Getting tough: Bangkok governor says time is up for soi dogs

[bergan]

Just now, lvr181 said:

Get rid of them? Really?

One moment they worship them and now a backflip!

 

 

Read the article again. They're not getting rid of them, they're moving them up country so it's not their problem anymore. Bangkokians already consider people up country to have the same social standing as dogs, so why not?

[dallen52]

5 hours ago, from the home of CC said:

8000 dogs under one roof, please make it WAY upcountry.

Going to need more than one 8000 animal processing facility. 

There's 22 on my soi you can collect now.

[digger70]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Governor Pol Gen Aswin Kwanmuang assured the public that dogs would not be killed - they would be looked after. 

So who's going to look after Millions of soi dogs? For how long? Then let them go and it starts all over again. 

There's only One way to fix the problem and this ain't It everyone knows that. It's just a lot of Bullshit talk and nothing is going to Reduce the soi dog population if they don't exterminate them. Shit Why Bother Nothing is going to be done.

[toenail]

Thais who think they’re doing “good merit” by feeding the neighborhood soi dog food scraps need to realize ( be educated) that it is also their responsibility to take these “neighborhood pets” to the vet. 

[dallen52]

So what happened to the 340 baht registration fee for all dogs and cats...

 

U sure that there isn't a waiting oriental market for these sanitized and vaccinated products?

[lvr181]

5 minutes ago, bergan said:

Read the article again. They're not getting rid of them, they're moving them up country so it's not their problem anymore. Bangkokians already consider people up country to have the same social standing as dogs, so why not?

Oh...okay. Then how about getting rid (moving or despatching or transporting etc.) them out of Bangkok? 

[tifino]

For a moment there one hopes to read of a top honcho saying "the buck stops with me' 

 

alas twas not to be... 

 

 - yet another one 'passing the bark' 

[NoshowJones]

5 hours ago, from the home of CC said:

8000 dogs under one roof, please make it WAY upcountry.

HOI! I live way up country.????

[Jonmarleesco]

We shall see. But about time Thais realised that dogs need to be controlled.

[lvr181]

6 minutes ago, digger70 said:

So who's going to look after Millions of soi dogs? For how long? Then let them go and it starts all over again. 

There's only One way to fix the problem and this ain't It everyone knows that. It's just a lot of Bullshit talk and nothing is going to Reduce the soi dog population if they don't exterminate them. Shit Why Bother Nothing is going to be done.

And was it the current Governor or his predecessor who said they were going to fix Bangkok's traffic problems within 30 days? ???? 

 

The ongoing usual gum flapping of authority!

[NoshowJones]

5 hours ago, 1337markus said:

all talk no action.

24 hour crackdown required.

[dallen52]

4 hours ago, dotpoom said:

It's not just stray dogs, the dogs that have owners can be as troublesome, in fact in my experience....even worse....when one approaches their "territory". The owners in many cases ( if around) appear like they couldn't care less if they ripped you apart.

22 on my soi. 

And that's just the 3 houses facing me.

Without the loose rabble that come on the sniff at nighttime. 

 

Why not ship the dogs and owners up country?

They have similar mentality and attack instincts.

[digger70]

1 minute ago, lvr181 said:

And was it the current Governor or his predecessor who said they were going to fix Bangkok's traffic problems within 30 days? ???? 

 

The ongoing usual gum flapping of authority!

And No more Floods. 

[NoshowJones]

3 hours ago, Juan B Tong said:

Please, please don't kill them!  They may come back as cops.

or as immigration officials.

[xylophone]

10 minutes ago, toenail said:

Thais who think they’re doing “good merit” by feeding the neighborhood soi dog food scraps need to realize ( be educated)

Now that's an even bigger task...………….!!

[KiChakayan]

5 hours ago, brucegoniners said:

I’ve met many, many more bad people than bad dogs.

How many times did you get bitten by humans?

[manchega]

Don't they usually just give these things to temples so the monks can keep to their vows, its probably morally corrupt as well, but keeps them off the street

[xylophone]

43 minutes ago, Grusa said:

But according to the Thai, they are all somebodies' mothers-in-law.....

All the more reason to cull them...…………????

[Thingamabob]

5 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

This is what it takes... Get rid of them all in one fell swoop.... 

 

... of course, no harm will come to the dogs, thats just un-Buddhist....  until out of sight out of mind, of course... but by then it will be too late. 

 

There will be arguments of inhumane treatment, but they are animals not humans, they are pests, they bite... this will be better in the long term. It is unfortunate that a 'cull' has become necessary but a history of inaction has left this legacy... 

What makes you think that human beings are more important than animals ? 

[lvr181]

2 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

What makes you think that human beings are more important than animals ? 

Because we have the ability to read and talk about it? We are the "top dogs". 

[androokery]

10 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

What makes you think that human beings are more important than animals ? 

They are to me.

[Media1]

Dinner for the poor. But...

[owl sees all]

3 minutes ago, Media1 said:

Dinner for the poor. But...

Just what I was thinking Media1. Let the restaurants in Isaan return to dog steak kebabs and spicy dog stew; sorted! 

 

Since the dog wagons have stopped the dog numbers have been uncontrollable.

 

Just knee-jerking all the time. Let nature take its natural course.

[connda]

He's going to round them up and give them an nice home. 
And then the one's still on the street reproduce; and,

He's going to round them up and give them an nice home. 
And then the one's still on the street reproduce; and,

He's going to round them up and give them an nice home. 
And then the one's still on the street reproduce; and,
Guess where this model breaks down?  Kudos - best of luck.

[steve73]

25 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

Just what I was thinking Media1. Let the restaurants in Isaan return to dog steak kebabs and spicy dog stew; sorted! 

 

Since the dog wagons have stopped the dog numbers have been uncontrollable.

 

Just knee-jerking all the time. Let nature take its natural course.

"Let nature take its natural course"

Might be more effective to cull the idiots feeding them.... and it would keep poster "androokery" happy.

[sawadee1947]

Kill them all

[thaiguzzi]

6 hours ago, usacb500biker said:

Feed the Dogs to the Crocs ....... What a Show

And you'd watch?

Or even pay to watch hey Sicko?

[fakename]

This idea is never going to get off the ground. Not only expensive, but is there a dog pound anywhere in the world that could hold hundreds of thousands of dogs? As with all the other great ideas here, this will only work for two days, then they will come up with another idea, then another!

[bubba]

17 hours ago, iforget said:

Plain stupidity yet again. There are an estimated 640,000 street dogs in Bangkok. Lock up 8,000 and all you are doing is donating extra food (garbage) to the remaining 560,000.

Well fed dogs breed faster than starving dogs.

Bangkok govt would do better to sort out the garbage stinking up the streets of Bangkok.

This would help to control population growth of street dogs, feral cats and rats.

But for population reduction, sterilisation and vaccination take time but they are the ONLY effective remedy. Anything else is a pointless waste of effort, manpower and funds.

As for impounding the dogs, has no one learned any lessons from earlier this year when 3,000+ dogs were dumped in a pound in Nakhon Phanom?

In a matter of weeks around 2,300 were dead from starvation, disease and injuries in fights. This is humane?

No. It's not.

Even if you loathe street dogs, you have to understand that kneejerk slaughter/impounding WILL NOT WORK.

In a matter of days, weeks or months strays will be back on your street. They'll just be different strays.

Tell the Bangkok authorities to be patient and put serious effort behind sterilsation and vaccination.

Seriously? So where are the resources and what would the timetable be for spaying/neutering 640,000 dogs?

 

Let's just say there were resources for spaying/neutering 100 dogs/day, which is quite a large number requiring many full-time vets as well as facilities together with systems to track and presumably transport the dogs back to where they came from. That would require more than 17 years to complete and during that time, more would be born each day than could be spay/neutered.

What a a ridiculous suggestion.

[gerritkaew]

Best news in years !!

 

 I hope people who lives in villages can also catsh them and bring them to a shelter, daed or alive..