Dog Dealers Bark Too Loudly

[george]

Dog dealers bark too loudly

ISAAN: Three northeastern men were arrested yesterday while roaming this provincial town and offering to barter plasticware for dogs, which they planned to sell to a meat trader.

Kalong Imboonsu, 56, and his two unidentified associates were arrested while riding in their pick-up truck and airing their offer through a loudspeaker. Thirteen dogs were found in a cage mounted on the truck.

Mr Kalong, from Sakon Nakhon's Kusuman district, said he was gathering dogs for a meat trader in the Northeast, whom he did not identify.

The three men were yesterday charged with unlicensed trading in animals.

Meanwhile, police rescued more than 800 dogs in Nakhon Phanom's Tha Uthen district just before they were transported across the Mekong river to Laos.

The market price in Laos and Vietnam was about 200 baht per head, police said.

--Bangkok Post 2003-11-13