Guest guest Posted January 13, 2005 Report Share Posted January 13, 2005 ***************************Advertisement*************************** eCentral - Your Entertainment Guide http://www.star-ecentral.com ***************************************************************** This message was forwarded to you by yitzeling. Comment from sender: This article is from The Star Online (http://thestar.com.my) URL: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/1/13/asia/9882361 & sec=asia ________________________ Thursday January 13, 2005 Starving stray dogs raiding morgues PHANG NGA (Thailand): At a Buddhist temple used as a morgue and elsewhere in tsunami disaster zones, hungry stray dogs have been feeding on victims & #039; corpses, even managing to get into body bags to do so, relief workers say. It has become such a problem that a group of Thai veterinarians, armed with tranquilizer guns, has been given the task of capturing the strays. Aid workers in India have used real bullets. & #147;The dogs are starving and they just eat any meat, & #039; & #039; said Dr Kiartisak Rojnirandorn of Thailand & #039;s Foundation for Stray Dogs. More than 60 dogs have been seized, including 40 around the Yan Yao Buddhist temple, which has become a makeshift mortuary here, where more than 4,000 people have died. Some 2,000 bodies are being kept in the temple while undergoing autopsies and other identification attempts. Most have been kept refrigerated, but some newly found ones sometimes lay on the open ground pending a post-mortem exam. The vets & #039; goal is to make the area affected by the tsunami a & #147;stray-dog free zone. & #039; & #039; They plan to send the captured dogs to a sanctuary in western Thailand. Before the tsunami, most probably weren & #039;t strays but house pets whose masters were killed in the disaster. & #147;These dogs are smart. They can unzip body bags and eat the corpses inside, & #039; & #039; said Tohboon Sappasri, a Thai volunteer. David Reinecker, a US-based animal behaviourist and professional dog trainer, said he was not surprised by the reports. & #147;We must not forget that dogs are carnivore animals and they follow the scent trails of blood, & #039; & #039; Reinecker said in an e-mail interview. & #147;Put simply, their predatory instinct is pushing them to search for & #039;food. & #039; The dogs that survived the tsunami are going through a period of stress, fear and trauma. & #148; Animal rights activists said dogs would eat human flesh only as a last resort. & #147;There have been instances in the past when dogs have become desperate enough to approach human corpses when there are no other options left, & #039; & #039; said Susan Sherwin, of Framingham, Massachusetts-based World Society for the Protection of Animals. & #150; AP <p> ________________________ Your one-stop information portal: The Star Online http://thestar.com.my http://biz.thestar.com.my http://classifieds.thestar.com.my http://cards.thestar.com.my http://search.thestar.com.my http://star-motoring.com http://star-space.com http://star-jobs.com http://star-ecentral.com http://star-techcentral.com 1995-2004 Star Publications (Malaysia) Bhd. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of Star Publications is prohibited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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