(MY) killing of 13 dogs

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Answer to Joan Barrett's letter

 

 

Legal action over dog massacre - Malaysiakini.com online website

Dr Jon S Satyamoorthy

Aug 11, 06 3:10pm

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We would like to make a clarification to your reader in New Zealand, Joan

Barrett, who wrote the letter *Dog slaughter a brutal

act<http://www.malaysiakini.com/letters/54898>

* regarding Eng Her Sun whose 13 dogs in Seremban were shot dead by the

local council recently.

 

Eng was not an animal hoarder as assumed by Barrett.

 

(Animal hoarding or collecting is a situation when a pet owner goes

overboard and possesses more than he or she can actually care for. In such

cases, the animal suffers abuse by not being cared for properly or fed and

the authorities have to come in and rescue the animals from the owner. The

owner himself usually does not realise that the pets are really being abused

by him. Such persons are in need of psychiatric intervention.)

 

When Marpo met up with Eng and his elderly sister, we pleasantly discovered

that his dogs were in the best of health and had made regular trips to the

local vet which were verified by the latter.

 

All his dogs were neutered. According to Eng, he had tried to relocate his

dogs many times but failed to get support from others. This has also been

independently confirmed.

 

Marpo believes that the local council should have offered more support to

help Eng relocate his dogs instead of killing them. After all, though

misguided, Eng did do a kind deed for the local neighbourhood and the

council by taking the animals off the streets where they would have been

more of a nuisance to more people.

 

Marpo has joined forces with other animal NGOs to form the Coalition Against

Dog-Shooting and All Inhumane Methods (Casim) to help Eng and others like

him who have become victims of an uncaring society.

 

Casim is initiating legal action against those responsible for the massacre.

 

 

*The writer is the protem president for the Malaysian Association for

Responsible Pet Ownership (Marpo).*