Cats & Dogs die by hundreds in disease-infested Bangkok shelter: Rights group

[snoop1130]

Cats & Dogs die by hundreds in disease-infested Bangkok shelter: Rights group

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

Puppies being treated in December after taken out of the Prawet shelter. Photo: Watchdog Thailand / Courtesy

 

BANGKOK — Stuffed inside small cages, they stare and whimper at visitors or lie helplessly still. In every group of big dogs and adult cats, or small puppies and kittens, some are collapsed on the ground, short of breath or even dead.

 

It’s these scenes inside a City Hall animal shelter in Bangkok’s Prawet district that have motivated a network of animal rights organizations to push for an end to what they call “strays’ hell,” claiming that about seven-in-10 of the hundreds of dogs and cats rounded up across the capital have died of various diseases contracted there.

 

Full Story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/bangkok/2018/12/27/cats-dogs-die-by-hundreds-in-disease-infested-bangkok-shelter-rights-group/

 

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[fruitman]

But but Thai love their dogs and cats sooooo much!

 

And they even get money from abroad to take care of them, what a shame.!

 

 

[Prairieboy]

Would it not be more compassionate to euthanize the strays instead of slowly starving them to death in small cages?

[tagalong]

There seems no end, to Thai cruelty of the street dog... 

That is the reason I cannot, will not and can't, leave my 2 small adorable dogs when I go back to OZ later in new year, regardless of expense..

I see ribbed dogs walking around the village because they are only given rice to live on....Cruelty in the extreme...

 

[Borzandy]

11 hours ago, fruitman said:

But but Thai love their dogs and cats sooooo much!

 

And they even get money from abroad to take care of them, what a shame.!

 

 

Thais are pride to take money from abroad.

[unamazedloso]

i want to see all these soi dog lovers join the dogs and live and defecate on the streets, wait for hand outs, etc and ill gladly run them down or give them a kick on the way in to 7/11. 

This dog situation is stupidity beyond belief.

[ReMarKable]

Thais are not mature enough to own a pet and take care of it.

[johng]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

network of animal rights organizations to push for an end to what they call “strays’ hell,”

Their solution being to let the animals roam around the streets like they did before ????

 

The solution is simple the animals have been caught, now humanely put them to sleep.

 

Any animal roaming the street without its "owner"  (regardless if it has a collar on or not)

should be caught and put in a pound...if the owner doesn't come to claim it in a month then  put it to sleep..to get the pet out of the pound the "owner" should  be required to neuter, vaccinate and chip the animal and pay a fine for letting it roam before its released.

[Henrik Andersen]

Shame on you Thailand 

That's why I always say better kill them when caught on streets and sois 

[300sd]

Animal shelters are good things for stray animals, if run properly. It's the people (and I use that term lightly here) who are hired by the municipality to run this sham of a shelter. They are the problem, the scum in this story.  

[digger70]

6 hours ago, Prairieboy said:

Would it not be more compassionate to euthanize the strays instead of slowly starving them to death in small cages?

Of course it would ,But this is Thailand one can't kill an animal,but is't ok to let them suffer in pain and let them die a miserable death. it does not make any sense to western people.but hey like this it's a start but  it's going to take some time to get the numbers  of soi dogs/cats down.

[MyFriend You]

23 hours ago, fruitman said:

But but Thai love their dogs and cats sooooo much!

 

And they even get money from abroad to take care of them, what a shame.!

 

 

True, I saw a big plastic container in Taipei airport Thai Airways section labeled Soi Dog Foundation last week, it was full of all kinds of money - wonder how many of these are around the world, and how much of it really gets back to Thailand??

Edited December 28, 2018 by TunnelRat69

[fruitman]

22 minutes ago, TunnelRat69 said:

True, I saw a big plastic container in Taipei airport Thai Airways section labeled Soi Dog Foundation last week, it was full of all kinds of money - wonder how many of these are around the world, and how much of it really gets back to Thailand??

Sure it's true, why would i lie about that?

 

In Holland there were advertisings on national tv almost daily last year to help soidogs all over the world, also in thailand. But they collect the money digitally i guess, that's how we do things these days.

 

We are very worried about dogs not having a good life and people like to donate for that. If they read this news in Holland (they won't publish that around christmas i guess) the Thai will loose face as much as they can...In Holland we can and will call the police if we see a dog having a bad life and there is even a special animal policeforce who sure will act..

 

The Thai treat their dogs very bad, even the ones in good rich families around me...they buy a nice european dog but never ever walk it, the labrador from my neighbours never has been out of their small garden..today it was barking for hours because they left him alone all day (which they do every day), hope he got food and water, i don't know.

 

 

[ronrat]

The main island on Fiji sorted this problem out years ago. They gave daily warnings in the paper and radio for a month that any stray dogs on the main road would be shot by the Army. So on the designated day for that district pet owners were advised to either tie up or house the dogs. The dead animals were dumped at sea in lobster nurseries and where sharks lived.

 

I have a small poodle that is walked twice a day, taken to the vet regularly, and clipped every few months. Next door we have a Husky that is locked up in the yard probably 10 by 10 meters , and the owners are their maybe a few hours a day as it is an office for a Indian Tourist company. It is never walked and prone to excessive barking which is a sign of boredom.

[balo]

They should all go to sleep for good. Much better than animal cruelty. 

 

[MyFriend You]

16 hours ago, ronrat said:

The main island on Fiji sorted this problem out years ago. They gave daily warnings in the paper and radio for a month that any stray dogs on the main road would be shot by the Army. So on the designated day for that district pet owners were advised to either tie up or house the dogs. The dead animals were dumped at sea in lobster nurseries and where sharks lived.

 

I have a small poodle that is walked twice a day, taken to the vet regularly, and clipped every few months. Next door we have a Husky that is locked up in the yard probably 10 by 10 meters , and the owners are their maybe a few hours a day as it is an office for a Indian Tourist company. It is never walked and prone to excessive barking which is a sign of boredom.

I was stationed innThailand for almost four years back in the Seventies, we didn't have soi dog problems, the Thai Army just shot them, and the American Military Police (Army & Air Force) did as well on the bases.  There was nothing the locals could do about it then  -  it was a Military dictatorship and they did it to prevent disease.  I worked with sixteen Thai's and one had a contract with the Thai Army to give him all the dead dogs, he used them as bait in his crab and fish traps......in hindsight, had they shot 50% and neutered and spayed the rest we wouldn't have this problem in Thailand...........but there may be a couple hundred thousand animals running around Thailand now with no one taking care of them, the Humane thing to do is to put them to sleep with comfortable music playing in the background........then incinerate them.     Bravo for Holland, but that is a small country right, and rich, they can afford it - Thailand can barely take car of its old people under the palsy Social Security system they have, never mind Dogs.   Peace Brother/Sister but thats the reality !!!!!   A song from the sixties says "In the year 8510, God is gonna shake his Mighty Head, maybe he'll look around himself and say, maybe its time for the judgement day"

 

We have to do better.