Police close dog meat shop in Isaan

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Police close dog meat shop in Sakon Nakhon
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SAKON NAKHON, July 31 -- Authorities from the International Animals Trafficking Suppression Special Unit under Provincial Police Region 4 raided a dog meat shop in northeastern province of Sakon Nakhon and arrested three suspects.

The three men said they traveled to villages to buy the dogs in trade for goods or collected corpses of dogs killed by passing vehicles on roads.

Working with authorities from the Sakon Nakhon Office of Livestock Development, the special unit said the three suspects were from Baan Pang Kwang village in the provincial seats.

Authorities confiscated 70 kilogrammes of frozen dog meat at a roadside shop, on the banks of an irrigation canal.

The arrest came after local residents complained about their suspects trading for dogs in the area.

The suspects killed the dogs, selling the meat, prompting villagers concern about health and hygiene issues.

The three men confessed that they had been selling dog meat in the area for five months.

The butchered dog were sold for Bt80 a bag for raw meat and Bt100 for cooked meat.

Authorities charged the suspects with illegal trade and butchering animals and carcasses without permits.

Thais do not normally eat dog, but Vietnamese immigrants in Thailand's Northeast brought the custom with them from abroad. (MCOT online news)


-- TNA 2014-07-31

[plachon]

Darn....my favourite Sakhon Nakhon dog eatery gone to the pigs.....

That final bit about Thais not normally eating dog meat is a bit of a porky. Apart from Isaan, where you could argue most of the clientele are Lao ethnicity, rather than Thais, some of the most popular areas for dog consumption in Thailand are apparently in Phrae, Phayao, Lampang, Chiang Mai provinces apparently, where they most definitely are "Thai" ethnicity, by most simple definitions. And to pretend that people didn't eat dogs before the Vietnamese brought the commercialisation of dog markets into the Northeast, would be naive at best. Dog has always been a popular dish in Northern and Northeastern Thailand as far as I can discern, but only at the local, village level and not for sale. That is why your average Isaan family would rather take a bucket for their mangy mutt than money, giving the traders a tidy profit and avoiding the feeling of "barb" for selling off the family pet.

[Suriya4]

Yes, it is for the Vietnamese client. Thai people are Buddhist, don't kill animal and never eat dog.

[canuckamuck]

Must be a lot of Vietnamese immigrants in that spot for three guys to setup shop there

Some Thais definitely eat dogs, perhaps not in the cities, but I have seen it a number of times. In fact some tribal people believe the meat is medicinal.

I guess it has become a face thing now, so the official line is Thais don't do this.

Too bad, there is an endless supply, This must be the most feral dog infested country in the world. One of the things that keeps Thailand from appearing developed.

[canuckamuck]

Yes, it is for the Vietnamese client. Thai people are Buddhist, don't kill animal and never eat dog.

Yes a trip through any meat market will confirm that Buddhists don't kill animals. The animals sacrifice themselves for the good of the country.

[siampolee]

Ye gods that Peking Duck it now seems was actually Pekingese Dog. Tasty though.

Now I am coming to understand why of late I have begun to chase cats and cocking me leg when having a pee too.

[Payboy]

Thais do not normally eat dog, but Vietnamese immigrants in Thailand's Northeast brought the custom with them from abroad.

Bloody foreigners.

[davetrout]

for a lighter side nothing to do with eating dog. l have a metel roofing company in australia l call " two dogs roofing"

[thaidel48]

Yes, it is for the Vietnamese client. Thai people are Buddhist, don't kill animal and never eat dog.

I lived upcountry in a village near Puwieng in Khon Kaen province. At night you would hear motorbikes creeping along followed by a yelp and there would be one less mutt wandering round in the morning. Turns out that the local yobs have acciquired a taste for dog meat ( well have you ever tried shooting one of those home-made muskets they use..could'nt hit the side of Lumpini Stadium at 3 paces ) they are all Thai. Truth of the matter is in some places Thais do eat dog .

[spidermike007]

Sorry, but a stray dog by the side of the road cannot represent a safe thing to eat. How long has that mutt been dead? What kinds of bacteria are we talking about here? Safety standards are a good thing, even setting aside any moral ambiguities that dog mean represents.

[goltec]

Yes, it is for the Vietnamese client. Thai people are Buddhist, don't kill animal and never eat dog.

Yes a trip through any meat market will confirm that Buddhists don't kill animals. The animals sacrifice themselves for the good of the country.

My mother in law does not want to kill animals either. So she leaves the alive Tilapia in a bucket without water untill it dies by it self........after an hour or so of strugling to stay alive.......

same in the market where they remove the scales of the fish while still alive.......

[fabphil]

Yuk...!!

[kamahele]

As a dog lover, I don't like the custom of eating dog, but historically I think many many cultures have eaten dog and other animals that we now turn our nose up at. I hope to see an end to this custom myself but this isn't my country or culture.

[Gandtee]

Yes, it is for the Vietnamese client. Thai people are Buddhist, don't kill animal and never eat dog.

Of course they don't. They never murder, tell lies or do any of the nasty things that non Buddhists do

[stattointhailand]

Yes, it is for the Vietnamese client. Thai people are Buddhist, don't kill animal and never eat dog.

Yes a trip through any meat market will confirm that Buddhists don't kill animals. The animals sacrifice themselves for the good of the country.

My mother in law does not want to kill animals either. So she leaves the alive Tilapia in a bucket without water untill it dies by it self........after an hour or so of strugling to stay alive.......

same in the market where they remove the scales of the fish while still alive.......

And the Takatan (grasshppers) and Gop (frogs) just get tossed into the boiling fat alive

[Gandtee]

for a lighter side nothing to do with eating dog. l have a metel roofing company in australia l call " two dogs roofing"

Sounds like your company is a bit Ruff! Ruff! Groan.

[nahkit]

Darn....my favourite Sakhon Nakhon dog eatery gone to the pigs.....

That final bit about Thais not normally eating dog meat is a bit of a porky. Apart from Isaan, where you could argue most of the clientele are Lao ethnicity, rather than Thais, some of the most popular areas for dog consumption in Thailand are apparently in Phrae, Phayao, Lampang, Chiang Mai provinces apparently, where they most definitely are "Thai" ethnicity, by most simple definitions. And to pretend that people didn't eat dogs before the Vietnamese brought the commercialisation of dog markets into the Northeast, would be naive at best. Dog has always been a popular dish in Northern and Northeastern Thailand as far as I can discern, but only at the local, village level and not for sale. That is why your average Isaan family would rather take a bucket for their mangy mutt than money, giving the traders a tidy profit and avoiding the feeling of "barb" for selling off the family pet.

In my 30 years of living in and visiting a small Isaan village, I have never, ever, seen or heard of anyone eating dog and I think it must be at least 10 years since I last saw a dog-catchers' van doing the rounds.

[godden]

got me thinking about a great local bitter brewed back in the uk called ' the dogs b*ll*cks' brewed by the Chilern brewery.

[stattointhailand]

got me thinking about a great local bitter brewed back in the uk called ' the dogs b*ll*cks' brewed by the Chilern brewery.

Err I think it is brewed by the Wychwood Brewery and available around christmastime each year, but that might have changed in the last 10 yrs

Edited July 31, 2014 by stattointhailand

[ib1b4]

Neighbours of mine have a cook up about every six weeks (at a guess ) where some of their friends come over. On the menu would be either dog or python depending on availability. I have always turned down the invitations to eat there.

[Thai Travel Bug]

On new years eve back 3 or 4 years ago in a village near Sisaket, one of our dogs turned up in the morning with a wound of about 5 inches to the neck, open, and obviously done with a very sharp knife. Only cut right through the skin, did not hit the neck, but you could see into the neck.....wife said that someone must have tried to kill it to eat it for New Years Eve.

[rlopes]

The Vietnamese eat dog's meat to increase their "virility". You'll always see a bunch of men in the Thit Chó restaurants, but almost no women.

Not to say that the Thais don't eat it.

[thaiguzzi]

Yes, it is for the Vietnamese client. Thai people are Buddhist, don't kill animal and never eat dog.

You don't half spout some sh#it in every post you've ever made on here.

[Arwon]

My faithful Thai ridgeback "disappeared" a few months ago from near PakThongChai, despite intensive searches he was never found, I hope he gave them a good long dose of diarrhoea

[lvr181]

for a lighter side nothing to do with eating dog. l have a metel roofing company in australia l call " two dogs roofing"

Sounds like your company is a bit Ruff! Ruff! Groan.

Wrong wrong totally wrong. Ruff Ruff is what the dog said when he wiped his a*se with sand paper!

Edited July 31, 2014 by lvr181

[Pii Kate]

What? So if you have a permit, it's okay to kill dogs? Three guys working for 4 months....drop in the bucket. What about the long established butchers in Northern Thailand, working for decades, killing dogs, selling to tribes, Burmese, etc. Go for the big time criminals. As usual, a pat on the back for small stuff while the real criminals go on killing freely. Placating the masses as usual.

[transam]

Darn....my favourite Sakhon Nakhon dog eatery gone to the pigs.....

That final bit about Thais not normally eating dog meat is a bit of a porky. Apart from Isaan, where you could argue most of the clientele are Lao ethnicity, rather than Thais, some of the most popular areas for dog consumption in Thailand are apparently in Phrae, Phayao, Lampang, Chiang Mai provinces apparently, where they most definitely are "Thai" ethnicity, by most simple definitions. And to pretend that people didn't eat dogs before the Vietnamese brought the commercialisation of dog markets into the Northeast, would be naive at best. Dog has always been a popular dish in Northern and Northeastern Thailand as far as I can discern, but only at the local, village level and not for sale. That is why your average Isaan family would rather take a bucket for their mangy mutt than money, giving the traders a tidy profit and avoiding the feeling of "barb" for selling off the family pet.

In my 30 years of living in and visiting a small Isaan village, I have never, ever, seen or heard of anyone eating dog and I think it must be at least 10 years since I last saw a dog-catchers' van doing the rounds.

Not only are dogs casseroled, cats too..

[iReason]

"...collected corpses of dogs killed by passing vehicles on roads."

Just plain savage.

[slipperylobster]

Yes, it is for the Vietnamese client. Thai people are Buddhist, don't kill animal and never eat dog.

So.....Vietnamese are not Buddhist?

[slipperylobster]

No more Bowser Burgers?