800 dogs less to eat for the Viets

Thai navy rescues 800 dogs from smugglers

Bangkok, Jan 12 (IANS) - Thai navy officials Thursday rescued over 800 dogs when they were about to be smuggled via the Mekong river to neighbouring Laos.
A Mekong river patrol unit headed by Captain Thirakiart Thong-aram found the dogs in 40 cases on a truck on the river bank in Ban Paeng district of Nakhon Panom province, Xinhua reported citing The Nation online.

The Mekong flows through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.

Thai police save dogs from dinner tables

Traffickers, who round up stray dogs and barter for pets in rural Thailand, can receive up to $33 per dog in Vietnam (AFP/File, Hoang Dinh Nam)

Sunday, August 14, 2011
AFP

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BANGKOK — Thai authorities have rescued more than a thousand dogs, which were found stuffed into tiny cages and being smuggled out of the country to be cooked and eaten in Vietnam, according to officials.

Police intercepted four trucks stacked high with crates packed with the animals in an operation on Thursday evening in Nakhon Phanom province in northeastern Thailand near the border with Laos.

A Nakhon Phanom livestock development official said 1,011 dogs were being held in a government shelter after two separate raids in Nathom and Si Songkhram districts.

She said an additional 119 had died either through suffocation in the cramped cages or when they were thrown from the back of the trucks as the alleged traffickers sped away from arresting officers.

Now you know why there's almost no dog left in Nom Benh - By Anonymous

[KI-Media Note: Maybe after all the dogs are gone, it will be the turn of CPP party members?]

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