These caged dogs were saved after Thai police arrested the three men.
Published: 14/08/2011
Bangkok Post
Nakhon Phanom administrative officers and police on Thursday arrested three suspects _ two Thais and a Vietnamese _ in separate operations near the Thai-Laos border.
The authorities found the first six-wheeled truck carrying about 600 live dogs on a road in Nakhon Phanom's Na Thom district.
Police seized the dogs and trucks and detained the two suspects, a Thai identified as Montree Tanklang and a 30-year-old Vietnamese man. Police later stopped another six-wheeler carrying about 1,200 live dogs in Si Songkhram district and arrested Noppadon Chaiwangrat, 40.
Nakhon Phanom governor Roengsak Mahawinitchaimontree said the dogs were being transported from nearby Sakon Nakhon province and were expected to cross the Mekong River, destined for Vietnam.
Police yesterday pressed six charges against the three suspects.
The charges range from illegal transport of animals, unlicensed trade in animals, the transport of dogs to an area under rabies monitoring, cruelty to animals, not having dogs vaccinated and lacking documents to certify their vaccination.
The dogs are being treated at the Nakhon Phanom Animal Quarantine Station. All of them were fatigued and weakened and many were wounded.
Some succumbed to the terrible conditions during trafficking and died. Livestock officials were seen carrying dead dogs for burial yesterday. Earlier, 119 of the dogs had died both through suffocation in the cramped cages or when they were thrown from the back of the trucks as the alleged traffickers sped away from officers, says an official of the Livestock Development Department.
The quarantine station yesterday asked for donations of dog food.
People who learned of the news came to the station and gave donations throughout the day.
Pol Gen Aswin Kwanmuang, adviser to the Royal Thai Police, and his wife donated 10,000 baht.
4 comments:
Cambodian Govt should stop khmer people from eating and abused Dogs/Cats in cambodia...Dogs/Cats are best men friendly and family member too...I urge our govt to ban people from abuse Dogs and Cats in cambodia..
Cambodian law must applied and protect animals rights the same as human rights...Punish people who abused animals and eating, selling animals meat...
Dog meat is a delicacy for the North Vietnamese people. People who are older than 30 years old would remember that when Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia in 1979, we can hardly find any dogs roaming the streets. All were killed and eaten by Viet troops.
Dam, it a good business. It is more profit than raising pigs. I thought they stop eating dogs because economically they are better than before.
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