Business booming for the dog smugglers of the Mekong

 

Business booming for the dog smugglers of the Mekong

 

In any other country when it is New Year’s it is a time for a new beginning and a happy moment but unfortunately that does not happen for the innocent dogs.  In Thailand when it is Chinese New Year’s dog smugglers have this cultural tradition where they kill many dogs to be serve as dinner for the family. The dogs are either stolen or found in an alley by dog smugglers of the Mekong. What they also do with the poor dogs is trade them with other people.  

The dogs are considered to be warming food during the winter as well as good luck to Vietnam. The floods that have been going on in Thailand have been easy targets to capture dogs that are loose and lost. The trading of dogs is considered illegal in Thailand and it is reported that around 50,000 dogs are being sold across the Mekong every year. When the dogs before arriving to Vietnam have died either of suffocation or starvation but the ones that were alive were beaten to death or skinned alive.

This in our countries eyes is being seen as a subculture because what they are doing is in between their group and it is illegal as well. There are people in Thailand that do not approve of this and luckily there still good love animal people out there where they rescue the dogs. There was Thai navy patrol that rescued 800 dogs that were wired inside 40 cages. "This is not about whether it is right or wrong to eat dog meat," Dalley says. "It is about an illegal trade worth millions of dollars per year organized by criminals. This very cruel and should be stopped immediately and Thailand should take action into stopping these poor dogs misery. No living breathing human or animal should suffer like this!

 http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/24/world/asia/thailand-dogs/index.html?hpt=ias_t3 

-CINDY IRINEO