Pattaya city is continuing to solve street dog problems, at least according to prominent city officials like one of the deputy mayors. 

 

The current plan is essentially for street dogs to be brought to a temporary shelter before being released back to where they live in local communities after training, vaccination, and sterilization.

 

Pattaya City Mayor Manot Nongyai told The Pattaya News in an update, “We have been doing the current project of returning dogs back to their homes (the street, beach, etc. where they were found) after sterilization for three years now. This project was hugely successful before and had been reducing the population of dogs over time in a safe and humane manner while allowing the dogs to live in their natural environments as long as they were not aggressive or caused problems.”

 

“However, now we admit that we have had some problems after the Covid -19 pandemic. Many dogs were abandoned on the street by people who lost their jobs and returned to their home provinces or even countries. These dogs were not sterilized and many became pregnant, leading to more street dogs being born. Over the past roughly twenty months of the pandemic we now have a whole new generation of young dogs that are living on the streets of Pattaya and have grown up entirely in this environment and the population of dogs has increased in some areas. 

 

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6 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

live in their natural environments as long as they were not aggressive or caused problems.”

another idiot.   these dogs are pests,  they fight, bite kids and elderly,  they carry diseases.

can't these people understand that    !!     

7 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Pattaya city is continuing to solve street dog problems,

It's solving nothing.  The soi dog population is increasing exponentially adding to the annual road deaths and disease spread. Near me is Soi Dog <deleted> where fifty piles a day are strewn about yet one owner has put up a sign asking people not to tip rubbish!  He's blind to the real problem.

Contact Smith & Wesson I'm sure they have a solution

For public health and safety humane destruction has to be the way forward.

This topic has been recycled on this forum in one form or another for years. There are two camps - those who support the poor, downtrodden soi dogs and those who would gladly see them gone. As an avid cyclist I would not miss them in the least. They are a daily threat and if I'm bitten, I understand the shots are 8-10k baht.

 

I have words I can't post here for those who feed these beasts. If you feed them endlessly, they will reproduce endlessly. Stop feeding them, they'll move on to somewhere else. Life is tough, often cruel, but if it prevents children's faces from being bitten off or being killed, that is the lesser of two tough decisions.

7 minutes ago, The Fugitive said:

For public health and safety humane destruction has to be the way forward.

This is an unpopular sentiment for many, but all civilized countries manage them this way.

Nature has a way of balancing things.  Soi dogs are why you don't see that many feral felines (of the four legged variety) in Patters.

40 minutes ago, Gsxrnz said:

Nature has a way of balancing things.  Soi dogs are why you don't see that many feral felines (of the four legged variety) in Patters.

Oh how I wish this were true, we have a multitude of feral cats wandering about destroying all the bike seats & tires and defecating all over the place. 

There is not enough strychnine in Thailand

Everybody gather round....come to look. This is what cynophobia looks like.

 

One dog bites; so it follows to them that we must kill them all.

 

In order to diagnose cynophobia, a doctor would evaluate your behaviour and emotional responses concerning dogs. Symptoms of phobias may include any of the following:

Sweating

Trembling

Difficulty breathing

Rapid heartbeat

Nausea

Dizziness

A feeling of danger

Fear of losing control

A fear of dying

A sense of things being unreal

Excessive avoidance or anxiety‌

If you regularly have any of these symptoms in relation to dogs, you may want to talk to your doctor or a licensed therapist about it.

3 hours ago, Gsxrnz said:

Nature has a way of balancing things.  Soi dogs are why you don't see that many feral felines (of the four legged variety) in Patters.

Feral cats are rare in all countries. They are not an issue in any country.

8 minutes ago, Bruno123 said:

Everybody gather round....come to look. This is what cynophobia looks like.

 

One dog bites; so it follows to them that we must kill them all.

 

In order to diagnose cynophobia, a doctor would evaluate your behaviour and emotional responses concerning dogs. Symptoms of phobias may include any of the following:

Sweating

Trembling

Difficulty breathing

Rapid heartbeat

Nausea

Dizziness

A feeling of danger

Fear of losing control

A fear of dying

A sense of things being unreal

Excessive avoidance or anxiety‌

If you regularly have any of these symptoms in relation to dogs, you may want to talk to your doctor or a licensed therapist about it.

One dog bites, tears the face of a child but ALL dogs can do the same so all dogs should be feared as they are dirty, dangerous and disease ridden....

3 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:

This is an unpopular sentiment for many, but all civilized countries manage them this way.

Because reason trumps sentiment..Hopefully.

32 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Feral cats are rare in all countries. They are not an issue in any country.

Wern't they an issue a little while ago in Australia where the authorities dropped industrial quantities of poisoned sausage meat from aircraft?

42 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

One dog bites, tears the face of a child but ALL dogs can do the same so all dogs should be feared as they are dirty, dangerous and disease ridden....

 

Wow...even from you; that's a doozy!

 

By your reasoning, the 40 year old who broke into his neighbour's house in order to hug the neighbour's 12 year old is all of us??

We are all the same??!! Oh no! I don't want to be a sex pest!

So one can adjudged guilty for what someone else did, even if they are on the other side of the country and not related to you in any way?? Tell me it isn't so??!!

 

1 hour ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Feral cats are rare in all countries. They are not an issue in any country.

Feral cats are a MASSIVE problem in Australia. That would be one country.

I interviewed the "Chief Dogcatcher" (or City Veterinarian), Mr. Suraphong Wongsutthawart, in 2016, and then again in 2018.

 

I referred to other tourist places in Thailand, where they seem to be attacking this problem more forcefully. I asked him if the authorities could not do anything about the problem, how about hiring private firms? He advised against that.

 

He told me that people who start feeding dogs are legally considered their owners and are responsible for taking care of the dogs.

 

Strangely, when I called the office last week, based on a problem in my soi, some veterinarian told me that this is not the case. I guess I'll have to follow up on that...

 

Reading material (for Scandinavians... or users of Google Translate):

 

https://www.thailandstidende.com/component/k2/item/2870-si-fra-om-loshundene

 

https://www.thailandstidende.com/component/k2/item/3625-stadig-flere-loshunder-i-byen

Yea, too many dogs in pattaya. Bangkok is ok. I really don’t want to encounter wild dogs when I hangout in pattaya.

8 minutes ago, kevin612 said:

Yea, too many dogs in pattaya. Bangkok is ok. I really don’t want to encounter wild dogs when I hangout in pattaya.

Bangkok is not ok ......  there are thousands of these diseased mutts walking every soi.  Put them all to sleep permanently for god sake.  

6 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

The current plan is essentially for street dogs to be brought to a temporary shelter before being released back to where they live in local communities after training, vaccination, and sterilization.

That's not a plan, A Plan is something  to put in Action to Fix the problem.

Get some Dog Catchers , Round them up  IF no one claims them (for a Fee) Exterminate them after 2 weeks . That's what they do in Australia ..

No Soi dogs there.

With respect to dog lovers and Vegans, round them all up and export them to Vietnam!!

2 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Feral cats are rare in all countries. They are not an issue in any country.

What ?! Tell that to the native animal population in my home country of Australia 

More dogs than tourists!

 

Nothing screams third world louder than packs of feral dogs. This is one area thought the army would get a handle on but they’ve made it worse. 

7 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

The current plan is essentially for street dogs to be brought to a temporary shelter before being released back to where they live in local communities after training

Training the wild dog population is about the most hair-brained scheme i have yet heard from these idiots

7 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

We have been doing the current project of returning dogs back to their homes (the street, beach, etc. where they were found) after sterilization for three years now.

Returning the mutts back to the street and beach? Well done. I’m sure that’ll fix it. The multibillionaire tourists that Thailand endeavours to woo will look forward to it. 

I endorse "steven 100:" comments 

Kill the bleedin lot of them possibly starting with the one that's appeared out of the blue in my small Soi but as usual some muppet neighbours think it's a good idea to feed it, despite the row it makes in the early hours ????????????

6 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

Oh how I wish this were true, we have a multitude of feral cats wandering about destroying all the bike seats & tires and defecating all over the place. 

You need more soi dogs.

3 hours ago, Bruno123 said:

Everybody gather round....come to look. This is what cynophobia looks like.

 

One dog bites; so it follows to them that we must kill them all.

 

In order to diagnose cynophobia, a doctor would evaluate your behaviour and emotional responses concerning dogs. Symptoms of phobias may include any of the following:

Sweating

Trembling

Difficulty breathing

Rapid heartbeat

Nausea

Dizziness

A feeling of danger

Fear of losing control

A fear of dying

A sense of things being unreal

Excessive avoidance or anxiety‌

If you regularly have any of these symptoms in relation to dogs, you may want to talk to your doctor or a licensed therapist about it.

You obviously don't ride a pushbike around Pattaya.