Dogs

[helge]

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that dog has pit bull in there somewhere

American pit bull ?

Maybe

But the white socks and sandals suggest some british genes

[malmomike77]

But the white socks and sandals suggest some british genes

have you never seen American Tourists on safari?

[helge]

have you never seen American Tourists on safari?

Why ?

I don't even own a riffle and wouldn't shoot them if I did

[tunk]

How the tune changes.

What part of "the water is still rising " that you don't understand you stupid piece of shit ? You never have anything to add to a thread. What could you add ? You live in a box in Malaysia. Your life must be so miserable, you pathetic piece of shit.

[tunk]

Picture doesn't do this dog justice. His head is massive and he has those jaws like a bear trap. He belongs to the monk in the next village. The monk comes by boat every morning, to walk and gather food. I saw him yesterday, he shares food with his dog before getting in his boat and going back. His dog waits here.

[tunk]

These are my 3 that survived from the litter of 7. On the right you can see what these people do for a living. The next village over make these out of clay and ash from burning rice chaft. There are always piles of clay and ash lining the road, it's always a shithole. When the water resedes, there village will be under several inches of this mix. On the left you can see the dog from the previous pic, he has adopted me. When I sit putting my shoes back on, he sits right up against me, looking out at 15 other dogs telling them to stay the fuck away.

[tunk]

Walked across the street this morning to check the water level. Stood at the edge of the water looking at my house. I thought I was still 5 or 6 feet safe, looks like 3 feet and it will be at my doorstep. It's been rising 5 or 6 inches a day.

[Shutree]

Walked across the street this morning to check the water level. Stood at the edge of the water looking at my house. I thought I was still 5 or 6 feet safe, looks like 3 feet and it will be at my doorstep. It's been rising 5 or 6 inches a day.

Is that the Mun River? I think all the water from here flows down to the big reservoir at Khon Kaen and then on to the Mun. It will take a while to get there.

[katie23]

@tunk - Thanks for the work that you do for the dogs. May God/ Allah/ Buddha bless you. Stray dogs (and cats) are indeed a problem in many developing countries (PH included).

[tunk]

Yeah it's the Mun. Well I hope we don't get a wall of water like we did 3 years ago. The wall came so fast and it was like nobody even knew it was coming. How in the hell could there not have been a warning. I posted a picture of evacuees across the street from me, if I see them packing up to leave, I'll know they heard something. But the Thai are not very good at planning ahead, when they look down and are standing in water then they will think to start packing up.

[tunk]

Thank you katie, it's not over yet, the water is still rising. I just got home from crossing the flood, first time I had to take a boat. Take my scooter to the edge of the water in Warren, get on gov. boat and go to Ubon, get off at the bridge and feed brown dog, and many others at the edge of the water. Catch a boat back to Warren and ask the nice young soldier if we can stop for 2 minutes to feed my dogs, he is a good man, no problem. I can't spend any time with them, but their bellies are full. If it keeps rising at the same rate, tomorrow I will take a hammer and nails to build them a higher platform. The building is flooded, they are up on a table, but it is plenty big for 4 dogs. I'm down to 4, Ashley is gone. Not sure why but I believe maybe Bau the alpha female might have made her leave. There is a pile of lumber, if it don't float away I can build them a platform. When we got back to Warren I tipped the nice young soldier, tomorrow they will know what I want.

[tunk]

This is brown dog that lives under the bridge, he lives on the bridge now. I go feed him everyday. He eats then tells me " well I got shit to do dad ' then off he goes. Sniffing out all the strange pussy, pissing on everything, and acting like he owns the place. He has adapted very well.



Brown dogs gf, she loves the water.



My pack. I put the ramp in for Sarge, the minature Shepard looking dog, he has a bad leg.







That pile of lumber on the right, what do you suppose lives in there ? Everything, toads, spiders, one small snake, and lots of centipedes. I killed 6 centipedes, two of them giants. I didn't dig any deeper in the pile than I had to. That black dog just joined them today.

[tunk]

I don't own a TV, haven't for 16 years. Not a fan of sitting watching somebody else live their life, the things I do are small, but everyday I'm out there. Some of the things I see. Some idiot on a jet ski trying to earn a baht by pulling a small boat through the flood waters, didn't go well at all. The small plastic boat starts whip lashing back and forth in the current, two passengers and their cargo dumped in the strong current. From wading in this flood water so much, I've seen, its not the depth of the water its the current.
The young soldiers almost always polite, second flood that I've mingled with the soldiers and they have always been helpful. Yesterday a RTARF man ripped me a new ass. I was getting in the taxi boat and this short fat man, with a face like a pig, got within inches of my face, looked up at me and just ripped me a new ass about " falang doesn't understand daw Q. " It was like this man had been waiting his whole life to rip a falang, he was loving showing the crowd who was in charge. Before I could open my stupid mouth, two Thai ladies standing behing me told the man he was wrong, the falang has been standing here in front of us all this time. The gf tells me the RTARF man probably loose face because of that and maybe I should avoid him in the future.
The main artery connecting Warren and Ubon is 6 lane highway, lined with the giant hardwares, and giant parking lots. Won't guess the distance, but its a long ways from the hardware on the left side to the one on the opposite side of the road. The hardware on the right was short on sandbags, the one on the left had sandbags to spare. The employees formed a bucket brigade. Every boat from the stores and DoHome has a giant warehouse, every cement tub, and they moved the sandbags from one side of the road to the other. Maybe a couple hundred people in that chain,looked like ants moving this sand.. Many employees still have to come to work everyday by boat to help man the walls. Some places they are trying to hold back 8 feet of water with sand bags and pumps. DoHome may have 20 big pumps, and I don't mean 2 inch pumps. they are pumping 5 or 6 inches, solid stream with all these big pumps. The news this morning, DoHome lost the battle last night.
Almost daylight and I have dogs to feed.

[Shutree]

I noticed that Google Maps has a feature, search "Northeastern Thailand floods". There are 2 hotspots, maybe wetspots, around Ubon Ratchatani.
There was a local government advice last night about more water being released from the Ubolratana Dam. That shouldn't affect us, we are upstream, it will be going Tunk's way. I am rooting for Tunk's dogs, not out of the trees/water yet.

[tunk]

Thanks Shutree, I appreciate that. As of today the water is still rising, slowly but still rising. Spent an hour with them today, Sally has learned that there are fish in the water and spends some time chasing fish. Pooh won't leave my side while I'm there, she lay beside me on that table, put her head on my lap and dosed off while I petted her. I've heard about more water coming our way, just hope they release it slowly so it doesn't make things worse. I passed the DoHome that flooded last night, it looks like a wall of sand bags gave away.

[tunk]

I Googled it Shutree, I didn't find the map showing flood water but it was interesting to see the area. On the South side of the river, Thetsaban 74 Alley, thats the route where I feed dogs. It's right on the rivers edge and 3 years ago when the flood water receded, the road started crumbling into the river. It was down to one lane. Three years and never repaired, it won't survive this flood.

[Shutree]

, I didn't find the map

Try this link:

Google Maps

or this one

Google Maps

[tunk]

Thanks, I found those maps, but all I saw were flags at flooded areas. The gf showed me what I was looking for on Ubon Sky Vision. WOW, it is so huge and getting bigger. Its only rising a couple inches a day, at this rate my dogs will be safe for another week. Another week and I'll be under water here, starting to make serious decisions about what I'm going to do here.

[S Landreth]

Today the National Dog Show was held. A nice-looking bulldog won the top prize.

I wouldn’t own one. They have health issues.

And this year’s winner in the Pound Dog Group went to my daughter’s dog, again.

Daughter told me she selected the dog because it was so ugly no one would adopt it.

[Mendip]

^ The breeding of flat-faced dogs has been made illegal in Norway due to the health problems the dogs face. It has been classed as cruelty and rightly so, imo.

[Loy Toy]

My Pug had breathing problems her entire life.

Probably why she slept 23 hours of the day

[S Landreth]

The breeding of flat-faced dogs has been made illegal in Norway due to the health problems the dogs face.

My Pug had breathing problems her entire life.

Years ago, I was at an outside Dog Show event in Thailand. It wasn’t April hot outside but it was warm.

A guy was walking his three bulldogs from one area to another under a large canvas tent (open sides). One dog hit the floor and wasn’t moving (blacking out?). The owner picked the dog up and started rubbing the dog’s chest. After a few seconds the dog did wake but was panting heavily.

[malmomike77]

The Kennel Club have a lot to answer for in allowing these characteristics to be identified to pedigree breeds

[helge]

I saw a couple of Siberian Huskies in Khon Kaen.

Talk about cruelty


Not so much because of the heat, but how can you keep a dog in Thailand, that can't bark ?

[Mendip]

^ Siberian Huskies can't bark?

I used to keep basenjis and I thought they were the only barkless dog?