From "Letters", "Malaysiakini"
Parimalawani Muthiah May 8, 08 4:15pm
Put a stop to madcap dog-catching antics
I refer to the letter Urgent need for dog-pounds.
Personally I am sick to the stomach and fed-up with the antics of these animals in the guise of human beings who feel nothing when subjugating dogs to much suffering and pain.
I have also been told by Klang municipal council workers that caught dogs are kept in a 'caged-up' lorry without food or water from the time they are captured until they are cruelly executed.
There was also an occasion in Telok Panglima Garang, which comes under the jurisdiction of the Kuala Langat District Council, when I confronted a group of dog catchers trying to steal two dogs tied-up in someone's backyard.
The men, who were traveling in a council vehicle accompanied by two council officers, were themselves rounded-up to go on the dog-catching spree.
Some of them looked like drug addicts and alcoholics and had no qualms about trespassing into private property to steal the two dogs.
Upon confrontation, the officers quickly apologised and sped off with their sorry bunch of canine bounty hunters.
And of course Leigh's mention of the MPAJ also brings to mind JAD Enterprise which was engaged by the council to round-up stray dogs some years ago.
Many of the dogs which were caught by the canine bounty hunting company had suffocated to death after being locked-up in a van.
All these unfortunate incidents as well as the cruelty shown by local councils towards dogs arise because some people believe that they score heavenly points whenever they torture and put a dog to death.
I hope that the new Pakatan Rakyat government in Selangor would put an immediate stop to the cruel madcap dog catching antics practiced by the local councils in the state.
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