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Thursday , August 27 , 2009

Street Pet Peddlers, Would You Buy (the Little Things Sorry States)

Posted by Piset , Reader : 501 , 08:32:15

I believe that very few dog lovers could ever walk past them without stopping to take a look at these lovely little things and perhaps pat each of them a few times. This picture below is very similar to the one we found in front of a McDonal while it was raining hard out side. My daughter ran out there to look at them 5 times and even asked them about the price of these little things. We obviously feel rather sorry for those little things that are in grave danger of catching a cold a dying soon. Some of these little things appeared to have gotten sick already. Yet, the peddler did nothing to help them. Would you help them? How? Having had many dogs at home all our lives, we know that, even if we paid that 1,400 baht each for these little things and bring them home, we probably won't be able to save them. And, to buy them would only cause more of them to be put into this kind of sorry state again. Below, are wooden crates that were found at a truck depot and hundreds of cat lovers took action and called police to stop these 5,000 cats from being shipped to the restaurants.

I believe that very few dog lovers could ever walk past them without stopping to take a look at these lovely little things and perhaps pat each of them a few times.

This picture below is very similar to the one we found in front of a McDonal while it was raining hard out side. My daughter ran out there to look at them 5 times and even asked them about the price of these little things. We obviously feel rather sorry for those little things that are in grave danger of catching a cold a dying soon. Some of these little things appeared to have gotten sick already. Yet, the peddler did nothing to help them. Would you help them? How?

Having had many dogs at home all our lives, we know that, even if we paid that 1,400 baht each for these little things and bring them home, we probably won't be able to save them. And, to buy them would only cause more of them to be put into this kind of sorry state again.

Below, are wooden crates that were found at a truck depot and hundreds of cat lovers took action and called police to stop these 5,000 cats from being shipped to the restaurants.

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Piset date : 30/08/2009 time : 00.52
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Piset

Whenever our home runs a little low on the number of dogs. would go and pick up a few more of them from Jaj Gen Chamlong's shelter for abandoned dogs near Don Muaeng. There are about 10,000 dogs ther big and small young and old for you to choose. They would bark in a rather welcoming tone when their see us sounding like the begging for us to bring them home. Especially, not many people would bring the older dogs home. These older fellows are more active in calling for your attention.

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Piset date : 30/08/2009 time : 00.42
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Piset

The last time we brought a pet home was an apparently abandoned rabit. We did give it 3 months of healthy and loving living before it died from stuffing itself with cookies from my daughter's desk. It jumped up there where we went to the airport to send my daughter back to Thailand.

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Piset date : 27/08/2009 time : 20.10
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Piset

I have no defense for those dog eating people in China. It has been a rather long tradition in most parts of China that dogs are treated as a high class delicacy. So, you culd imagine my hosts' faces, when I inform them ahead of each banquets that I do not eat dogs, cats, turtoises, or snakes. Much less so, the bear's palms or the other protected animals. Sometimes, the host would take the offering of the rare kind of meat on the table as the honor they give to the guests.

Another kind of meat that I do not eat are the lamps. Those little goats when they were small were just so lovely that I cannot bear eating them.

They say Cantonese people would eat anything that can move.

Well, slaughtering of "meat dogs" from the meat dog farms aside, Chinese people are getting more and more attached to pets. Among other reasons are the lonely families with only one grand child for the parents and two pairs of grand parents. Other reasons for them to become attached to dogs and other pets could be for their own security at home.

China's pet laws specifically spelled out that dogs that are allowed as pets in the household are the small size dogs only and each family may keep only one dog.

At the same time, you might be surprised, the legislative body of China has just passed a law against cruelty to pets and animals.

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catch22 date : 27/08/2009 time : 13.09
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I agree with anthonyford, most people do not see the suffering animal only the instant gratification of 'yummie' in front of them, which makes them fat anyway. I'm not against meat eating, I just think we slaughter way too much that is surplus to our needs and it is done without mercy or feeling.

Of course these puppies are adorable and who wouldn't want to take one home? However, in Thailand the land of instant gratification, too many of these dogs are bought for their 'cuteness' and for the little brat at home to pull around. As soon as it starts to shit and piss everywhere, due to lack of training and laziness of the owner and bites junior because the kids an idiot and needs biting, the puppy usually spends his life in a cage or gets dumped along the road.

For a buddhist country, I fail to see on a daily basis the sort of compassion buddha spoke of.

Yes, China is one of the cruelest countries toward animals - most far SE and far east countries are similar

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wch date : 27/08/2009 time : 10.14

Selling puppies along the street is not strange.
Same scene is found in Thailand too.
However those countries where pet culture is weak, may be problem. When the canine is young, it looks cute so people buy but later when it turns ugly and demand much hands of cares, they dump them, back to street !.

In the past i drove often Friendship highway, from bangkok to khonkaen and found many dog death on the road, one day i obseved them and found they were mostly dumpted ones, including small toy terrier to rottweiller.

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anthonyford date : 27/08/2009 time : 09.35
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Buying the dogs will just encourage the dealer to go and get more dogs and subject them to the same cruelty. The country probably has the laws but does not have the will in the culture to enforce them. I assume this is in China?. China is renowned for animal cruelty; if they gave gold medals for animal cruelty China would top the Gold medal table. “How we treat our animals is a reflection upon society as a whole,”

Dogs and cats have similar intelligence and awareness to pigs. I read that most of the “exotic meat” in China is processed using basic butchering equipment (a knife and cleaver). Killing them with simple butchering equipment would be very traumatic for the animal. Only a small amount of people think beyond the plate in front of them. Overcoming this is the key to cruelty prevention.

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