יום שבת, יולי 23, 2005
Taken from the Official Website of Dept of Veterinary Services of Perak
"Kita ada aduan untuk tembak anjing. Engkau boleh repot kepada sesiapa, saya tak peduli."
-- D*mn YOU B*st**D's! I don't care if you're a Bumi and Muslim! YOu have NO RIGHT whatsoever to take a life of an innocent animal belonging to somebody else! Does the Qu'ran teach You FREAKS to kill what doesn't belong to you?!--
No need for trigger-happy enforcement
I AM a directly affected party in the recent shooting of a young dog in tmy compound.
I live in the Veterinary Research Institute's institutional bungalow with a perimeter fence and a reasonably large compound. Naturally I free my dogs outside to answer the calls of nature.
Apparently the office had called the Ipoh City Hall enforcement unit to help in the control of strays terrorising the sheep and goats in the designated places at the back of the institute. The strays will definitely not be near the residences, and they come out only at night.
It is commendable that the enforcement unit responded immediately. A team consisting of six arrived at 8.30am on Feb 1.
However, instead of asking the complainant for the place of the strays, the enforcement team falsely concluded that any dog in the compound of the institute was a stray. Little did they realise that the dogs could be pets.
They shot my pedigree German Shepherd/Golden Retriever (10 days short of her seventh month) named Lucie twice, once in the throat and once in the abdomen.
Hearing the shots and its yelping, my wife and daughter rushed out and Lucie collapsed in my wife's arms.
On being informed I rushed back to the house. I was in a state of shock. When I asked what happened, the head of the unit loudly, defiantly and arrogantly shouted at me, "Kita ada aduan untuk tembak anjing. Engkau boleh repot kepada sesiapa, saya tak peduli."
I rushed Lucie to the veterinary clinic. In spite of the two shots Lucie did not die immediately. She suffered, gasping for breath and died 45 minutes later.
I would like to highlight another incident in Ipoh a couple of years ago. Two strays in the canteen of a leading school were caught by the enforcement unit, brought to the field and shot in front of hundreds of students and teachers. The students and teachers just stared in disbelief and shock. Just visualise the trauma in young minds.
It is heartening to note that the Datuk Bandar of Ipoh has taken a personal interest in the case. We are striving to be called a masyarakat penyayang (caring society). Incidents like these will relegate us to a trigger-happy community.
In formulating the Animal Ordinance I feel the two major veterinary institutions in Ipoh, viz., the Perak State Veterinary Services and the VRI should be consulted.
The rules and regulations stipulated in the current ordinance are all in favour of the enforcers. One states a dog with a licence but without the owner can be shot dead.
In such cases would it not be rational to catch the dog and place it in a pound for, say, about four days? The owner would come looking for his/her animal at which time he/she could be fined and asked to pay for the upkeep of the dog in the pound.
After this period the animal can be put to sleep in a humane manner, i.e., by lethal injection. If proprietary euthanasia drugs are expensive, a saturated solution of magnesium sulphate can be used. The cost of this chemical is a fraction of guns and bullets.
There are trained veterinary officers whol will be willing to put dogs to sleep in a humane manner. It is proposed that shooting be used only in the control of ferocious and uncontrollable dogs.
The shooter should be trained. One shot should be enough. The animals should not suffer and die. Lucie's tragic death should not be wasted.
Dr S.Chandrasekaran
Ipoh
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-- D*mn YOU B*st**D's! I don't care if you're a Bumi and Muslim! YOu have NO RIGHT whatsoever to take a life of an innocent animal belonging to somebody else! Does the Qu'ran teach You FREAKS to kill what doesn't belong to you?!--
No need for trigger-happy enforcement
I AM a directly affected party in the recent shooting of a young dog in tmy compound.
I live in the Veterinary Research Institute's institutional bungalow with a perimeter fence and a reasonably large compound. Naturally I free my dogs outside to answer the calls of nature.
Apparently the office had called the Ipoh City Hall enforcement unit to help in the control of strays terrorising the sheep and goats in the designated places at the back of the institute. The strays will definitely not be near the residences, and they come out only at night.
It is commendable that the enforcement unit responded immediately. A team consisting of six arrived at 8.30am on Feb 1.
However, instead of asking the complainant for the place of the strays, the enforcement team falsely concluded that any dog in the compound of the institute was a stray. Little did they realise that the dogs could be pets.
They shot my pedigree German Shepherd/Golden Retriever (10 days short of her seventh month) named Lucie twice, once in the throat and once in the abdomen.
Hearing the shots and its yelping, my wife and daughter rushed out and Lucie collapsed in my wife's arms.
On being informed I rushed back to the house. I was in a state of shock. When I asked what happened, the head of the unit loudly, defiantly and arrogantly shouted at me, "Kita ada aduan untuk tembak anjing. Engkau boleh repot kepada sesiapa, saya tak peduli."
I rushed Lucie to the veterinary clinic. In spite of the two shots Lucie did not die immediately. She suffered, gasping for breath and died 45 minutes later.
I would like to highlight another incident in Ipoh a couple of years ago. Two strays in the canteen of a leading school were caught by the enforcement unit, brought to the field and shot in front of hundreds of students and teachers. The students and teachers just stared in disbelief and shock. Just visualise the trauma in young minds.
It is heartening to note that the Datuk Bandar of Ipoh has taken a personal interest in the case. We are striving to be called a masyarakat penyayang (caring society). Incidents like these will relegate us to a trigger-happy community.
In formulating the Animal Ordinance I feel the two major veterinary institutions in Ipoh, viz., the Perak State Veterinary Services and the VRI should be consulted.
The rules and regulations stipulated in the current ordinance are all in favour of the enforcers. One states a dog with a licence but without the owner can be shot dead.
In such cases would it not be rational to catch the dog and place it in a pound for, say, about four days? The owner would come looking for his/her animal at which time he/she could be fined and asked to pay for the upkeep of the dog in the pound.
After this period the animal can be put to sleep in a humane manner, i.e., by lethal injection. If proprietary euthanasia drugs are expensive, a saturated solution of magnesium sulphate can be used. The cost of this chemical is a fraction of guns and bullets.
There are trained veterinary officers whol will be willing to put dogs to sleep in a humane manner. It is proposed that shooting be used only in the control of ferocious and uncontrollable dogs.
The shooter should be trained. One shot should be enough. The animals should not suffer and die. Lucie's tragic death should not be wasted.
Dr S.Chandrasekaran
Ipoh
Taken from: http://www.jphpk.gov.my/English/Feb2001%209C.htm
More at: http://www.jphpk.gov.my/English/Feb2001%203A.htm
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