Bangkok Post, 11/13/03: Dog dealers bark too loudly

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THE BANGKOK POST Thursday 13 November 2003

 

Dog dealers bark too loudly

 

Three northeastern men were arrested yesterday while roaming this

provincial town and offering to barter plasticware for dogs, which

they planned to sell to a meat trader.

 

Kalong Imboonsu, 56, and his two unidentified associates were

arrested while riding in their pick-up truck and airing their offer

through a loudspeaker. Thirteen dogs were found in a cage mounted on

the truck.

 

Mr Kalong, from Sakon Nakhon's Kusuman district, said he was

gathering dogs for a meat trader in the Northeast, whom he did not

identify.

 

The three men were yesterday charged with unlicensed trading in

animals.

 

Meanwhile, police rescued more than 800 dogs in Nakhon Phanom's Tha

Uthen district just before they were transported across the Mekong

river to Laos.

 

The market price in Laos and Vietnam was about 200 baht per head,

police said.

 

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