hi guys,
I am not too sure if you peeps have been reading the newspapers, but a dog catching competition is held in Selayang(Malaysia) and will be on going for the next 6 months.
I find it so disturbing, insane and barbaric. There isnt much i can do but to extend this news to as many ppl as possible, hoping more will join me in the petition for this act of cruelty.
you can also read it from the star news paper : http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/9/6/nation/18796676&sec=nation
These dogs will be heavily beaten, abused, tortured and finally put to sleep in a cruel way. Anddo you think that truly only stray dogs will be captured? it's RM 20 per dog and a total reward of RM 15,000. Isnt it obvious that this will encourage abduction and stealing opf pets?
Please share this with your friends and family and extend it out to as many as possible, let the other countries look at how beautiful Malaysia truly is. barbarians.
Please read the article below :
Thursday, 6 Sep 2007
If there was an award for ideas that have been carried out BEFORE much thought was given to it, then the Dog Catching Competition organised by the Majlis Perbandaran Selayang, will take top honours.If you had to do a double take on that last comment, please be advised that, it is not a typo mistake or a joke. When the news report broke in the Sin Chew Jit Poh newspaper on Tuesday with a picture of councilman Dato Tang See Hang officiating the ceremony, and after people had time to translate it, there was a public outcry over the competition, that some quarters have called ‘barbaric.’
And rightly so because there is so much more negativity that will arise from this campaign than any positive that the municipal council had mistakenly hoped to generate. A check on the MPS website revealed that the municipal council is serious in running and carrying out the campaign, where lucrative prize money was being offered to enforcement officers and members of the Selayang public who could catch the most dogs!
They are offering RM15,000 to the top dog catcher (with 150 dogs or more in a period of 6 months to be eligible), and for those who don’t make the top three prizes, they are offering RM20 per dog.Imagine how much more useful RM39,000 would be towards an education programme towards neutering animals, and how much more effective such a programme would be in the long run as opposed to the quick fix, short-term catch the dogs campaign being carried out.And what becomes of the dogs once they have been caught?
According to the MPS site they will be held for two weeks for owners to come claim them. And what happens after the two weeks. The dogs will be put down.During that two weeks when say over-zealous dog catchers, hungry for the prize money bring in all these dogs. How will they be fed, where will they be kept, what sort of conditions will they be kept in?I can understand that the MPS receives more than 80 complaints about stray dogs, and something needed to be done. But is this the solution when the MPS has said that they managed to catch 200 dogs every month, but the problem is not solved. So the solution is to catch more dogs. Is this really a brilliant plan?
Bloggers and animal lovers, independent pet rescuers and the SPCA have all been alerted to the situation and the initial cry is foul. Notes From Venus will continue to report and update readers on what can be done. We’re are going to try and make concerted effort to ensure that your voices, complaints and opinions on the matter will be heard.
Do spread the word, send in your comments and we will keep all our readers informed with more updates daily. In the meantime, here are points of contention brought up on the issue by animal lovers.- For a dog, to be caught or even the action of being “hunted, trapped and chased after” by “hunters possessed” feverishly trying to loop its neck is already traumatizing and very frightening to its small heart.
Why promote further mental and physical cruelties to nonhumans by introducing a contest for the mightiest dogcatcher? Selayang will be transformed into a huge circus ring with its ringmasters trying to “out-catch” each other. It is distasteful to turn dog catching into a sport and make a game out of it! - Humans brought about the existence of strays. Strays breed too easily. These on-going contests will never nip the problem at its bud. MPS should make it compulsory to de-sex EVERY dog in every household in Selayang so that even owned male dogs do not impregnate female strays.
Why reward the follies of mankind due to their past inabilities to prevent the mushrooming of strays? It is, in short, human wrongs that need managing, not the “crop” of animals. - The mind-boggling great cash prizes would only bring about greedy ideas and feelings into already greedy human hearts. Every dog catching tool or trick (self constructed or otherwise) under the sun would be commissioned to catch the poor strays so as to reach the quota of 150 dogs or more. No humane considerations will be accorded to the captured strays.
In their mangled or unimaginable post-capture state, they still need to be “diserahkan hidup-hidup kepada urus setia pertandingan untuk pengiraan/audit. Gambar setiap ekor tangkapan juga hendaklah dikemukakan sebagai bukti tangkapan.” (editor’s note: a direct quote from the MPS website) - “Tangkapan boleh dilaksanakan sama ada oleh Jawatankuasa Penduduk sendiri atau dengan menggunakan bantuan pihak-pihak tertentu.” (editor’s note: a direct quote from the MPS website) Are we to witness a new breed of amateur dogcatchers at 2pm on 04092007? Will Selayang residents rope in their “dog catching counterparts” in neighbouring districts or states, related to them or otherwise, just to win the lion’s share of the cash prizes? Not all dogcatchers, amateurs or veterans, are experts and dog catch responsibly or use tools or tricks that exhibit their “humane” concern for animals, in this case which non-presence of this humane concern factor is strong suspect.
Are the animals to experience a slow, agonizing death as a result of a poorly executed tool or trick? We already abhorred present day dog catching techniques by councils and their contractors but accepted them grudgingly and somewhat unwillingly as a means to control strays WHATMORE when they are done amateurishly now? - “Tangkapan dilaksanakan tanpa menjejaskan undang-undang kecil 10(2)(a) Undang-undang Kecil Pelesenan Anjing dan Rumah Pembiakan Anjing (MPS) 2005.” (editor’s note: a direct quote from the MPS website) Who’s to properly monitor and supervise to make certain sure that the above are adhered to especially in the overzealous throes of catching dogs? Will hapless strays from other areas/non participants be passed up as Selayang strays to reach the quota? This too encourages dog thefts, which are already rampant. Unscrupulous individuals will “breed strays” as “pertandingan akan berjalan sepanjang masa.”
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