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Thai Rath reporters went to a housing estate in the north east of Thailand after a pack of five dogs owned by a neighbor savaged a little girl yesterday.

 

Khanitha Sukchoke, or Nam Wan aged 4, had been allowed by doctors to go home to her house in Song Chan sub-district.

 

She had multiple wounds to her legs and back. It could have been much worse but a boy intervened with a stick to stop the worst of it.

 

The child's aunty, Deuan, said that Nam Wan was playing where she always did when the Thai breed dogs attacked and she ran out of the house hearing the commotion.

 

She said that in the past her husband, Nam Wan's grandmother and Nam Wan herself had been bitten by the neighbor's dogs but it was not serious.

 

They just required rabies shots.

 

This time the little girl and the rest of the estate had been left terrified of going out.

 

They want the dogs locked up or taken away entirely. 

 

Noi, 53, the owner said she kept six Thai and mixed breed dogs and didn't lock them up.

 

She said they were usually mild mannered though she admitted they had bitten the neighbors before.

 

She was prepared to pay for everything - she considered the little girl a relative.

 

And if the authorities decide to take the dogs away she would agree for the sake of everyone concerned. 

 

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There are many Thais that have dogs and take good care of them, and keep them under control.  But there are a lot that don't.  If I could be PM for a day - i would buy and equip 100 pickups as mini surgeries and higher 100 vets and handlers.  There only job would be to role around the country sterilizing every stray (or left loose) dog they come across.  If they wont take care of them, at least don't allow them to procreate. 

5 minutes ago, MSMU1993 said:

There are many Thais that have dogs and take good care of them, and keep them under control.  But there are a lot that don't.  If I could be PM for a day - i would buy and equip 100 pickups as mini surgeries and higher 100 vets and handlers.  There only job would be to role around the country sterilizing every stray (or left loose) dog they come across.  If they wont take care of them, at least don't allow them to procreate. 

Six pets in a house is just too many.....when the word 'pack' can be used, one can expect pack behaviour. 

1 minute ago, jacko45k said:

Six pets in a house is just too many.....when the word 'pack' can be used, one can expect pack behaviour. 

Not sure why my post needed to be quoted for that comment....

1 minute ago, MSMU1993 said:

Not sure why my post needed to be quoted for that comment....

It is the only one that could be!

 

And again we read about a Child savaged by Dogs that are not under control.

The Dogs have previously bitten Neighbours, so would never be considered to be " harmless "

The Dogs need removing from the Womans custody, and taken away to be euthanized, and the Owner fined at least 100,000 Baht plus all medical Expresses, which would also constitute Plastic Surgery to try and repair the Damage inflicted on this Child by Her dogs.

The madness and psychology of Thailand when it comes to dogs .

Thailand and dogs  =  stupidity   

I had a neighbour who insisted on keeping about half a dozen of these half bread dogs left to roam around in a high end moo baan, one in particular looked like a cross with one of them ridge backs and this was definitely Ting Tong Im not frightened of dogs but if you went for a walk this one would always come running out behind you I did tell the owner to keep that thing tied up, It seems like lots of other owners complained to the management nobody could go for a walk with their own dogs even without a dog you could not walk past that house without them come running out, Even if you wanted to walk to the shops you had no choice to walk past that house as it was the second one in past the security gate,

I think he got a warning from the management not long after that dog disappeared 

I wonder if anyone else notices the similarities between this article and the similar article about a Thai woman boxer attacking a man? 

5 hours ago, pixelaoffy said:

The madness and psychology of Thailand when it comes to dogs .

It's the owners that should be taken away. They want their dogs to run free in the hope that somebody else will feed them.

28 minutes ago, billsmart said:

I wonder if anyone else notices the similarities between this article and the similar article about a Thai woman boxer attacking a man? 

not very smart are you,

state:  It could have been mush worst (really) they mean she was lucky someone came to help. Now the little girl will have a fear of dogs and undergo 5 rabies shots apart from having painful dog bites 

32 minutes ago, meatboy said:

I wonder if anyone else notices the similarities between this article and the similar article about a Thai woman boxer attacking a man? 

not very smart are you,

I guess meatboy hasn't seen the surveillance camera video of this incident... ????

Shame they couldn't get the word PitBull into the heading or this would have been a 15 pager by now ????.

The dogs are lucky it was not me who intervened. They would have been already dead or at least needing to be put down.

1 hour ago, vandeventer said:

It's the owners that should be taken away. They want their dogs to run free in the hope that somebody else will feed them.

You have a point: here, everybody agrees something needss to be done about attacking sogs, but when it's a boorish male that attacks a woman, then some even sympathize with the piece of sxxt

7 hours ago, MSMU1993 said:

There are many Thais that have dogs and take good care of them, and keep them under control.  But there are a lot that don't.  If I could be PM for a day - i would buy and equip 100 pickups as mini surgeries and higher 100 vets and handlers.  There only job would be to role around the country sterilizing every stray (or left loose) dog they come across.  If they wont take care of them, at least don't allow them to procreate. 

This is what the Saved Souls Foundation is trying to do. Get a mobile neutering surgery set up. The problem? We can't find a vet willing to operate in open air conditions. But we are trying. 

7 hours ago, webfact said:

And if the authorities decide to take the dogs away she would agree for the sake of everyone concerned. 

For the sake of everyone, but only if the authorities tell her too?

In Boston MA USA  if dog bites someone have to quarantene for 10 day to check it doesn't have rabies but isusually given a warning. If bites again they will take away and put to sleep. These dogs have been given their 1 bite time to get rid of  since they now are a pack and have no fear of attacking/killing a human.

 

13 minutes ago, Giving it a Go said:

This is what the Saved Souls Foundation is trying to do. Get a mobile neutering surgery set up. The problem? We can't find a vet willing to operate in open air conditions. But we are trying. 

If I recall I read years ago where a guy in BKK (I think a veterinarian) went around using a blow-dart gun and was administrating rabies vaccines to the stray dogs.

The poor little girl must be traumatised the very least the owner can do is to have the dogs put down and to offer the child compensation for the suffering that she has incured. 

7 hours ago, webfact said:

They just required rabies shots.

Big problem with these Thai dog lovers.

 

They don't bother getting vaccines for there dogs. 

 

Rabies vaccine should be mandatory.

Poor girl.

 

 

Just endorses the mentality even more. Poor little girl gets bitten by dogs that have bitten before. People that have gotten bitten gets rabies vaccine, so that makes everything ok. 
But since the dogs have attacked the little girl.  They want the dogs taken away now. These dogs should have been taken away a long time ago.  
Dog’s owner says dogs are good dogs . But they have bitten in the past.  How ignorant is that.

If the poor little girl was injured fatally.  Probably would  say dogs are good.  Get a wai.  And maybe a few hundred baht damages. 
Ignorance at its best.

More and more I get the feeling the dogs are scared in LOS, similar to the cows in India.

Because they are protected by law.

Destroy the dogs and charge the woman.

 

It's not rocket science but obviously too difficult for these inadequates.

300 000 stray dogs in Bangkok, where is the limit ?

7 hours ago, MSMU1993 said:

There are many Thais that have dogs and take good care of them, and keep them under control.  But there are a lot that don't.  If I could be PM for a day - i would buy and equip 100 pickups as mini surgeries and higher 100 vets and handlers.  There only job would be to role around the country sterilizing every stray (or left loose) dog they come across.  If they wont take care of them, at least don't allow them to procreate. 

I would too. Fortunately, there's Soi Dog Foundation. They go into an area for months at a time, and sterilize most of the cats and dogs there, then move on to other areas. They were on Samui for over a year!
If you ever want to help or donate to the cause, they would be a great candidate. What dedicated people, and the vets are AWESOME! Best surgeries I've ever seen!
Here's their link.
Soi Dog Foundation

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

Shame they couldn't get the word PitBull into the heading or this would have been a 15 pager by now ????.

Don’t worry too much, the inevitability of a PitBull or similar maiming or killing someone or even a child means that news article is not too far away…

 

Just the same as a bus full of tourist going down a ravine, it’s driver blaming a slippery road, or or a truck plowing through a load of traffic at lights, the driver claiming brake failure, or someone in a car killing another & fleeing the scene at 3am avoiding a breath test…

 

My point with all that… some issues in Thailand are utterly predicable because nothing is done to prevent them. 
 

It’s just very sad that along with all the other avoidable  issue ‘dogs attacking kids’ has become normalized. 

What a shame having dogs attack a child unbelievable Thailand  I use to shoot dogs for attacking my sheep where I come from  the owners learnt there lesson when they went home and found their dogs on the door step with a bullet in these heads   ...... I would have no mercy EATHER when a dog attacking a child   Australia is different they charge the owners of the dogs and still put the dogs down  101% the right thing to do    and make owners pay hard  the poor child has got to live with that fear now