February 1, 201511 yr Prk-nam-pla, filter out the pepper seeds after gring in a Koke. Put the liquid in a small squirt gun or spray bottle. Spray some in the face or ass of the offending creature. No permanent damage, my experience using this method while in Bangkok when jogging was, they never bothered me again (the same one). Aim for the nose! Cheap nam-pla has a lot of salt in it, so test the device before use.
February 2, 201511 yr Citronella spray work. For some reason dogs hate it but it does them no damage.
February 2, 201511 yr Befriend the soi dogs in 'your' immediate territory. For other areas it is the stone. I was visiting a small Khmer temple slightly northwest of Prasat in Surin province. A dog in full attack mode came running it jumped just as I was pickung up a stone. The dog made a full turn while in air. Never saw a beast escaping like that fellow. After that it was loud barking from a distance and good cover. So a stone in the pocket is fine but the dog wont see you picking it up. Usually reaching out for the stone does the trick.
February 2, 201511 yr Carry some chicken scraps. Throw them, and they should start eating the treats. There is a good chance that after a few feedings, they will remember you as a nice guy. Rat poison patties would thin them out. Drop a couple along your route where-ever you encounter hostiles.
February 2, 201511 yr Befriend the soi dogs in 'your' immediate territory. For other areas it is the stone. I was visiting a small Khmer temple slightly northwest of Prasat in Surin province. A dog in full attack mode came running it jumped just as I was pickung up a stone. The dog made a full turn while in air. Never saw a beast escaping like that fellow. After that it was loud barking from a distance and good cover. So a stone in the pocket is fine but the dog wont see you picking it up. Usually reaching out for the stone does the trick. Me thinks you've been watching too many movies mate.
February 2, 201511 yr I got surrounded by a pack of dogs at a temple once, and one of the workers selling drinks nearby instantly threw out a firecracker at them, and luckily they all dispersed.
February 2, 201511 yr I'm partial to eliminating the problem. Vicious dogs have no business patrolling the streets and harassing the public. In the West, these dogs would be rounded up and euthanized. Here, you have no choice but to take matters into your own hands. Get yourself some carbofuran (a powerful granular insecticide of the carbamate family), some ground pork and a fannypack. Make up some meatballs with the carbofuran (the canine LD50 is 19mg/kg), put them each in a plastic bag and into your fanny pack. Whenever one of these bastards comes snarling at you, just surreptitiously slip a meatball out of your fanny pack and let it fall to the ground. The sonuvabitch won't bother you the next time you ride by. What if an innocent pet were to eat an undiscovered bait? God forbid, what if a toddler were to put one in his mouth? In the USA and Canada, you would be imprisoned for illegal and irresponsible use of poisons. Oh well . . . FYI: The US and Canada have animal control.
February 2, 201511 yr Carry some chicken scraps. Throw them, and they should start eating the treats. There is a good chance that after a few feedings, they will remember you as a nice guy. Rat poison patties would thin them out. Drop a couple along your route where-ever you encounter hostiles. Yeah great stuff. Don't negotiate with an aggressor.
February 2, 201511 yr Throw rocks or boot them in the head. Works for me. (Not so effective if you wear sandals or flip flops)
February 2, 201511 yr Popular Post By the way, "innocent pets" are not t large, so it is impossible to get an innocent pet by accident. In the US and Canada, all wandering dogs will eventually be picked up and take off the streets. If you have a problem, make a phone call and the problem will usual;y be gone in one day. For those who think some of the suggestion mentioned in this threat are extreme, just remember where you are and the limited options that are actually effective. I have always been a dog lover and it never occurred to me to want to kill one, NEVER -- not even the bad ones. But after being here 8 years, seeing these marauding packs roaming everywhere, after having all my chickens killed by them more than once (I have a fence, but these wily feral dogs re wizards and discovering ways to breach it), my love for dogs in general has been diluted by pragmatism. So for those of you sitting down there in Pattaya with a big wall around your small house, who drink, love your pets and watch TV ll day, it's easy to judge others, but until you have immersed yourself in village life, way out, where you have to take care of yourself, you probably do not have a clue. It is one thing to build a nice fence, but some folks cannot afford to spend 500,000 baht to put a big dog-proof wall around their property. But they may have chickens and ma like gardening. These marauding dogs eventually breach a fence, will dig up the gardens and kill the chickens. I do not hold anybody morally accountable for pragmatically dealing with marauding feral dogs, whose packs have grown in size and need to be thinned. I'll leave that to the armchair judges. By the way, someone asked if I ever actually gave a dog a carbofuran laced meatball. The answer is no. but on two occasions, the numbers of feral dogs in our village had grown to the point that they were just overrunning everything, shitting everywhere, digging everywhere, snarling at people, that I had had enough and intended to take the bull by the horns. But on both occasions, some unknown Thai villager beat me to it. Once my wife came up and asked me if I had "started my plan yet"? I asked her what plan, she clarified and I answered, no, why? She said there were dead and dying dogs all over the place. Somebody else had their fill and apparently laced the entire limited road system with baits. It Seemed like most of the villagers were happy with this development, but those whose own uncontrolled dogs got caught up in the scheme were not happy about it. No toddlers were reported dead. It's just a way to keep an equilibrium. The populations always come back. The pendulum swings . . .
February 3, 201511 yr "So for those of you sitting down there in Pattaya with a big wall around your small house, who drink, love your pets and watch TV ll day, it's easy to judge others, but until you have immersed yourself in village life, way out, where you have to take care of yourself, you probably do not have a clue". Who's judging now?
February 7, 201511 yr When I was upcountry in the GF's village the family were given a puppy, a very popular pet. They laughed when he chased the chickens. A few days later they noticed all the newborn chicks were missing, the puppy went on a motorbike ride never seen again.
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