So on Saturday as I drove up the Soi where I live and I saw a large banner on someone's gate. also there was red ribbons. The writing was in Thai so I just assumed it was supporting the red shirts.

When I drove by later I pointed it out to the missus and she read it, it actually said that someone had poisoned their dog and the dog had died, and they wished on the offender 7 days of bad luck and a wish that they will be crippled for life.

Anyone else seen anything like this on their travels?

No, but I do know a house in Chiangmai where the sign on the gate warns of a 'chien lunatique'! Sorry if that's normal phrasing in French, but to an Englishman it looks, well, lunatic.

End of the 90's, while living in Menteng, Jakarta during the dodgy events ; we always kept a big sign on the house's gate mentioning "pribumi" (which means "native").

Sign of times?!?

Perhaps she should of done something about her dog that was constantly barking, instead of ingoring our her neighbours requests to do something about it

Perhaps she should of done something about her dog that was constantly barking, instead of ingoring our her neighbours requests to do something about it

The dog was barking because it got scared of your ever twitching face.. so in a way your responsible for the demise of the dog (maybe in more ways then one)

I remember signs that read "Dogs and Sailors Keep Off the Grass".

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Edited March 24, 201016 yr by neverdie

Bad old days in England:

hmmmm well that just gave me a brilliant idea to quieten those pesky Mutts down my street...

even better i can blame it on the Yellow SHIRTS with my red ribbons...

Maybe the offender had already had 7 years of bad luck with their dog barking?

amazing, not one of you even know why this has happened yet you automatically assume it is due to barking. Some of you guys really do need to get lives.

You should go down to their house in a wheelchair and demand compensation.

Woof-woof!

amazing, not one of you even know why this has happened yet you automatically assume it is due to barking. Some of you guys really do need to get lives.

Not guilty! What I should have said in my first post instead of telling my own little story is that I find it very heartening that some Thai people get so angry when their pet is poisoned that they resort to witchcraft to get their own back... not that it's quite the way I would have reacted! In the villages dogs are not usually held to be of such importance.

You don't give enough information for me even to guess why the dog was poisoned; in my village in Buriram it would have been for killing chickens (I've lost dogs that way for that reason).

amazing, not one of you even know why this has happened yet you automatically assume it is due to barking. Some of you guys really do need to get lives.

Well it wouldn't be for meowing would it???? !

Bet you got excited when you saw those red ribbons!!!!

No, but I do know a house in Chiangmai where the sign on the gate warns of a 'chien lunatique'! Sorry if that's normal phrasing in French, but to an Englishman it looks, well, lunatic.

No it is not

That means "moody dog" where it should be "Chien méchant" (vicious dog)

But maybe the owner really meant "moody" who knows?

No, but I do know a house in Chiangmai where the sign on the gate warns of a 'chien lunatique'! Sorry if that's normal phrasing in French, but to an Englishman it looks, well, lunatic.

No it is not

That means "moody dog" where it should be "Chien méchant" (vicious dog)

But maybe the owner really meant "moody" who knows?

Thanks, Alyx. It did seem a little odd to me... and why in French? (Yes, I know one could equally well say 'Why in English?', but it is more likely to be understood here than French) After all, 'Mad dogs and Englishmen....'

I remember reading years ago that vandals were stealing handrails and gabage cans for scrap. The Bangkok Metropolitan agency out up signs saying that the thieves would be cursed for staeling the rails. The Thai's all of them are very superstitous even the seemingly educated ones.

LL

amazing, not one of you even know why this has happened yet you automatically assume it is due to barking. Some of you guys really do need to get lives.

Not guilty! What I should have said in my first post instead of telling my own little story is that I find it very heartening that some Thai people get so angry when their pet is poisoned that they resort to witchcraft to get their own back... not that it's quite the way I would have reacted! In the villages dogs are not usually held to be of such importance.

You don't give enough information for me even to guess why the dog was poisoned; in my village in Buriram it would have been for killing chickens (I've lost dogs that way for that reason).

Surely you shouldn't eat a dog that has been poisoned, should you?