Soi Dog Foundation has just surpassed the significant milestone of having neutered and vaccinated over 750,000 stray dogs and cats in Thailand and is well on its way to reaching a million animals before 2024.

 

The foundation’s CNVR (Catch, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return) programme began in Phuket in 2003. After almost two decades of work – and with the support of their generous donors worldwide – it has grown to become the largest programme of its kind anywhere in the world. 

 

The main focus of Soi Dog’s mobile programme is in Greater Bangkok and the Southern regions, though they also support projects in more than 16 provinces around the country, including Kanchanaburi, Chonburi, Chiang Mai, and Songkhla. 

 

Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/08/09/way-to-a-million-soi-dog-hits-750000-sterilisations-in-thailand/

 

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Just 102 a day over the past 20 years then and most of those let back on the streets to continue being noise, disease, safety pests. Rather misleading as usual. How many has this poor effort reduced the population by I wonder. obviously just a sticking plaster non solution to the problem..

Despite being very cynical initially about Soi Dog's efforts I have been amazed at the difference they have made to the dog problem around Patong and Phuket especially since the Tsunami. Dogs were a problem and everywhere in Patong in the early 2000's and that has noticeably improved year on year until they were hardly noticeable on my early morning walks.

Some were aggressive and it detracted from the ambience of the beautiful beach.

I do note that there has been an increase in dog numbers the last year or so during Covid but I have not seen any problems.

The beach dogs seem to treat lowly foreigners with disdain and are not a nuisance at the moment.

Soi Dog has certainly helped in Patong and are worthy of support.

Well, credit where it's due: they've done well in what they set out to do.

 

But I don't see the point of returning dogs (albeit desexed) back onto to streets to lead an uncared for life for the next 15 years.

I'd be more interested in knowing if the soi dog population had grown since 2003 and the start of this process and if it is growing even with this program. If it is then they need a far more drastic - and more realistic - population control program, like a huge cull and start again

Excellent! This is a much better approach to solving this "problem" than killing them. ????

14 minutes ago, billsmart said:

Excellent! This is a much better approach to solving this "problem" than killing them. ????

How many do you plan on adopting, Bill?

4 hours ago, Patong2 said:

Despite being very cynical initially about Soi Dog's efforts I have been amazed at the difference they have made to the dog problem around Patong and Phuket especially since the Tsunami. Dogs were a problem and everywhere in Patong in the early 2000's and that has noticeably improved year on year until they were hardly noticeable on my early morning walks.

Some were aggressive and it detracted from the ambience of the beautiful beach.

I do note that there has been an increase in dog numbers the last year or so during Covid but I have not seen any problems.

The beach dogs seem to treat lowly foreigners with disdain and are not a nuisance at the moment.

Soi Dog has certainly helped in Patong and are worthy of support.

Phuket is an Island, far easier to control strays and not nearly as many. Seems they cannot re produce what they have done there to keep the population growth down in the rest of the country, The numbers speak for themselves, 102 a day nationwide has done very little over all.

At least they do something to solve a problem ...

instead of the many forum members who are just moaning and complaining , but do nothing , or worse , just spread hatred against dogs .

 

26 minutes ago, billsmart said:

Excellent! This is a much better approach to solving this "problem" than killing them. ????

If you kill them, the same as livestock, they cease to be a problem. Just sterilise and they remain a problem. 

Just now, nobodysfriend said:

At least they do something to solve a problem ...

instead of the many forum members who are just moaning and complaining , but do nothing , or worse , just spread hatred against dogs .

 

If there was an anti soi dog foundation slotting them I would certainly contribute to that,.Unfortunately doing anything effective is not allowed, so we have these people who pretend they have a solution , when the numbers and streets prove otherwise

2 minutes ago, nobodysfriend said:

At least they do something to solve a problem ...

instead of the many forum members who are just moaning and complaining , but do nothing , or worse , just spread hatred against dogs .

 

I think the dogs themselves and unconcerned owners do enough of that. And by the way, the problem remains unsolved. 

1 minute ago, jacko45k said:

unconcerned owners

The problem is that most dogs have NO owners!

2 minutes ago, 2baht said:

The problem is that most dogs have NO owners!

Yes, or owners that have given up on the responsibility. 

great .....   so 750,000 diseased flee ridden mutts are still out in the soi's still cr_ping everywhere, laying in 7-11 doorways,  biting young kids who want to play in the street,  biting elderly walking past , biting folks on the beaches,   attacking each other and so on ...... 

 

well'   that project worked a treat     !!    

crazy thinking that's for sure ...

5 minutes ago, steven100 said:

great .....   so 750,000 diseased flee ridden mutts are still out in the soi's still cr_ping everywhere, laying in 7-11 doorways,  biting young kids who want to play in the street,  biting elderly walking past , biting folks on the beaches,   attacking each other and so on ...... 

 

well'   that project worked a treat     !!    

crazy thinking that's for sure ...

And only another 25 million to go!

24 minutes ago, nobodysfriend said:

just spread hatred against dogs .

hahaha this is so awesome 

 

soi dog lives matter.

2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

I'd be more interested in knowing if the soi dog population had grown since 2003 and the start of this process and if it is growing even with this program. If it is then they need a far more drastic - and more realistic - population control program, like a huge cull and start again

Population growth is the one thing these do gooders never seem talk about, they only want to boast about the relatively small numbers they stop from breeding. 

46 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Yes, or owners that have given up on the responsibility. 

Yep, mostly. I used to live near the beach in Rayong, near to a cluster of seafood restaurants. Cars would draw up to the beach and throw out dogs that had been family pets, and just abandon them, thinking that people on the beach would feed them from their tables.  (Same at Buddhist temples).

Obviously puppies  / gifts that had grown past their 'cute' stage, and required food and exercise. Pretty heartbreaking to see the dogs try to run back to the cars as they drive off, tbh.

Anyway, well done to Soi Dog for making a difference.

26 minutes ago, proton said:

Population growth is the one thing these do gooders never seem talk about, they only want to boast about the relatively small numbers they stop from breeding. 

They need a large, visible dog population to keep their donations coming in.

I saw some nuts for sale at the wet market.

54 minutes ago, Johnnyngai said:

I saw some nuts for sale at the wet market.

Newts or nutty dogs? ????

5 hours ago, nobodysfriend said:

At least they do something to solve a problem ...

instead of the many forum members who are just moaning and complaining , but do nothing , or worse , just spread hatred against dogs .

 

....and how many will you be taking home to care for?

5 hours ago, proton said:

If there was an anti soi dog foundation slotting them I would certainly contribute to that,.Unfortunately doing anything effective is not allowed, so we have these people who pretend they have a solution , when the numbers and streets prove otherwise

I would also join the Anti Soi Dog Foundation if there was one. Only a backward third world country lets its feral dogs roam wild among its population. These self righteous people, especially the  Westerners, should adopt these feral dogs and take them back to their own country if the are so concerned.

9 hours ago, Patong2 said:

Despite being very cynical initially about Soi Dog's efforts I have been amazed at the difference they have made to the dog problem around Patong and Phuket especially since the Tsunami. Dogs were a problem and everywhere in Patong in the early 2000's and that has noticeably improved year on year until they were hardly noticeable on my early morning walks.

Some were aggressive and it detracted from the ambience of the beautiful beach.

I do note that there has been an increase in dog numbers the last year or so during Covid but I have not seen any problems.

The beach dogs seem to treat lowly foreigners with disdain and are not a nuisance at the moment.

Soi Dog has certainly helped in Patong and are worthy of support.

Actually I think I have noticed a difference  here in parts of Pattaya  too.

This explains the high-pitched barking in my area. I guess the long drawn-out howls are the unkindest cut of all?

6 hours ago, 2baht said:

Excellent! This is a much better approach to solving this "problem" than killing them. 

 

How many do you plan on adopting, Bill?

I currently have adopted 14 strays. How about you? How many do you have? 

6 hours ago, proton said:

If you kill them, the same as livestock, they cease to be a problem. Just sterilise and they remain a problem. 

If you kill them, IMO, YOU are the problem, not them. ????

1 minute ago, billsmart said:

I currently have adopted 14 strays. How about you? How many do you have? 

I have none and don't want any either! Sleep well! ????

1 hour ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Actually I think I have noticed a difference  here in parts of Pattaya  too.

If I accidentally drive down the wrong residential side soi I have to execute a u-turn really quickly to avoid being attacked. And those are not even street dogs, they are guard dogs without gates. It drives me nuts that this is allowed. I'm in a public area. I should not be attacked.