Bangkok to halt roundups, take new approach to stray animals

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

Sick animals packed into cages at a government animal shelter in December at Bangkok's Prawet district. Photo: Watchdog Thailand / Courtesy

 

BANGKOK — Bangkok’s governor on Tuesday promised new policies to address stray animals in the capital, signaling an end to transporting them to shelters where thousands have died.

 

Acknowledging that its public animal shelters lack the space to accommodate all strays, Gov. Aswin Kwanmuang said local administors have been asked to work with private animal organizations to regularly vaccinate and sterilize the animals instead of shipping them off to the city’s sole shelter in Prawet district.

 

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"Gov. Aswin Kwanmuang said local administors have been asked to work with private animal organizations to regularly vaccinate and sterilize the animals instead of shipping them off to the city’s sole shelter in Prawet district."

 

I'm sure that's not the same process as milk - I don't think many animals would survive:

Sterilized milk is homogenized milk heated to 300 degrees for several seconds.

source:  https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/What-Deal-Sterilized-Milk-88779

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Just start registering ALL DOGS AND CATS....tatoo a number in their ear or implant a chip so they can't get dumped anymore....

 

Also open a place where people can exchange pets when they're tired of it.

 

And promote doggie walking services, i know many dogs (from rich Thai) who never get walked..they sit in a bench or small garden all day.

1 hour ago, fruitman said:

Just start registering ALL DOGS AND CATS....tatoo a number in their ear or implant a chip so they can't get dumped anymore.

Spot on 

3 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

to regularly vaccinate and sterilize the animals

Great solution to resolve the problem of having so many unwanted dogs around the streets, etc.  However, it would seem that somebody did not put their brain in gear first unless the reporter is the culprit.  Why is it necessary to vaccinate and sterilise the same animals all the time?  Just curious.

 

'nuf sed

Edited January 8, 20197 yr by wotsdermatter

The present system (after the various rabies cases), of shipping dogs away seems, in my opinion, to be working.

There's is noticeably less dogs around ????

Where are you?

 

4 hours ago, MichaelJohn said:

The present system (after the various rabies cases), of shipping dogs away seems, in my opinion, to be working.

There's is noticeably less dogs around ????

Not around our village, there are more mutts running wild then one year ago at least twice as many.  ????  

Employ government Agents and start to Exterminate  all the Soi dogs .   

 

Maybe we have to wait till someone gets Really angry  again and start poisoning the mutts like a few years ago,,, It worked Real good.

Edited January 9, 20197 yr by digger70

Neutering male dogs is easy and cheap, but ineffective.  Miss just one male and he will be running around happily impregnating any female he can find.  They must spay the female dogs, a more difficult, expensive and time-consuming procedure. 

 

Sterilizing females, extermination or just living with the problem are the only choices.

19 hours ago, fruitman said:

Just start registering ALL DOGS AND CATS....tatoo a number in their ear or implant a chip so they can't get dumped anymore....

Listen , if you think the Thai Police will go check the ear or neck of a potentially rabid stray dog when they cannot even be bothered to stop the carnage on the road I think your barking so to speak ! 

Ship the dogs to the Philippines, they like dogs.

Geezer

I have about 20 at the top of my soi regularly engaging in doggy orgies.no one gives a toss.no one will ever give a toss.

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"...He expects the administration will be able to process 600 dogs and cats per week..."

 

"...dog population, which Aswin conservatively estimated to be 150,000..."

 

Hmmm, just doing the dogs, without any new births, would take 5 years to spay and/or neuter the population.  I would estimate that there are probably more than 600 births a week so it is a futile effort.  Mass euthanasia is the only viable solution!