Updates On 25th Aug 2012

Recently Published in “The Nation” newspaper.
NAKHON PHANOM: — Residents of a Nakhon Phanom tambon have set up checkpoints at night to prevent gangs involved in dog thefts whose activities have increased over the past few months, Suriya Chaomoo, headman of tambon Kuruku said on Monday .

The dogs were being snatched between 1 and 4am, he said, adding that most of the villagers who had lost their pets to thieves lived near the road.

The gangs generally rode in pickups with two men carrying a stick with a noose. When they saw a dog, they would place the noose round its neck. “They are so accurate, they can catch the dog while the vehicle is still moving,” he said.

The tambon is on the way to the province’s Tha Lae district, which is known for selling dog meat.

Last year, about 10 dogs were stolen from 10 villages in Tambon Kuruku.

The villagers thus decided to set up four checkpoints around the tambon to block vehicles entering and leaving.

Somsamai Thawan, a village headman of Nong Sai, said he had witnessed first-hand an attempt to steal the dogs last year. “I heard sounds of car engine in the middle of a night, so I waited at my fence. When the driver of the pickup saw me, he accelerated and tried to hit me. I narrowly escaped by running back into the house but a man with a noose on the back of the vehicle tried to hook me. Fortunately I escaped,” he said.

Villager Somjai Budwongse, said her house is close to the road, so she kept her two dogs in the house to prevent the gangsters from snatching them.

Pairat Pratumsuwan, Nakhon Phanom’s livestock official, said a total of 1,889 dogs are currently in the quarantine station while 1,683 had died and 1,345 had been adopted.

– The Nation 2012-08-20
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