Siani wrote:
I suggest you get your facts right and stop being offensive [/color]
So amusing to see the same few people that have nothing better to do than selectively quote previous things I wrote and chase me around this forum like a pack of soi dogs.
Daaaamn I must have touched a few nerves..., now where are my bullets
Siani wrote:
I suggest you get your facts right and stop being offensive [/color]
So amusing to see the same few people that have nothing better to do than selectively quote previous things I wrote and chase me around this forum like a pack of soi dogs.
Daaaamn I must have touched a few nerves..., now where are my bullets
Well OM it seems you may have got us all wrong too...you say just a few...but there are more than that who do not want to just shoot the dogs. I think probably like you that they should be controlled, but there are ways and means maybe?
I hope you have sorted out your problems, nothing worse...but the suggestion of the pepper spray is a good one...may come in handy for that stroll on the beach as well Just do not think that all animal friendly people are freaks Hopefully you are not the bad guy you make out to be
Thais are known to be quite entreprenurial and to grab any opportunity that will yield money. It beats me why someone in Hua Hin have not long time ago set up a dawg catching business. They could make fortunes catching soi dawgs and selling them to dawg eating areas in Thailand, Cambodia, VietNam, China. Free advice.
hhfarang wrote:Generally, I have to say that I like more of the soi dogs I've met here than most of the soi expats I've met here...
Amen to that
Me too
RICHARD OF LOXLEY
It’s none of my business what people say and think of me. I am what I am and do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. It makes life so much easier.
hhfarang wrote:Generally, I have to say that I like more of the soi dogs I've met here than most of the soi expats I've met here...
Amen to that
Me too
I don't know where you people hang out since the expats I know here are all very respectable people, but I guess, it's as the saying goes........birds of a feather flock together.
Don't try to impress me with your manner of dress cos a monkey himself is a monkey no less - cold fact
I was just at a wedding in chumporn and got up real early to go take some shots of the sunrise from our hotel. I go outside to the wall lining the beach and this pack of dogs start circling me and i was worried needless to say theres me bare foot camera in shorts and a tee. Then a white dog not the biggest nor the smallest walks by the pack and sits by my feet and the pack backs off but for the larger dog who keeps growling and the white one snarls at him and he moves off. I was glad to have this white saviour in the grass at my feet and he stayed there till just after sunrise then trotted off. My wife says he was a ghost dog that came to protect me. Who knows but I was sure glad he was there. ..A side bar to all this was I complained to the hotel that day and the management said..(They are not our dogs so it is not our problem)
Interesting story ....the battle of good against evil manifests itself when least expected. I would think the white one kicked arse at one point in the past and has the hotel/beach area as his turf. If he's a friendly one I'm sure he gets some choice tidbits from the hotel kitchen staff as well. Pete
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Pete you A man that is grounded..I do not disagree with you in the least..Maybe in the past the white one had shown the rest he was the boss. I never tried to pat him as he curled up at my feet as I know better but as I said they were a motley crew and he seem to make them reconsider and action towards me which I am greatful for. I should have been smarter and what did i expect when going outside at 5 a.m in a strange area.. They had run of the area or so it seemed their turf not mine. But at the time very nerve wracking.
I would think the white one kicked arse at one point in the past and has the hotel/beach area as his turf.
I prefer to believe the protector ghost dog story...
Did you get a photo (or try to) of this benevolent apparition?
My brain is like an Internet browser; 12 tabs are open and 5 of them are not responding, there's a GIF playing in an endless loop,... and where is that annoying music coming from?
See at the time I never thougth of taking my protectors picture..I was thinking sunraise get good shot..And you right should have been getting a pic of my hero..Ahh hind sight is a wondeful thing.
TingTongJohn: your hero is very mobile, In October 2010 I took this picture of him as I snuck past some soi dogs in Chiang Mai early one morning. I thought he was giving a sermon to the lower dogs.
Rider wrote:I'm in a part of the built-up urban area that, at nightfall especially has a serious dog problem.
The locals will not address the situation so you're on your own when the dogs run loose!
I was setting out this night into the heart of the city to meet an old friend who was flying out to Europe the following morning.
Anyway, at dusk on leaving the apartment, which is nearly a kilometer from the main road, up some quiet and deserted side-streets the dog pack are out and about.
The night previous I'd heard them tearing into a cat (I think the cat got away).
Anyway I'm turning the corner and there's about 5 of them.
Not massive, nor tiny. They are the feral dog size and the pack leader is a brown mutt that's mean and arrogant.
It's barking like crazy at a gateway which has another dog behind it, barking like mad at each other.
I see this and think 'I'll use that as a distraction' and increase my pace.
As I do so two of the top-dog's underlings (some white-greyish mutts) wander over towards me.
By now the pepper spray I bought at a local market is out of the EDC and in my hand with my thumb on the trigger.
I'm not out for spraying whilly nilly so let them pass by as they don't pose a threat.
So far so good.
Then, maybe out of scent, who knows, the top dog turns from it's bark-competition with the gate dog and heads over to me.
It's obviously trying to look good and fancy's a piece.
Instead of standing off and barking it closes the range down to about 4 feet and makes for an attack.
I'm ready and it get's a blast!
Now, even though this is the tropic's I'm in, the wind was breezy and took the bite out of the spray jet.
Meaning only the fringes of it caught the head area. Also the spray was weak only 4 feet if that. (partly why it didn't strike the creature full on too I'd say)
I'm walking on by as I do this btw.
It's barking dropped off dramatically, almost to whimpers.
I sprayed again, once out of range, worrying I'd bought a deficient canister This time it managed about 6-8 feet.
Meanwhile the top dog is sneezing and very much confused with what's just buzzed it's nose and face!
I continued up the side-street and make the main road without issue and go meet up with my buddy
A bit of the residue from the nozzle had dripped onto my right hand and despite my best efforts I got a bit on me, which was quite irritating, but nowhere near that which the dog's getting I'll wager.
After some drinks in the city centre I tell my tale to my friend, imagining that's the end of it.
Well, how wrong I was, on my return, several drinks later, the dog pack is waiting!
They'd managed to chase out one of the nice guard dogs and isolate it at my end of the side-street (main road side). It's tail is up but it's unfazed. Neither was I that much (thanks to the pepper spray).
This dog's ok and I pass it by, facing me is brown top-dog from before.
It's a bit wary now and I give it some shouts and harsh words.
As I move nearer I give it a little false rush and it scuttles away a bit then stops before doing the same.
I make my left turn towards the apartment and now all four of it's cohorts are there lined up on one side of the street.
It wasn't the brown-mutt that made the charge but one of the white dogs.
It obviously fancied it's chances of becoming the new leader.
The peppers-spray was out again by now of course I gave it a burst. Wisely it scuttled back before it could reach, these things learn fast folks
So that's my first time of using a pepper spray in anger. It probably won't be the last. I can hear the mangy mutt's barking around outside two floors below as I type.
Lesson's learned:
On buying pepper spray give it a shake and a test spray, just to get it 'primed'. For some reason mine wasn't at full 'performance' on initial firing.
Just after spraying be aware of the residue / drips that trickle down the canister.
It's not a big deal but might irritate you if you touch your skin with your spray hand.
Oh and I'm glad I was carrying something, as hippy love and vibes only go so far with such beasts...
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Hopefully you are not the bad guy you make out to be 
....the battle of good against evil manifests itself when least expected. 
