A sad tale of 2 best mates

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PLAYFUL PETS

Published: 9/09/2010 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: News

AYUTTHAYA : It was a heart-breaking scene ... Taew, a one-year-old male long-tailed macaque was caressing the face of the lifeless body of Suea, a two-year-old mixed breed dog.

Taew, a one-year-old long-tailed macaque, clings to the lifeless body of Suea, a two-year-old male mongrel, as Pol Sgt Somyos Phiewkham, the traffic policeman who owns the animals, looks on.

Taew wanted to wake his best friend _ to play together as usual.

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Mr Q

Discussion 21 : 11/09/2010 at 01:44 PM21
Mostly Thailand people are lack of self-awareness for caring the animals. Someone who abuses animal with cruelty, is much worse than animal behaviour.
maura wiull

Discussion 20 : 11/09/2010 at 09:32 AM20
Gee, over here if you make a threat and then that threat actually takes place their is a consequence. I highly doubt that this is a coincidence. How simple are you?. Give me a break defending anyone who would poison a dog. Absolutely sadistic.
Bubba

Discussion 19 : 09/09/2010 at 05:25 PM19
TiT #17: He said...she said...they said....

That is not proof. You assume one cop is telling the truth and the other is "the killer". Quoting someone is not proof.

Secondly, if someone threatens to do something and then it happens, well, that could also be coincidence. Maybe other people, neighbors or not had reason (in their mind) to do this.

I find this article a very strange one in fact, almost taking sides in a personal dispute.
Bubba

Discussion 18 : 09/09/2010 at 05:20 PM18
TOPCAT #14: I do not mean to be confrontational at all, and assume you are an animal lover. I love animals too and have had dogs all my life.

But Thailand is not such a bad place for dogs at all. the streets are filled with dogs and they are rarely abused, except the occasional poisonings. Dogs are pretty much at home in the streets.

If I were a dog I would fare more prefer roaming the streets on bangkok or other cities here than a poodle with a ribbon in its here and having lost 90% of all dog soul.
TiT

Discussion 17 : 09/09/2010 at 03:21 PM17
Bubba # 13
"Pol Sgt Somyos Phiewkham, 36, an officer with the Phra Khao station in Bang Ban district, who owns the monkey and the dog, said his neighbour, also a policeman, had previously threatened to poison both pets."

So basically threatening to kill the pets is like threatening to destroy any goods belonging to the neighbor. But I guess most people would be more shocked if he had damaged the neighbor's car than for killing an animal!

Who ever killed that dog proved himself to be worth less than an animal!
Bubba

Discussion 16 : 09/09/2010 at 03:04 PM16
TOPCAT #14: I do not mean to be confrontational at all, and assume you are an animal lover. I love animals too and have had dogs all my life.

But Thailand is not such a bad place for dogs at all. the streets are filled with dogs and they are rarely abused, except the occasional poisonings. Dogs are pretty much at home in the streets.

If I were a dog I would fare more prefer roaming the streets on bangkok or other cities here than a poodle with a ribbon in its here and having lost 90% of all dog soul.
This Gusted

Discussion 15 : 09/09/2010 at 12:38 PM15
Comments 6 (Dog Lover) and 9 (Hippolite) in my opinion say it all.

Whatever is the truth behind this story, fact is that most monkeys have a more loving and peaceful heart than many people.
topcat_BK

Discussion 14 : 09/09/2010 at 12:00 PM14
Even if the poisoning is proven and the poisoner could be positively identified, there would be no consequences for the culprit, since animal welfare legislation is virtually non-existent here.
One way by which to judge a society is how it treats animals. By that standard, Thailand has a long way to go, de jure and de facto.
Bubba

Discussion 13 : 09/09/2010 at 11:38 AM13
TIT #10: How is he guilty of threatening his neighbor? I read the article a second time after reading your comment.

We have dogs run lose in the neighborhood and once even attacked my wife and me. I finally started taking a walking cane along and one evening whacked him over the head when he snapped at my leg.

I have suggested to my wife going to try to reason with the neighbors to keep their dogs in line. My wife talked me out of it suggesting the owners might kill me.

When I asked her how people can live with these dogs terrorizing the area she said eventually somebody gets fed up and poisons the animal. That's what happened, the leader got whacked, and not by a stick.
Chris Wright

Discussion 12 : 09/09/2010 at 11:13 AM12
You need to get some laws against cruelty to animals in Thailand. Animals have means-ends reasoning; they have emotions; they feel pain; they can feel happy and also suffer psychologically. They need to be protected by law against the inhumanity of humans. Get some laws and then prosecute those who harm animals. The Thai jails would be full in a week.

Thai people hold great store by morality. The problem is, it is very common in Thailand for people to only ever apply it to other people, never to themselves. Rather than trying to follow the moral code themselves, they just use it as a weapon to benefit themselves when other people behave badly.

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