m_right wrote:Where is Pepper spray available for purchase in Hua Hin?
I asked a while ago, as the one cannister I bought in Pattaya several years is probably no good any more. I was told that there is someplace in front of, or in the front of, the police station to buy it.
Well, I took my current pepper spray cannister into the police station and asked where I could buy another one, and was politely told to put it away and not let anyone there see me with it.
Soooo, I would also like to know where to purchase pepper spray.
m_right wrote:Where is Pepper spray available for purchase in Hua Hin?
I asked a while ago, as the one cannister I bought in Pattaya several years is probably no good any more. I was told that there is someplace in front of, or in the front of, the police station to buy it.
Well, I took my current pepper spray cannister into the police station and asked where I could buy another one, and was politely told to put it away and not let anyone there see me with it.
Soooo, I would also like to know where to purchase pepper spray.
3rd floor Market Village, go up the back escalator towards cinema, in front of escalator on 3rd flr there's a big toy shop, behind that a lighter/weapons shop. They have it.
Arcadian wrote:Would the decision to cull dogs be because it is a Moslem country and Thailand is Buddhist and therefore not done to kill creatures?
No, most Thais actually dislike rodent dogs as much as anyone else does, but they just can't be bothered doing anything about the problem. I think it all boils down to the "mai pen rai" way of life.....lol.
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Arcadian wrote:Would the decision to cull dogs be because it is a Moslem country and Thailand is Buddhist and therefore not done to kill creatures?
No, most Thais actually dislike rodent dogs as much as anyone else does, but they just can't be bothered doing anything about the problem. I think it all boils down to the "mai pen rai" way of life.....lol.
A little research into the island(s) named in Jimbob's post on page 2 indicates that they also are Buddhist with some Hindu, much the same as Bali which is only 12 miles away. They don't seem to have a problem with culling dogs. I think mai pen rai is about right concerning the situation here, unless of course one of their darlings gets bitten, then watch the poison fly. Pete
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Anybody know how effective a wrist rocket (fancy slingshot) is in convincing dogs that the human they're barking at/advancing on/threatening is the alpha dog and they'd better cut that crap out right now? A shot aimed at the ground a yard in front of their hind quarters would either hit them with a rebounded, and thus slowed, projectile or with a shower of stuff displaced by the projectile.
People say they carry sticks while walking for defense against dogs. How's that work out? Can't remember ever seeing a dog stupid enough to get out of the way of something being swung at him, or not coming right back afterwards.
I always carry a long staff now when walking the dog. Thai dogs seem to know, perhaps instinctively, it's purpose. It acts as a detterent, and they stay much further away than when I was without it.
People say they carry sticks while walking for defense against dogs. How's that work out? Can't remember ever seeing a dog stupid enough to get out of the way of something being swung at him, or not coming right back afterwards.
I've seen even small Thai children get rid of stray dogs with thin bamboo canes by whacking them about the nose. Perhaps the dog struggles to see a fast moving cane and gets confused by where the sharp pain is coming from.
I think pepper spray is a good response to a genuine dog attack as long as people aren't going to wander around spraying the stuff at every dog that barks at them a bit but I've never felt the need for it. Personally I wouldn't have a house in Hua Hin if I felt I needed to carry any kind of weapons to go out of the door.
Around here there are some very well behaved cow dogs who are neutered. Makes sense when they have to work not go chasing bitches (...hmmm!). I wish neutering dogs was more prevalent as although feral dogs have a very short life span too many pups are born to replace them! They have an even shorter lifespan when the farmers put poison down! Unfortunately well cared for pets also fall prey to this method of population control. I don't think Thais generally are necessarily cruel but I do think they are careless of life (dog or otherwise?). Budhism may play a part. The path set etc etc.
When farangs started to come to this village, Thais would bring their unwanted pups and dump them in the area thinking the Farang would feed them - we didn't. Very sad but what can you do? Bending as if to pick up a stone usually gets the mutt to go in the opposite direction, finding one and throwing it usually works too. But I wouldn't like to do that if a dog was seriously going for me!
Many dogs get taken to a nearby temple. They are all over the road outside sleeping in the cool at night. The numbers will build and build over a few months (lots of horn honking to get them to move while we drive past) then suddenly they all disappear. Peace reigns until they start being dumped again. Do the monks cull them? I can't imagine so as buddhists. Who does then? Is it a local administration responsibility? Does anyone know?
In our village the phuyai put up signs banning the dumping of unwanted dogs. It was getting crazy.
I have also seen an advert on Thai TV which seems to promote responsible dog ownership. I don't think it has worked yet.
Best advice in my opinion walk around your village at night carry a stick and use it if needed
not something i like as an animal lover' i have also been chased by dogs while riding around the dirt sois on a moped even biting the back wheel whilst trying to get traction and grip.
Something i wrote on here a long time ago Dawn poo poo it was i perchased a couple of lazer pens from Tesco lotus and yes they do work as a distraction very very well.
Kendo.
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I don't know about elsewhere, but in HH the Tessabaan hold free clinics from time to time where people can take their dogs to get them cut, but I think most people can't be bothered since the soi dogs don't actually belong to them. Those who do own pure breed dogs also don't want to get their dogs fixed since they see them as an opportunity to make money. On several occasions I've been met by some very strange looks when the locals discover neither of my dogs are able to breed. After all, a litter of Rottweiler pups can make them a tidy sum.
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Takiap wrote:...... I've been met by some very strange looks when the locals discover neither of my dogs are able to breed. After all, a litter of Rottweiler pups can make them a tidy sum.
Same for us. We've had a lot of contractors here this year and we make a point to tell them our male and female Golden Retrievers have both been fixed, just in case they have any idea about a midnight raid on the kennel. Pete
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To those that said 'build a fence' - would you go to all of that expense to keep rats out or would you spend a couple of hundred baht on poison? No, I shall not spend thousands on fencing.
Superjerk, thanks for singling me out and enquiring about my dog problem - which I have now solved without resorting to enclosing myself in a hideous concrete fortress. Now why don't you post something constructive on this thread about dealing with dangerous dogs that nearly all of us that live here have suffered or fck off back to the obsessive nutters affairs section where you seem to be more at home.[/quote]
I think everyone has given you sound advice. You seem to have a bee in your bonnet about obsessive nutters Seems to me that there is only one obsessive nutter posting mad suggestions on this subject that is "Gun slinger Mike"
For some reason you have concluded that anyone who likes dogs is a nutter. It distresses me to see Soi dogs in bad health, hungry, full of disease, wild and dangerous. I would hope that "decent" people would want to have them culled in a humane manner...that it all...no more. I suppose people who choose to live in Thailand knew there were there when they came out, it has been an on going problem which the Thai people will not address.
I am all for pepper sprays, sticks for protection and any other form of legal way of protecting yourself. What I am against is trigger happy nutters who take the law into their own hands.
If you have that gun in your concrete fortress, try shooting it at some trees for practice I certainly do not hug them, as I am sure a lot of people who have replied to this subject don't hug them as well. The only tree issues that I am against is the stripping out of rainforests and turning beautiful places like Thailand into concrete monstrosities Now off topic, sorry.
I suggest you get your facts right and stop being offensive
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...
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?
Seems to me that there is only one obsessive nutter posting mad suggestions on this subject that is "Gun slinger Mike" 
I certainly do not hug them, as I am sure a lot of people who have replied to this subject don't hug them as well. The only tree issues that I am against is the stripping out of rainforests and turning beautiful places like Thailand into concrete monstrosities 
