Another "bone" of contention is the stupid farangs who roll up in their cars and empty the remains of yesterdays dinner in the midst of a pack of soi dogs, right next to my bloody house - WHY ???
To keep them away from their house?
As mentioned above, it's Thais that normally do this and it's a Buddist thing to do with a believe in reincarnation.
The fact of the matter with regards to street dogs is that they're highly territorial and the only real way of keeping them away is by having dogs of your own to take over that territory. Even if you adapt a couple of street dogs, if you feed them well they'll soon be bigger and healthier than all the rest and be capable of chasing them away.
I have to say that in all honesty, if you don't like dogs, you're going to struggle to be happy in Thailand unless you go and live in a tower-block condominium.
Strange logic you apply to this discussion !!! If you read my post again you may grasp that I do not like soi dogs !
Given that I dislike said dogs, why the hell would I want to adopt a couple!
I know all about "the Buddhist thing" so no lectures please.
I also have to say "in all honesty" I have lived in Thailand for 6 years and why should I struggle to be happy because I do not like the filthy packs of vermin that have taken over the sois?
I really do understand, but surely you knew there's a soi dog problem here before you made the move to live here? This is something I realized within the first 48 hours of my first visit to Thailand, and when I moved here, I also knew the government was not going to address the problem just because of me.
Don't try to impress me with your manner of dress cos a monkey himself is a monkey no less - cold fact
There must come a point where the dog population exceeds the country's ability to cope with them.
I am a dog lover but do accept that an uncontrolled dog population is a menace to public safety. Animal activists care more for animals than they do humans and do not offer viable solutions. These 'extremists' make the problem worse.
Stray dogs carry a risk of rabies, dog bites to children, pack attacks, chasing cars, bikes and motorcycles (causing injury and fatalities). There is dog faeces everywhere and the noise is disturbing. Dogs that can't compete for food, die of starvation. You can smell their foul, rotting carcasses for days. Why should people walk with fear trying to get to their own homes?
If we can kill cows, pigs, sheep, chickens and just about anything else that moves, for food, why exempt dogs? Ship them off to Vietnam. Castrate those that are left and stop showing re-runs of 'Lassie'.
MrPlum wrote:
I am a dog lover but do accept that an uncontrolled dog population is a menace to public safety. Animal activists care more for animals than they do humans and do not offer viable solutions. These 'extremists' make the problem worse.
Stray dogs carry a risk of rabies, dog bites to children, pack attacks, chasing cars, bikes and motorcycles (causing injury and fatalities). There is dog faeces everywhere and the noise is disturbing. Dogs that can't compete for food, die of starvation. You can smell their foul, rotting carcasses for days. Why should people walk with fear trying to get to their own homes?
If we can kill cows, pigs, sheep, chickens and just about anything else that moves, for food, why exempt dogs? Ship them off to Vietnam. Castrate those that are left and stop showing re-runs of 'Lassie'.
Appropriate topic for me this morning, I've had no sleep, kept awake by the bastards barking and howling all night.
Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? - Hunter S Thompson
I really do understand, but surely you knew there's a soi dog problem here before you made the move to live here? This is something I realized within the first 48 hours of my first visit to Thailand, and when I moved here, I also knew the government was not going to address the problem just because of me.
Exactly, I lived in Java for many years where there were no street dogs whatsoever and one of the first things I noticed on arriving in Thailand was dogs. Anyone who thinks that they're all going to somehow miraculously disappear is going to be disappointed.
Spitfire wrote:I don't like dogs here. Any dog which doesn't have a name tag and address on the collar should be exterminated with extreme prejudice imo.
Bit harsh. There are plenty that just mosey about minding there own business trying to survive their meager existence. Not their fault.
The (possibly dangerous) pests...yup! Wipe them out my all means. I wouldn't bat an eyelid.
This whole thread is fantasy land dude as nothing will ever happen/change.......but I reserve the right to hold contempt for whatever I want to, and dogs are one of the few subjects here that have gained such status with me.
They are simply a public health hazard to all and need to be exterminated along with roaches and some other things.
My apologies for having an opinion. Is that still allowed?
Spitfire wrote:This whole thread is fantasy land dude as nothing will ever happen/change.......but I reserve the right to hold contempt for whatever I want to, and dogs are one of the few subjects here that have gained such status with me.
They are simply a public health hazard to all and need to be exterminated along with roaches and some other things.
My apologies for having an opinion. Is that still allowed?
Fair comment.
Apologies. This vision of a wagon cruising town wiping out the problem got me typing.
"Wagons cruising town wiping out the problem" is exactly what happened a few years ago when there was a rabies scare, maybe it's time to whip up another one!
Atheists have no need of a god. Our lives are not based on fear or guilt. We are moral because we know it's right.
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity. R J Hanlon
At least some Thais are actually looking into the problem:
Developing a Buddhist Model of Stray Dog Management for Building Dog Keeping Culture in Urban Community of Prachuab Khiri Khan Province
European Journal of Social Sciences – Volume 25, Number 2 (2011) http://www.eurojournals.com/EJSS_25_2_03.pdf
The authorities don't mind culling birds or cattle for disease spreading reason....hell various governments in the recent past from both sides don't even mind culling drug dealers and red shirt supporters, so I don't see how/why dogs have escaped so consistently.
so I don't see how/why dogs have escaped so consistently.
You can lay the blame squarely at the feet of a British social worker called Cooling who in 1998 (or thereabouts) got the old culling laws repealed and went back to Britain where they don't have large packs of dogs roaming the streets nor the threat of rabies.
Add to that a story about a stray dog.....
So now, instead of organised culls which targeted stray and/or dangerous dogs, Thai people simply put out poison which is not selective in it's victims.
of contention is the stupid farangs who roll up in their cars and empty the remains of yesterdays dinner in the midst of a pack of soi dogs, right next to my bloody house - WHY ???
Appropriate topic for me this morning, I've had no sleep, kept awake by the bastards barking and howling all night. 
