I tell dog owners around me who feel guilty that their dog is alone for 5 hours or whatever: Your dog is incredibly spoiled and lives a very good life that most dogs don’t get to live. He’s fine being alone for 5 hours. Go to SE Asia and you’ll come back feeling like the best dog owner in the whole world and that your dog lives like a king.
Ye, same for cats as well, though they tend to fare better in terms of “village” care, in that the people living in the area will care for the cat together.
The issue is lack of vet care and lack of neutering/spaying. Once that becomes for available and frequent there won’t be so much of an issue.
Visiting SE Asia is really sad when you’re an animal lover, seeing the harsh reality of the average dog out there is hard to ignore, and far too big a problem for the individual to fix, so it’s a helpless, hopeless feeling as well.
If I ever hit it rich, I’m setting up spay/neuter clinics in that area, along with skin treatment clinics. I’ll send teams out to tranquilize and treat the wild dogs and cats and neuter them.
All over, really. I saw it personally in Thailand and Indonesia, but I’ve had friends say they see the same thing in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam as well. :( it’s just a very sad part of visiting that area.
I tell dog owners around me who feel guilty that their dog is alone for 5 hours or whatever: Your dog is incredibly spoiled and lives a very good life that most dogs don’t get to live. He’s fine being alone for 5 hours. Go to SE Asia and you’ll come back feeling like the best dog owner in the whole world and that your dog lives like a king.
is this the same for cat owners 👀
Ye, same for cats as well, though they tend to fare better in terms of “village” care, in that the people living in the area will care for the cat together.
The issue is lack of vet care and lack of neutering/spaying. Once that becomes for available and frequent there won’t be so much of an issue.
Visiting SE Asia is really sad when you’re an animal lover, seeing the harsh reality of the average dog out there is hard to ignore, and far too big a problem for the individual to fix, so it’s a helpless, hopeless feeling as well.
If I ever hit it rich, I’m setting up spay/neuter clinics in that area, along with skin treatment clinics. I’ll send teams out to tranquilize and treat the wild dogs and cats and neuter them.
Where in SEA?
All over, really. I saw it personally in Thailand and Indonesia, but I’ve had friends say they see the same thing in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam as well. :( it’s just a very sad part of visiting that area.
with cats you can trivially just get 2 of them and that avoids 90% of the risk of boredom and loneliness