SPECIAL REPORT: Soi Dog’s position on rabies offensive and dangerous dogs 

By The Phuket News

 

John Dalley, Founder, Soi Dog Foundation. Photo: Soi Dog Foundation / file
 

PHUKET: As the island’s animal welfare officials struggle to cope with rolling out a mass rabies vaccination campaign and the rounding up of any dangerous dogs on the island, they are enlisting the help and support of Phuket’s renowned Soi Dog Foundation. Here, John Dalley, Founder of the Soi Dog Foundation, gives his appraisal of situation:
 

We had a meeting earlier this month with the Governor and the new acting head of Livestock (Manat Thepparat, Acting Chief of the Phuket Provincial office of the Department of Livestock Development – DLD), who impresses me a lot.

 

This was before the rabies case, or the attack in Phang Nga province, and the governor requested us and DLD to work together regarding stray dogs on the island and come back with a proposal, taking into account no budget to speak of to care for the pound.

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/special-report-soi-dog-position-on-rabies-offensive-and-dangerous-dogs-70255.php#dPWM9YMdjj3Gt1Z7.97

 

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Soi Dog Foundation is clearly doing a wonderful job keeping this problem at bay but I get the impression from the article that they want John Dalley to fix the problem and pay for it all.

Do they not realise that knowing Phuket has rabid dogs will scare tourists away faster than these dogs can run.

You wait and see after the first Chinese get bitten by a rabies dog..then...Have a great day evryone..:-)

The Soi Dog Foundation is indeed doing a great job in Thailand. I wonder if the legislation that was recently passed in the UK could ever be implemented in Thailand. 

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ban-of-third-party-sales-of-puppies-and-kittens-known-as-lucys-law-confirmed

33 minutes ago, DuiDui48 said:

You wait and see after the first Chinese get bitten by a rabies dog..then...Have a great day evryone..:-)

Considering the dietary preferences of the  mainland Chinese, I expect that it is the soi dogs who are at risk.

great and be tough and clean em up before catastrophe.

Thais only understand the word catastrophe and not the word before ????

Pretty stupid Idea Mass Rabies Vaccinations. They never get All the stray mutts done and will they do the follow up vaccination year after year? The strays are still going to attack people ,Rabies or not that should be stopped  ain't going to work . One and and sure way ,Exterminate all the stray mutts. 100% Safe.

Considering the dietary preferences of the  mainland Chinese, I expect that it is the soi dogs who are at risk.

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2 hours ago, digger70 said:

Pretty stupid Idea Mass Rabies Vaccinations. They never get All the stray mutts done and will they do the follow up vaccination year after year? The strays are still going to attack people ,Rabies or not that should be stopped  ain't going to work . One and and sure way ,Exterminate all the stray mutts. 100% Safe.

 

"Pretty stupid Idea Mass Rabies Vaccinations." - a press release, photo op, and vaccinating a few dogs, isn't "mass rabies vaccination."  It's just a small show, put on to put the tourist's minds at ease.  

 

As another member mentioned, it will take a tourist to be bitten, and to contract rabies, and then for it to be reported in the media back in their home country, before anything serious will be done about it. 

 

They are reactive here, not proactive, and that's because they see proactive as a waste of money. 

 

They are too short sighted to see the loss of revenue from the inevitable.   

No problem until TAT come out and declare rabies free island

17 hours ago, Felt 35 said:

No problem until TAT come out and declare rabies free island

 

And then they will argue that the infected tourist must have had rabies prior to entering Thailand.  ????

Dead dogs do not breed, spread rabies  attack adults or kill kids. All soi dogs need to be culled, they are still pests even if steralised.