Sunday 7 October 2007

A Dog's Life

A few months ago, I posted a video of a neglected stray dog in YouTube and totally forgotten about it.

After some time, I checked the video and it received a number of unfavorable comments (and links to a number of animal cruelty caring for your pets websites), in what I perceive as a total LACK OF understanding in the situation and the cultural differences.

Here are some of the comments (unedited):

"WTF dude that is sooo mean!!!"

"man, you shouldnt own a dog, if you cant be responsible get him/her to a vet. Not impressed at all.."


"This is horrible. What kind of sick and cruel person would leave this aninmal to suffer?"

"that is just plain horrible to leave a dog to suffer!!
what the hell is wrong with you?
take him to the vet, but DON'T make him suffer like that.
Just becasuse he can't speak, doesn't mean he doesn't have the right to be treated right."

OK. First of all, learn to spell properly. Secondly, its a stray dog and therefore it doesn't belong to me. Besides, someone was aware of the situation and was trying to help it.

It's also obvious that they are not aware that stray dogs in a 'less than desirable' condition are a common sight in this part of the world.

I live a culture where generating the next winning 4D (lottery) number takes precedence over pro-actively caring for stray (and potentially dangerous) dogs. There are limitations to what the general public can do to curb the problem.

The dog catching competition proposed a few months ago here in SemuaPunBolehLand could reduce the number of strays in the streets, but was too controversial.

Seeing neglected stray dogs roaming the streets of Malaysia remains part of our everyday lives.

One thing to bear in mind, the strays here do NOT look as if they were fed an 8-course buffet for the past 6 months......



And in this part of the world, the dogs - strays or not, certainly do NOT receive $12 million.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

dumb americans and their peta crap.
if they really cared they would do something about it other than flapping their jaws.