Comments on: Hounded dogs

By: truth

truth — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:37:55 +0000

Controlling dogs will always be difficult in Bhutan. In order for that to change , our culture might need a drastic change too.
In most western societies, dogs are treated as family members, they sleep inside, take them to veterinary hospitals and spend 1,000s of dollars on them, they feed them seperate food, not leftover like we do in Bhutan, they have dogs toys, tehy take them for walk, also getting a nice puppy is expensive.
They also have a lot of non-profit animal rescue leagues, that looks after stray animals and have them up for adption.
Sad to say this, the only solution in Bhutan might be to castrate and fix every one of them or kill them in a humane way.( The hurts and wounded ones).

By: Tshering Tobgay

Tshering Tobgay — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:20:14 +0000

Dear KISA: Bhutan Observer reported that the government has a Nu 46 million programme to ‘Catch, Neuter, Vaccinate and Release’ stray dogs. Hopefully, that works. But our dog pounds are in a shameful state. And, if at all possible, you should get involved. Just show up and ask how you can help. tshering

By: KISA

KISA — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:31:36 +0000

I would love to help out, if I ever can. More staff, more space, better education of the caretakers all point to more money. Would we be able to raise by donations? Is there some ways to make it more sustainable – like breeding programs (…though only for mongrels I guess), distribution as pets? And there should be ongoing population control methods all the time. I believe, though not an expert, there are various way of controlling population (including condoms!) all of which could be allowed. How about also advertising and providing royalty free trip to Bhutan for any interested veterinarians to come and perform surgical birth control methods?

By: 10000eyes

10000eyes — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:42:07 +0000

where did dogs migrated? i think from the rural areas.dogs were confined in the tight closure where there is no enough space for them.. how many space do a dog need? i have no idea but i am sure space provided the closure is not enough for them.
government have initiated it to minimize dogs population,other is cross- breed and sell to the interest buyers.
however if we look at the situation in the dog’s compound you will see malnourished and all dogs wearing black leather jacket. everything is possible in Bhutan- pigs can fly and dogs can wear leather jacket. how wonderful is our country.
dog migrated from the rural areas to the urban center because of modernization- dogs want to eat cake,pizza, chinese, japanese thi food etc. they were tried of ama datsi and kharang.
similarly our rural friends are migrating to the urban areas because of hardship in rural areas- no road, no light ect- unbalanced social economic development.
what could be there fate- what our government is doing to curb this issue. at last they will make rural people’s compound where all the rural friends will be kept by the government like that of dogs…than people will start to wear dogs skin……not the leather jackets…. i will also fall in this category coz i am compound out…. my home will be rural areas compund….