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Home » News from Thailand » Six dead in rabies outbreak: Bangkok thinks about dog tax
In response to the recent rabies outbreak, Governor Aswin of Bangkok is considering the idea of levying a dog tax. The Department of Livestock Development is working on a model ordinance that will be adopted by the state capital. The tax also applies to cats, according to Permanent Secretary Jedsada of the Health Ministry.
Director Apai of the Department of Livestock Development thinks that the tax cannot be introduced in the short term because it is a complicated process that requires a lot of organization.
Founder and director of the Thai animal protection organization Roger Lohanan is in favor of a dog tax, but thinks registration is more effective than levying a tax. There may be a legal measure for this.
Six people have already died of a rabies infection. Yesterday, a 14-year-old girl died in Buri Ram. According to Governor Aswin, vaccination is in full swing in Bangkok. A micro-chip has been implanted in at least 30.000 dogs in Bangkok.
Source: Bangkok Post
Dog tax is a typical modern Western achievement, to which everyone in a rapidly developing Thailand should be able to assert the right to be confronted with it.
Equal treatment of dogs and cats in this context is a heart-warming innovation that would make the scheme the most progressive in the world.
A hardship clause can be formulated temporarily for cats that are demonstrably permanently indoors on a leash, until Thai animal protection organizations have completely banned this cat-degrading method of animal abuse.
The other side of this coin is that a number of owners of these pets will deliberately relegate their property to street dogs or cats, which animals will then face an uncertain future.
Undoubtedly sufficient reason to set up dozens of new philanthropic foundations in the Netherlands alone to raise these animals. to track down, to 'rescue', to transfer to the Netherlands, and to sell them there via Facebook and other tear-jerking media.
While we are already being flooded by dogs impulsively taken from the less civilized EU countries out of intense pure animal love.
Moreover, when I cycle around here in the Netherlands, I do not want to be attacked by dogs from Thailand that refuse to adapt. Just like people from Thailand, those animals should at least successfully follow an integration course, and should have sufficient command of the Dutch language to pass a test for the obedience diploma in Dutch.
It cannot be the case that in a civilized country that can count itself among the richest countries in the world, dumped Thai dogs are welcome by invitation, but dumped Thai people are not.
I suspect there is some frustration here 😉 but there what you are doing is comparing dogs to humans.
You should know that admitting immigrants in NL is first and foremost based on the future financial picture or the benefit/cost analysis?
Unfortunately, a few years ago the government established that for Thai immigrants there is a negative benefit item.
In the case of dogs, it is highly questionable whether it costs the taxpayer even a penny.
Now it is not entirely clear what exactly you mean by dumped Thai people, but dumped in NL, if they do not comply with the rules, they will get the same lid on the nose as the foreigner in TH and dumped in TH, see the negative benefit analysis above.
It is always nice to see that we see our country as civilized, but it is very questionable whether that is really the case. Unless all the news we are presented with is all fake news
The solution to reducing the rabies problem can never be the introduction of a dog/cat tax, as it is precisely the stray dogs and cats that are infected that do not have a registered caretaker.
It is a community concern that there is currently a rabies problem and therefore the primary responsibility of the Ministry of Public Health to ensure the health of all citizens.
I seem to remember that in the early 90s the government had big plans to rid the country of all stray dogs and cats and that is why there are dogs / cats with collars around, but that is, to put it mildly, due to its size was not quite successful.
A solution could be to chip, vaccinate and possibly make infertile all dogs / cats. The unchipped should then be declared outlaws to catch them away.
And right there is a problem; Vietnam, Cambodia and South Korea, among others, are quite hungry for imports, but because of the legislation in Thailand this is not possible and even punishable.
A War on Dogs also solves something as history shows that like the War on Drugs the result is minimal.
The challenge is to find a solution somewhere in that field of tension.
The first video reports have already arrived that in Nakhon Si Thammarat at a temple a group of dogs were poisoned by probably government dog catchers (??!!) Poisoning rudely with a 2-hour death struggle and then also with the approval of a temple I think is very bad go far.
I myself own a born street dog and agree that something needs to be done, but hopefully in a slightly more animal-friendly way.
I don't see how the problem of infected dogs will be solved, I just think that there will be even more stray dogs because the owner cannot or does not want to pay the tax. It may sound harsh even though I am a dog lover, but I think culling is the only solution, I feel sorry for my soul when I see those animals walking on the beach, bald, broken skin, always looking for a bite to eat, too dirty to look at , and one litter after another, and probably sick.
The best way, of course, is to try to neuter and sterilize as many dogs and cats as possible, so that stray animals do not have a new litter every year. Here at HMR we had a project where the animals were captured in our resort and treated free of charge by a number of veterinarians in training. This also applies to our run-down tomcat.
2 years ago my husband was also bitten by a stray dog on a bike ride, to hospital for treatment, injections, very expensive, insurance paid, but I think the average Thai can't afford these treatments. Cost a few hundred euros.