Thread: Would a pig spare a bullet for a suffering woof woof?

I treated myself to a big fat steak & kidney pie with french fries and beans at this secret oasis I know behind an apartment I don't live in because it's 12,000 a month and I can't afford it - anyway, I'm taking the shortcut back to my soi, past the market what was being dismantled, and I hear this heartbreaking whine, and it's the dog I have seen before.

It's your average breed of soi dog (whatever that breed is) - it's got a tumor on it's neck, a maggot infested arsehole and it's legs are completely fucked and it must only be a teenager (in dog years) - it normally stands at the end of the soi like a newborn giraffe, it's bow legs looking like they were once broken - all four of them, and healed in a stupid position.

On this occasion the dog is emerging from under one of those crappy metal folding tables like what you get at pink tissue restaurants all over the country that are always painted red or blue; and as usual the dog is looking sad, unloved and confused and this time there's a small black and white cat, like Postman Pat's cat, and it's literally next to the dog looking at it condescendingly as if to say "You're fucking pathetic" and despite being a cat lover, I'm on the dogs side and I just want to see the thing out of it's misery but what can I do?

I think about calling November Rain but then realize that she's in the UK and that even if she wasn't, she'd be down in Hua Hin and it wouldn't be much use. I want to put on some latex gloves and pat the dog on the head whilst administering a painless yet lethal injection that will send it to doggy heaven but I have no such apparatus.

I look around and I see a triangular lump of concrete by a gutter and consider striking it on the head a few times but can't bring myself to do it and by this time the orange vests are being nosey so I just fuck off and on the way home I wonder if, had excreta been present (a policeman) - there would have been any chance of him doing something decent for once in his life and shooting the mutt in the head. I would have been willing to pay for the bullet.

What does one do in such a situation? ...I feel sad.

Since I have been back in Bangkok working I have seen these poor shocking disease ridden dogs all over the place including the so called up-market tourist areas.

I don't understand the Buddhist religion but why they don't do something about putting these poor creatures out of their misery escapes me.

Not only is it visually upsetting but dangerous to the general public and with regard to health issues not to mention the number of traffic accidents they cause.

In Cairo if there was a mangy mutt wandering around and a policeman saw it he would give it a crack on the head with his night stick , or shoot it if it was a big one, and carry on strolling down the street ( this was in the 70's) give 10 piastres to the first street cleaner he saw and they got rid of it .

Bucket truck.

^ What's a bucket truck?

There is a lady who always takes soy dogs to the vet we used to go. She brings them in the back of her pick up, usually in a blanket to avoid being bitten. She pays, the vet takes care of them.

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

^ What's a bucket truck?

Apparently some people go around certain areas collecting up unwanted stray dogs in exchange for plastic buckets (sounds bizarre I know but life is that way sometimes). The myth continues that the dogs are transported away to the northeast of the country where they are introduced to the Thai version of that Korean sport "Wokking the dog".

Instead of offering to pay for the bullet just slip 200bt under the dogs collar and then whistle the rozzer over. He's bound to shoot it for 200bt.

Originally Posted by Perota

the vet takes care of them.

Is that mafioso code?

Is there a stray dog pick up service / humane society I could pay to come get all the homeless dogs from my village. There are about 15 and I would pay 3k baht to anyone who would get rid of them for me.

Maybe a Bangkok Humane Society link ?

This is a serious request.

Originally Posted by chitown

Is there a stray dog pick up service / humane society I could pay to come get all the homeless dogs from my village. There are about 15 and I would pay 3k baht to anyone who would get rid of them for me.

Maybe a Bangkok Humane Society link ?

This is a serious request.

keep the scrotums as they make for excellent palms for golf gloves.

^ No there isn't - and I lamented this fact to a Thai man and he said, "Would a policeman in your country shoot it in the same situation?".

Just my luck, eight years here and I finally meet a Thai man with a samong!

Fair play to him though, good point!

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

^ No there isn't - and I lamented this fact to a Thai man and he said, "Would a policeman in your country shoot it in the same situation?".

Just my luck, eight years here and I finally meet a Thai man with a samong!

Fair play to him though, good point!

Didn't you tell him that we'd just call the RSPCA and they'd deal with it?

in most civilized countries, the dogs will be put to sleep

in third world countries, there are other priorities, and the soi dogs are left to rot

Why the baby language?

Its a dog, not a 'woof woof'.

Originally Posted by The_Ghost_Of_The_Moog

Why the baby language?

Its a dog, not a 'woof woof'.

I guess it's because this is Thailand, cats are meows ergo dogs must be woofs.

btw cats are meows also here in VN, dogs are tasty if a little chewy.

British kids say 'woof woof!' to denote the speech of a dog but a Thai child will insist that the correct sound is 'hong hong!' - which it isn't at all, it's 'woof woof' and pigs go 'Oink Oink' though Thais will say 'Oot Oot' - ask your kids.

Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp

British kids say 'woof woof!' to denote the speech of a dog but a Thai child will insist that the correct sound is 'hong hong!' - which it isn't at all, it's 'woof woof' and pigs go 'Oink Oink' though Thais will say 'Oot Oot' - ask your kids.

Obviously they don't have a version of "Old McSomchai had a farm".