Poor woman with 43 dogs wants help to care for them

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Poor woman with 43 dogs wants help to care for them

By The Nation

 

 

A 58-year-old woman who lives on a Bt1,000 monthly allowance from a temple has asked the public to help her care for her 43 dogs.

 

Wandee Mungkhamen moved from Ratchaburi province to live in a shanty house near Puang Malai Temple.

 

She said the Bt1,000 allowance was not enough to feed the dogs and provide them with medical care.

 

Wandee was allowed by the owner of a plot of land to build her shanty house on it. The house has no address, tap water and electricity.

 

She earns the Bt1,000 by cleaning toilets at the temple.

 

She said she came to the temple in 2013 to sell a kind of sweet but it did not sell well and she lost money, forcing her to work for the temple.

 

Wandee said she initially took in 20 abandoned dogs. And after she was allowed to live on the plot, the number grew to 70.

 

But many of them were run over, leaving her with 43.

 

Locals erected a net around her house to prevent the dogs running on to the road.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30321646

 

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[canuckamuck]

You live on 1000 baht a month and you take in 70 dogs and then ask for help?

What tremendous sense of judgement she has. 

The woman is good hearted but at the same time a menace to society. Euthanize the dogs and tell her she is not allowed to take any more in,

[Bluespunk]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

 

She earns the Bt1,000 by cleaning toilets at the temple.

How generous of the temple. 

[Lupatria]

Strange in a country with estimated 500 dog butchers...

[klauskunkel]

I don't help fools

[jaywalker]

14 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

You live on 1000 baht a month and you take in 70 dogs and then ask for help?

What tremendous sense of judgement she has. 

The woman is good hearted but at the same time a menace to society. Euthanize the dogs and tell her she is not allowed to take any more in,

Dog responsibility will never happen in Thailand.

 

She probably thinks euthanasia refers to punk kids on motorbikes.

 

 

 

[hdkane]

not until they are neutered/spayed...and the terminal ones are painlessly killed.

[Orton Rd]

The lot should be put down, problem solved there but that still leaves about 4 million of the pests still at large on the streets

[jaywalker]

3 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

The lot should be put down, problem solved there but that still leaves about 4 million of the pests still at large on the streets

5 HUNDRED million.

 

Population of roughly 70,000,000 and figure 7 or so mutts per person.

 

That's being conservative.

 

Aren't there some starving kids somewhere in Africa that could use some protein?

 

[nasanews]

May God bless cats, they never bother anyone.

[steven100]

I would like to help her with the 43 dogs .....

We can put them on the next truck for china. 

[djayz]

It's always the poor who give and share the most. They know first hand what it's like to be hungry. I admire the woman for being so kind-hearted considering her situation. 

 

As for the temple paying her only ฿ 1,000 a month to clean their toilets: shame on them! There isn't a single religion that doesn't exploite those who can least affort it.