in power issuing crazy laws and amendments without the mandate of the population.

Seriously have the  "Lawmakers" got nothing better to do?

30 minutes ago, humbug said:

crazy idea of an amendment of law as it will just  let the idiots let loose their unwanted pets on the streets not caring if they are taken to an inhumane government shelter or not as no one will enforce it or chase up the owners.

 

you get the feeling this whole rabies exageration of a few hundred dogs was another intimidation story to press through this crazy amendment to satisfy the control freaks in power

 

 

This has been going on for as long as I remember....when the dog reaches 3 months old it is no longer na rak so gets abandoned to run wild and bark all night.

That requirement for pet registration/chip implantation was already first introduced a decade ago or so... and was thoroughly ignored by pet owners, thus eventually quietly swept under the carpet; a bit like the helmet law, really, and pretty much every other law that "inconveniences" the public. And now they want to attempt it again? Good luck. Unless fines are handed out left and right, nothing is going to change in pet owners' attitudes. 

 

can not get riders of motorcycles to put new globes in their tail lights , how are you going to get them to spend the money on a chip,

an exercise in that will result in more strays,

firstly remove all the strays and keep removing them, once on death row in each village the owners either come and claim pay the money for the chip or the animal is put down if no adoption can be found,  

Irresponsibility should then be addressed and monetary penalty applied

16 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

This has been going on for as long as I remember....when the dog reaches 3 months old it is no longer na rak so gets abandoned to run wild and bark all night.

But Thais  love  dogs  right??

This is another waste of time thing that will never see the light of day, and if it does it will be totally ignored by the population at large and also the police / law enforcement people as its impossible and impractical to enforce...  such as how they will prove a cat in the street belongs to a certain person!!!!

 

 

6 minutes ago, kannot said:

But Thais  love  dogs  right??

Only a mother could love this!

 

Just now, PatOngo said:

Only a mother could love this!

 

And the dog lovers will still go out and throw food down for it... then get mad when the real kind hearted people suggest the suffering poor creature should  put to sleep!!!!  It is clear to see which people really cared about the dogs, and it's not the anti cull ones.

Does this spell the beginning of the end of the soi dog - meaning those community-'owned' dogs that live their whole lives on the street but still get looked after by various people? Presumably they mainly originate as abandoned dogs.

Pity if they disappeared - they are a quaint part of Thai culture.

Given the abject indifference to the law exemplified by the average somchai, I have no great expectations of any success for this latest of many brain farts.

17 hours ago, CharlesSwann said:

Does this spell the beginning of the end of the soi dog - meaning those community-'owned' dogs that live their whole lives on the street but still get looked after by various people? Presumably they mainly originate as abandoned dogs.

Pity if they disappeared - they are a quaint part of Thai culture.

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I have been voluntarily microchipping my dogs in Thailand for the past 12 years. The idea is that if one was lost and found or was stolen and had to prove ownership, I could prove the dog was mine.

 

Trouble is not only the cost of the chips and registration for owners, which will deter most, but also the cost of the wand required to read the chip in the dog and then keep a database to check it. I asked a couple of dog rescue places locally if they checked for microchips in pedigree stray dogs they rescued and I got a blank stare. They didn't have the equipment to do so. Do you think all the local administrations in thailand are going to buy and use the necessary equipment if this becomes law?

17 hours ago, CharlesSwann said:

Does this spell the beginning of the end of the soi dog - meaning those community-'owned' dogs that live their whole lives on the street but still get looked after by various people? Presumably they mainly originate as abandoned dogs.

Pity if they disappeared - they are a quaint part of Thai culture.

The last paragraph of your post absolutely disgusts me, even more than the filth, noise and accidents these dogs cause.

My ex g/f's father died as a result of a rabid dog bite in Roi Et, which seems to be  a problem province for rabies. Maybe you should witness the death of someone suffering from Hydrophobia. My g/f recovered from the trauma, but it was clear to me her mother still bears the mental scars of her husband's death.

The only way this will ever get any weight behind it , is if there are mass infections of tourists that effect tourist numbers.

18 hours ago, kannot said:

But Thais  love  dogs  right??

Depends on the sauce that comes with it.

"Besides, all pets must undergo a microchip implantation, so they can be traceable, and their owners can be identified in case they abandon their pets."

 

Somebody needs to advise those feeding the soi dogs that they'll be classed as the pet owners!  You can guess the result of that - SFA action taken; the soi dogs will outnumber the population in about 10 years, if not sooner.

 

"Pet owners are encouraged to have their animals vaccinated to prevent them from being infected with the virus.

As for stray dogs and cats, local officials will transfer them to sanctuaries if they are found and taking care of them for 15 days pending delivery to their owners."

 

And what will they do with the dogs and cats that don't have owners?  Answer as above - <deleted>!

 

 

18 hours ago, PatOngo said:

This has been going on for as long as I remember....when the dog reaches 3 months old it is no longer na rak so gets abandoned to run wild and bark all night.

Exactly, i know loads of thai families who dumped their dog somewhere before it was 1 year old.

 

And the ones who keep it stuff it in a cage where it barks all day long.

 

But they all love their dogs sooooo much...

Finally a law I agree with, there are way too many stray dogs & cats around but I am a little sceptical, what happens to all the animals without chips inside them? and I don't mean "French Fries"

18 hours ago, CharlesSwann said:

Does this spell the beginning of the end of the soi dog - meaning those community-'owned' dogs that live their whole lives on the street but still get looked after by various people? Presumably they mainly originate as abandoned dogs.

Pity if they disappeared - they are a quaint part of Thai culture.

They are the sad and lonely ghosts of people that have no shame, no heart and no sense of responsibility. Dogs need affection, love and care, they feel just as much as we do, loneliness, love, etc. deciding to get a dog is a commitment for many years to come and the simple and small minds that can‘t grasp the concept of taking care for an animal should not be allowed to have  one. Chipping and vaccinating should be obligatory as well as parasite and worm control. They thai government made all this obligatory for foreign dogs entering the country,  but fails to have its own citizens follow these easy rules of dog keeping. Obviously this doesn’t apply to everybody, since I know many people who have also dedicated their lives to being good pet owners,  but the majority still doesn’t seem to be educated enough to understand. 

Great I reckon people should have a licence to have a dog. Seen so many dumped in temples really sad for the dog

 

specially the old one that have lived with the owner for

long time 

 

i reckon people that dump their dogs and leave Thailand should be black listed 

 

as allot of these pedigree dogs also get heart broken and normal just wait to die and get his by a car or bite someone 

19 hours ago, robblok said:

You can make all the laws you want but with a police force to lazy and incompetent to enforce the law its just a paper tiger.

Yes but something seems to have motivated them to confiscate dart boards and require them to be registered. Insane,

If memory serves, mad cows disease seriously damaged meat export markets..... I imagine the same would hold true for rabies.

 

They made a similar rule a few years ago and, of course, nothing happened. The same nothing will happen this time.

They just don't get it do they, for this issue they need. 

 

Education not laws. 

 

These sort of laws create the leverage for the corrupt to profit.