Bangkok's campaign to sterilize/vaccinate/microchip stray dogs

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From ABC News Online -

http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s557430.htm

 

Thursday, May 16, 2002. Posted: 19:35:05 (AEDT)

 

Volunteer catchers to take bite out of Bangkok dog

problem

 

Authorities in Thailand's capital will pay volunteer

dog-catchers eight baht (40 cents) per captured stray

dog in an effort to sterilise and vaccinate the pesky

animals.

 

Bangkok Deputy Governor Prapan Kitisin says the

volunteers will be dispatched to all 50 of the

capital's districts.

 

" We will offer trained volunteers eight baht for each

dog, " he said.

 

" The city needs to ask for cooperation from volunteers

because we lack the staff to catch the dogs and vets

to sterilise them. "

 

The volunteers will form part of a recently-approved

campaign to sterilise, vaccinate and microchip the

120,000 potentially rabid dogs roaming Bangkok's

streets.

 

" Without sterilisation, the stray dog population in

the city would increase by 30,000 yearly, " Mr Prapan

said.

 

Stray dogs have been a perennial problem in the

capital, highlighted last September when a rabid dog

went on the rampage at a market and bit dozens of

people before a security guard beat it to death.

 

Around 350,000 people across Thailand were bitten by

dogs considered to be potentially infected with rabies

last year.

 

A cull of the unwanted animals is deemed unacceptable

in the predominantly Buddhist country.

 

 

 

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