Dogs
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Why Thais keep dogs. All my neighbours have dogs. Fon has five. Generally, Thais won’t neuter their pets. https://www.mattowensrees.com/2025/11/03/why-veterinary-surgeons-face-problems A government initiative, in collaboration with European veterinary surgeons, has not been as successful as was hoped. UK vets get disillusioned with the slow spaying and castrating speed of local vets. They begin to get bored and lose…
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Why veterinary surgeons face problems. Yee is a very experienced vet and is popular with all her clients, most of whom of course are Thai. She has built up a successful small animal practice and she shows a genuine love for her clients’ pets. Her charges are reasonable, she makes a healthy profit but it…
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Don’t worry about the technical term projected vilification—today’s episode in the Behind the Bamboo Curtain series describes Suda’s fury when her husband hit her dog, and how she dealt with it. I was surprised some weeks ago when I read a post on Suda’s Facebook page, just beneath a picture of her son’s pet. Today…
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Beyond the Bamboo Curtain. Today’s short true story of life in Thailand. There are many dogs on the rural roads of Thailand. Most Thais have dogs roaming in the garden or in the nearby soi (lane). They may be caged or chained at night. Only a few Thais treat their dogs as pets. They generally…
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An example of Thai workmanship from the Beyond the Bamboo Curtain series. Had some builders around last week to build some gates to stop the dogs wandering off. They did a good job erecting the posts firmly in position and upright. The welding on the gate frames had been carefully done. Most Thai workers miss…
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What do readers think of today’s episode of Behind the Bamboo Curtain. We’d all like to know your views in the comment box below. Today, Sunantaa told me that Kitaloo, her one year old puppy, had been killed in a road accident. He had escaped from their fenced garden. Unusually for a Thai, she was…
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Last night’s Thai get-together was one of those laid-back, food-filled evenings. Everyone brought something—mostly northern dishes, homemade and proudly shared. The karaoke machine sat quietly at first, but after a few drinks, it found its groove. So did we. I rolled out of bed late this morning, still humming a luk thung tune I couldn’t…
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Enjoyable Thai party last night. Everyone brought some homemade northern Thai food to share. And the karaoke really got going after a few drinks. Got up late this morning. Had to go into Chiangmai for some garden plants. Came back and there was no sign of my dog. Where had Talley gone this time? Cycled…
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King Bhumibol was so against any cruelty to dogs that he wrote a book about Tongdaeng, a mongrel he rescued from a slum. The government later imprisoned a Thai man, under Thailand’s strict lèse majesté laws, for posting sarcastic comments about the dog online. Ten true stories explaining how dogs interact in our lives in…
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But Not in Thailand. Take a look at this short true story. Enjoyable Thai party last night. Everyone brought some homemade northern Thai food to share. And the karaoke really got going after a few drinks. Got up late this morning.Had to go into Chiangmai for some garden plants. Came back and there was no…