Pet Registration Bill To Be Rethought After Public Fury And Worries Over Fallout
Pet Registration Bill To Be Rethought After Public Fury And Worries Over Fallout
From Nation Multimedia
By Kornrawee Panyasuppakun
A bill approved by the Cabinet making it mandatory to register dogs and cats was derailed yesterday after pet lovers cried foul over the high fee for the registration document, and threatened to abandon their pets.
The bill, which got the Cabinet nod on Wednesday, allows municipalities to charge a maximum fee of Bt450 – Bt50 for registration, Bt100 for a book of identity and Bt300 for identification tools such as microchips.
It sets the maximum fine for violation at Bt25,000. However, the bill does not specify where the money will go or how it would be spent to improve animal welfare.
“We don’t object if the government charges registration fees, but the amount must be appropriate and the agency must explain how the income is spent,” wrote the Watchdog Thailand page.
“Personally, I think it [the registration bill] doesn’t tackle the problems, but makes them worse. Who will want to adopt stray cats and dog?” wrote the admin of Moh Maew Yak Bok Tard Maew Facebook Page (What a cat doctor wants to tell cat lovers).
The pricey fees will discourage owners from adopting pets and may even encourage some to abandon their dogs and cats on the street or in the care of temples to avoid paying the fees, according to comments in social media in response to the bill.
Bill to be reconsidered
“If the bill was passed into the law, more dogs would be abandoned, uncared for, starve and spaying or neutering is harder. The dogs will also be at greater risk of rabies," said Dr Thiravat Hemachudha, a rabies expert and professor at Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Medicine. "Instead of charging high fees from people who help take care of unwanted dogs and cats out of kindness, the government should ask for their cooperation to get the animals spayed and neutered as well as vaccinated for rabies," he said.
Following the public outcry, the Cabinet will reconsider the bill.
At its core, the bill intends to regulate family pets and reduce the number of strays, but the Cabinet promised not to make registration a burden for people.
"Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha was worried that if the registration move led to people abandoning their pets, the municipality, the City Hall, or the Agriculture Ministry would not be able to take care of these unwanted pets,” Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said yesterday.
The Livestock Development Department agreed to take the bill back for reviewing, as it might create too much burden for the people, director-general Sorawit Thaneto said yesterday. The bill, in fact, aims to prevent pet owners from abandoning their pets and to provide welfare for the unwanted ones. With such a law, families would be required by law to provided good care for their pets, and thus reduce the number of stray dogs and cats, he explained.
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It beggers belief how any one in there right mind could think this was a good idea. Let alone the ones running the country.
If this had been passed without question the streets would have been awash with dogs and cats.
The complete opposite of their objective.
Makes you wonder how they manage to get out of bed in the mornings.Are the ruling class really that out of touch with the realities in this country.
If this had been passed without question the streets would have been awash with dogs and cats.
The complete opposite of their objective.
Makes you wonder how they manage to get out of bed in the mornings.Are the ruling class really that out of touch with the realities in this country.
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Thais will admit to owning a dog that gets injured or run over by a car/scooter.
Thais will deny owning a dog that bites someone or causes other damage.
Its the people who require regulation, not the animals.
Thais will deny owning a dog that bites someone or causes other damage.
Its the people who require regulation, not the animals.
Ashli Babbitt -- SAY HER NAME!
Re: Pet Registration Bill To Be Rethought After Public Fury And Worries Over Fallout
every homeowner seems to have 4-5 of the pests.
often free to run out in the street sprinting after your motocy. how do schoolkids make it home safe
often free to run out in the street sprinting after your motocy. how do schoolkids make it home safe
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I think there are about 11-13 dogs in the Wat behind our house.. None have been neutered, I don't know if any have been vaccinated against rabies, and more get dumped there periodically.. Several years ago I saw a Tuk-tuk pull up to the gate and 9, yes nine puppies were thrown out along with their 3 legged mother... Seems like there was less of a problem when the old bucket trucks used to swap "buckets for dogs" (with nearly every truck have Sakon Nakhon plates).. Rising incomes also means people seem to buy more pets to include pocket puppies and other designer dogs...
Dave
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i passed a temple over near t-bar yesterday afternoon around 4 pm? for some reason they
were ringing bell. set off what sounded like a
full blown dog kennel. had to be 100+ dogs
were ringing bell. set off what sounded like a
full blown dog kennel. had to be 100+ dogs
Re: Pet Registration Bill To Be Rethought After Public Fury And Worries Over Fallout
Yup. Chip and barcode tattoo 'em while you're at it.
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I have three of the pests, only one is microchipped because a, there’s no central register here, my Doberman is still registered in the UK/EU despite it being a requirement of the Thai government before I brought her here and b, as far as I know there’s no one in Udon that can microchip the animals anyway. The infrastructure needs to come before the implementation.
The forest was shrinking daily but the trees kept voting for the axe as its handle was made of wood and they thought it was one of them.
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whatever happened to the heralded opening of a dog pound/shelter out near Non Soong? The announced concept was to send dog catchers around neighborhoods including temples and scoop up strays then take them out to the 150 dog pound in Non Soong where they would be neutered, vaccinated then after recovering returned to where they'd been found.. Mass neutering and vaccination would at least cut the expansion of strays in time...
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I wonder why the Livestock Development Department are the ones that wrote this rubbish bit of legislation rather than the Public Health Department that do such a stellar knee-jerk every time someone says 'dengue'?
Unless of course there's some long-term plans to monetize the Sakhon Nakhon meat trade?
Unless of course there's some long-term plans to monetize the Sakhon Nakhon meat trade?
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and i doubt yours are free to run out in street aftervincemunday wrote: I have three of the pests, only one is microchipped
every rubbish collector, power walking grannie or
8 yr old schoolkid riding his bike, its ridiculous
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No of course not, they're kept behind 8' walls
The forest was shrinking daily but the trees kept voting for the axe as its handle was made of wood and they thought it was one of them.