On 20th May 2011, H.O.P.E. had accompanied Mr. Tan Sek Khang to lodged a police report against the Central Johor Bahru Municipal Council (MBJBT) workers that had shot his dog on the street and enter his house compound without their permission to dragged out the dog and killed it. Over 30 police reports had been lodged over this matter in Selangor, Penang and Johor but this is not enough. We need more people to voice out on this matter. This was happened on the 5th May 2011 at Taman Johor Jaya.
We were concerned about how could the MBJBT workers could just simply shot a dog when there's people around the area. What if they accidentally shot on people??? Isn't it dangerous?? How professional are they?? The worst thing is they even shot the dog in front of a little child that is Mr. Tan's son.
Mr. Tan said that, "he's not fighting for any compensation, he's just want a justice for his dog and for his family". We can’t just let this matter off. If Mr.Tan had violated any local council by-laws, he should been given warning or compounded instead of having MBJBT workers to shoot the dog in front of the child. This case had caused mentally disturbed to Mr. Tan's son.
H.O.P.E. person in-charged had went to MBJBT to check out on this matter. They had denied that it's their mistake and they even stated that whatever they had done is all according to Akta 1976. They did not break the rules. They even said that it was Mr.Tan’s wife who allowed them to go in to their house. In fact, they were lying. We've checked with Mr.Tan's wife and she insisted she DID NOT give them permission to enter the house. The neighbours around the area had witnessed that they had barged in to Mr.Tan house as if there’s no law in Malaysia.
The authority does not even bother to look into this matter because there's no one is being hurt or shot in this incident. If we do not insist to pursue on this matter, sooner or later they will be more and more house pets and strays will be shoot by them because they think that the public could not do anything to them. Then, it will be too late for us to voice out. What if they accidentally shoot on people??? Will they take it so lightly??? Please don’t let the similar incident happen again. We have to put a STOP to this matter as soon as possible. The MBJBT workers that had shot on Mr. Tan’s dog must be punished.
Therefore, we as a Malaysian we must be united and be brave to fight for the animal rights. If we do not pursue on this matter, more and more innocent animals will be killed by them and they can just simply barged in to people private compound to killed their beloved pets.
“To you he is just a dog, to him you are everything”. There’s still many other better ways to control the numbers of strays. Killing does not solve the problems. By spaying or neutering, it can prevent the animals from continue to breed.